has anyone put any big CI engines into a 357 sr1? and if so what kind of speed were you getting? did you have to change drives to accomidate the bigger HP?

a friend of mine had a 86 357, he put a set of 572's in built by herb stottler of florida. the were roughly 700 and change horsepower. he saw mid eighty's. outdrives were kaamas though. that was a beautiful boat other than the fact it was so heavy.

Anything like this:
KAAMA 357

http://www.offshoreonlyclassifieds.c...-o9769-en.html

if this ad is at all accurate, this fella may have some first hand insight as to what to expect with big inches, it says original owner,

thanks for the help I am still running the stock TRS drives and have been told they should handle up to 700 HP. surface drives would have been nice.

I have an 86 357. I bought the boat with bravos. We put 468s with B&M 250s. We did not dyno it but a similar set up in a friend's boat made roughly 650 Hp. I have seen 80 mph on gps but it will run 70 all day long.

Where do you splash that monster

lake winni, conneticut, lake george, lake champlain

I see you don't mind traveling , me neither. We do a poker run up on Sebago in July also did Rock the Bay this past Sept. I say the more the merrier , maybe we could hook up this spring.

hoping to do more boating this year. last year I went out 4 times and blew the port motor building a pair of 540ci. definetly need to try and hook up, allways up for new places to try