357 sr1 headed to miami!!!!
 

Sold my 357 to another oso member. Boat is leaving indiana and headed to miami tomorrow. Pablo and diego have been an absolute pleasure to deal with, good luck and have a great time with the boat. I put a ton of money,time and effort into this boat, i really hate to see her go!! Dont need 2 boats!

Come on we need pics, I saw the thread on here sounds like a nice ride it will be perfect where they boat.

Justin,

I cannot thank you enough, you were a Gentleman from beginning to end , Pablo is thrilled with the way you treated him, the communication and understanding that you had was the best you could imagine, felt same way when I bought my boat from "lil red" last year, and you know what, I guess you made 2 new friends here in Miami, at the end of the year when you come down, we will be thrilled to take you out on the ocean and have some fun, like we did when Lil Red came down.

Pablo will add his comments soon...

Thanks Oso for letting us meet great people, you all know who you are !!!

Pics coming soon by new owner.

Boat finally made it ENJOY!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have tentatively been invited on a shake down run this coming Wednesday....can't wait to see it!!

Make sure you bring the camera should be a fun day.

Closed cooling kits are going to be installed this week, still waiting... We are all desperate to put this thing on the water...

John looks like next week, let you know!!

Thanks Diego...just as well...the wind has been bad all week and will be bad again this weekend.

Good Move ......

[ATTACH=CONFIG]512573[/ATTACH] Back in the summer of 2007/2008, I was the third owner Great boat!

What a nice looking boat, it should do fine in the open ocean.

Yeah....the weather on the pat three weekends has been sucky....yet today was great....but it's friggin Monday!!!

That`s what they make half days for so get out there.:lolhit: I only have to wait another six months thats bs.

Pablo paid half of the job 3 weeks ago and they haven't even started with the installation of the closed cooling kits yet, he is getting a bit upset with these people, they are a pretty well known shop all around the country, for some reason a $ 6000 job seems to be too small to care for them. Should I mention the name...?

6000???

I don't get it!!! really that expensive?

heck ya post the name of the shop doing the work. It will either kick start them in the ass to get the job started/finished, and or help other OSO members stair clear of that shop.

Did they give him a time frame? I have waited that long on parts before so I guess that could be part of the problem?

He is installing real nice high performance kits plus changing trim indicators' cables parts alone are over $4000 plus $125/ hr labor

Parts took 10 days but still...

I understand they are busy with key west, but come on it has been 3 weeks that the boat has been sitting with no fun.

Ok apparently they finish installing close cooling kits now trim cable and boat will be done tomorrow.:evilb::thankyouthankyou:

Great...but now the Atlantic looks like a washing machine!! LOL

Boat is ready!!! Ready to take it for a ride this Wednesday !!

I don't know Diego....weather looks bad for us through the Holiday...

http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick...5#.UpKdTdKRB_E

We might get lucky with the wind coming out of the SW and the mainland knocking it down...but still it's calling for gusts in excess of 25 Knts.:cool: We shall see.

Get it out. Let is know how it goes.

Got it out last Wednesday boat handled great but we need to dial in props to spin those 509's to at least 5400.
With the bravo one 26p , we are spinning them to 4700.
These engines Dynoed over 630hp at 5800 rpm if I remember correctly

What speeds at 4700

25 p mirage +

I do have a set of 25p regular mirages that we r going to try on,then . We'll see, how it reacts to that.

Is that what you have in your 336?

need these ....

http://www.offshoreonly.com/forums/s...rage-plus.html

something here dont seem right .did someone change the props on you ???. 630 hp and only turning them 4700 will hurt the motors in the long run .how was run like this as long as it has without anyone questioning it ????

i had a 89 357 trs drives 502s w imco exhaust clay smith cams stk intakes and 800 holleys 27 mirage props spinning 5100 + and i know i had no 630 h/p

I was thinking the same thing ..... my 311 was turning 28 B1's 52-5300 .... I could run the 27 or 29 Mirage but the 28 B1 worked the best ... 600HP ....

My question would be where did you get the 630HP Number?

Diego,

According to the Prop Slip Calculator that's 15% slip...while not great isn't terrible either.

Is the 272 for sale?

The 357 is my friend's boat and I am trying to help him, get it dialed in.
now my 272 ? hey everything has a price, it has been running great since I bought it(nov 2012 ) 64 mph all day, very reliable with stainless marine and long custom risers, ( ready for a big hp bump) :evilb:

Now my friends 357 is going back to the shop tomorrow and we'll check a couple of things, I will post dyno sheets soon , engines were built by Fever Marine in Indiana, both seller and engines builder are really experienced boaters, we'll see how it develops. But I agree, it should be running a lot faster.

Power stats from 2007.
 

[ATTACH=CONFIG]513484[/ATTACH] In 2007 this boat had twin 555hp 509cu, steel head motors, aftermarket Hardin exhaust and Mallory ing. / stock bravo 1.5 drives and 24 pitch 4 blade lab props. with 100 gals and good chop boat ran 5100 rpms and was at 70 max out. At 630hp how much faster could this hull be pushed? 3-5 mph? Diego keep us posted on the numbers/stats

We are not so much above from those hp #'s since in the dyno sheets these engines are producing around 580 hp at 5100 rpm ,(peak hp was at around 5600 rpm)next step is labbing the 24p bravo 1's, also we had a windy day and 6 month old fuel ( builder told us yesterday to use only 93 octane) . I have no doubt that we can get to 70mph with some adjustments and that would make sense compared to your numbers, thanks for your post.

Have you tried mirages on the 357 ?

Attachment 513545Attachment 513544Attachment 513545Attachment 513544See the 2 attachments here showing Dyno sheets on one of the engines, it looks like at 5200 rpm we have 578HP and 583lb/Tq so 70mph should be the target with this set up.