Anyone with a 90+ mph 353?
 

Wondering how well this hull handles speeds over 90 mph...
I've been having some silly ideas for my 500's

Thinkin youl'll need 650-700 a side and a pair of good drives.

Your not the first. I had over 800/side on a 382, then reduced them to about 650/side (540's, no blowers)

I'd highly recommend leaving the engines alone and spending the money on an ASD conversion. You'll spend more at first, but less in the end (unless you have a stack of drives laying around). With those drives you'll never worry about them and the boat will pickup about 10 mph! If you ever need even more speed, the drives are already done. To get 10mph with your bravos you'll spend roughly 1/2 what the ASDs cost anyway. The hull won't be a problem.

Yeah ASD's would be too much work. Going to have too keep it Bravo. 700hp with 4 blade Hydros on them should be doable.

Lake Effect is the fastest 353 I have read about. Appears to handle 100+ mph just fine.

http://www.offshoreonly.com/forums/f...-fas-tech.html

Powerboat magazine had it at just over 90 with a 600sci. I know that seems like a stretch but I thought they were reputable back in the day.

Lake effect is a buddy's boat and that thing is quick and good at hi speeds.

780 per side with XR's. I run mid 90's with a best of 97 on a perfect day.

I wouldn't say over 100 is just fine. It can be done certainly, but the skill required starts going up exponentially around 90. That's where you really need to start paying attention.

This much power through XRs require rebuilds every 3-4 seasons (or sooner) depending on how you run. I would look into Arnseon's and look into more power. I see pluses and minuses for both. Money no object, Id go with Whipples and IMCO's personally.

Where's Bad Monkey??

Thanks for posting the link...Lots of good info for me there.