Awesome! I can't wait to see how it turns out. Good luck with the project.

Drives are ordered and should be delivered within two weeks. I'll let everyone know how it turns out. :)

Congrats! I am really excited for you! Your boat is going to be so much fun to drive now without the worry of breaking! You can stab the throttle and get air any time now. Looking forward to hearing more

Like others, I'm looking forward to hearing about your progress and results. I'm glad to hear you're not touching the power at this point, this way you'll have good before and after data!

Hey any news on this awsome project? Any guestimates on when things start to happen?

Drives should be delivered by the end of this week.

I have a Velocity 280 with a single B1 and after my rebuild I will be around 700hp. Has anyone done a B1 to Arneson on a single drive? I'm really concerned about low speed maneuvering and docking With the cam I have and a single screw it's tough enough now.

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Did you recive your drives? A few pic's of the drives and parts before install would be cool:)

There is a 28 Active Thunder with a single Arneson running a 600ci Ford engine.

I ran next to him a bit about a month or so ago, his boat got on plane very well and appeared to handle just fine. The only issue that he had was that since his boat is a straight vee he needed more bowlift than what the surface drive could offer. Still ran in the mid 80s.

With a pad bottom boat like your velocity you could get by with much less lift. I cant comment on low speed / docking with a surface drive, but cant imagine that it could be any worse than my current setup, which is just barely below the bottom, so it might as well be a surface drive.

That's what I'm afraid of. I'm having problems now with a Bravo 1 prop that won't take any trim. Mid 80's with a surface drive, I'd be crying. I'm rebuilding my NA 524 BBC and hope to be in the high 90's with my Bravo 1.