Anyone doing hole shots with there SCX drives? Someone is telling me that you have to baby these drives out of the hole?

Would like to hear from owners experiences. And what there power/boat/drive combo is and how there drives are holding up.

Trying to sort out internet myths from truths.

Thanks in adavance

Hole shots kill drives. Re-entry without matching r's is the other killer.

Buy a jet boat if you want a hole shot machine not a good idea on any drive unless you like broken ones

or a jet ski

Arneson's, then the only thing you break will be prop's.

Blue moon 36 apache hole shots often with 850-950 hp and even builds boost during the hole shot!

With SCX's or Arneson?

I hole shot all the time with the SCX-4. I do have it trimmed out too far which creates roost and doesn't load it as bad, then I bring it back in for traction and speed.
So far so good.
700HP

Drives all the way in, tabs all the way down, run it up to 4200-4300 rpm, slowly pull tabs up till she bites and goes then tabs to neutral then dive to neutral trim. this all in about minute, no problems yet been all summer! 550 hp

Really! Come on. I have owned 2 other boats one in excess of 10 years, omc stern drive,probably in excess of 10000 hole shots when I sold the boat it's probably still running somewhere. Hole shots do not kill drives, it's TORQUE.

What I'm trying to point out is that a drive needs to be matched to the size of boat and horsepower applied.

I think it would be pretty had to break a SCX on a 19 foot runabout with whatever horsepower.

What I was looking for was useful info from people that own SCX drives. IE what boat/HP/Drive combo most improtantly how they drive them.

If I spent 15k on a tranny or rear end for my 600hp mustang and it shelled it out i would not be very happy.

So if I spend 15 k on a drive for my boat 29 lavey 5500# dry single engine that has a meager 470hp and it wont take a hole shot I do not want it.

When I say hole shot I'm not talking about jamming it in gear and going straight to full throttle. I get in gear idling and then put the throttle down.