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Afternmarket gears
Has anyone used aftermarket gears in a Bravo? Obviously price is a pro, any cons?
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Do they exist????? Never heard of any.
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The only aftermarket gears in existence that I have ever heard of are the Chinese lower gears they are using in the sei bravo lowers and sei doesn't advertise them (just the gears) yet , they would be a step backwards I'm sure anyways. Max Machine worx experimented with some aftermarket (lower)gears a few years ago and nothing came from it that I know of. I did very exstensive testing of different treatments to stock lower gears years ago and found some gains in life from them but everyone is still at square one with upper gears. I am in the works again with RMBUILDER to have lower gears built from a better material, I will post any results as they come available. As far as upper xr gears replacements, there has been talk but no one has ever gotten a prototype even built, too cmplicated, Smitty
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I did hear that imco will be manufacturing upper gears to compete with merc. when? i don't know
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I am working on a set of upper gears for the XR drive right now. Should know in 60 or so days if we can go into production. Very complex process to build stronger ones to fit in same space. Hoping for 25-30% stronger to handle around 750 HP and be able to live more than 25 hours !!!!!
If we are successful with the upper set, then I will start making lowers. Those are much easier to make. |
Sounds good Smitty!! Hope it works out, if so my next set of upper gears will come from you. :drink
I always said that if I hit a big time lottery I would invest a couple mil to make better bravo XR gears. It is a pretty big market for them and I know that I for one would pay more than what Merc wants for gears that would last with 800hp. |
Originally Posted by Philm
(Post 3404741)
Sounds good Smitty!! Hope it works out, if so my next set of upper gears will come from you. :drink
I always said that if I hit a big time lottery I would invest a couple mil to make better bravo XR gears. It is a pretty big market for them and I know that I for one would pay more than what Merc wants for gears that would last with 800hp. |
Originally Posted by Smitty
(Post 3403959)
I am working on a set of upper gears for the XR drive right now. Should know in 60 or so days if we can go into production. Very complex process to build stronger ones to fit in same space. Hoping for 25-30% stronger to handle around 750 HP and be able to live more than 25 hours !!!!!
If we are successful with the upper set, then I will start making lowers. Those are much easier to make. |
Originally Posted by Smitty
(Post 3403959)
I am working on a set of upper gears for the XR drive right now. Should know in 60 or so days if we can go into production. Very complex process to build stronger ones to fit in same space. Hoping for 25-30% stronger to handle around 750 HP and be able to live more than 25 hours !!!!!
If we are successful with the upper set, then I will start making lowers. Those are much easier to make. |
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