splashandburn

Anyone done a swap from Bravo to surface drives? What issues - handling, performance, etc. - have you run into the most?

dsmawd350

Probably need to be more specific with the boat. Single engine or twins, cat or v bottom, notched transom or not. There's a ton of factors

Tinkerer

I just turned my Bravo drive into a surface drive. The bullet is just on top of the water at speed.

splashandburn

Twin engine V bottom set up on a heavy hull.

splashandburn

How did you do that? Shorties?

green lightning

I converted my boat from bravos to arneson surface drives , handling was the same , performance i gained over 10mph , took a bit to learn how to get it on plan , the only problem that I ran into was the lack of used props in my range that I wanted to try and test

green lightning

I also just finished my 3rd season with no drive problems , I could never say that when I ran the bravos

Moorings4004

I am in the process of converting from Bravos to Arnesons also. I am going through the same problem with finding props to test before I purchase. How were you able to solve your problem of finding props to test ?

splashandburn

what boat are you running them on? What were the planning issues? What size prop are you running? I've heard the larger the diameter the better.

green lightning

I have a older 35 straight bottom fountain , you can't ease it up on plan like i could with the bravos , my current props are 5 blade 18x31x20rake ,I think my props are a 1/2" to big in dia