Originally Posted by HPJunkie

Not on que here but I did own a 25 eagle with a 598 on the test drive.....and it scared the hell out of me with uncorrectable chine walk. I put a blown 509 in it and couldnt drive thru it. (thought I could) ended up straighting up the triangle and the steps, and sharpening the transom edge to the bottom. almost completely fixed it. I could "drive it" now. At 98 mph it gyrated and almost bounced at that speed. I did try lots of things like drive spacers to increase leverage with no avail. ended up leaving it set up more for "drag" mode with lower pitch. I had 26,28,30,32. ran the 28 most of the time. tached at 6500 but was fast as hell. lost some on top ,was fun to drive. Nobody could beat that boat, even the outboards until about 90. the real ones would finally pass me. blown olds head bigblock 1300 hp on an 24htm was a loss.... I did smoke him to 93 then he was gone!! he followed back to the beach with questions. square up the bottom and prop it for driveability, use restraint and kick some ass. Not sure they are supposed to run that fast.