Sounds good
come meet us a falls lake Highway 50 ramp April 16 . A cigarette and a fountain will be our first outing of the year. If anyone has issues aleast their will be help.

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will pm you my phone number

Sounds like a plan!! Will shoot you my info!

Live at the lake today for her first splash for me. So far so good. 78 and sunny! I'll post up more and details later, but she's running well so far.
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Good looking boat!

So had a great time all day today. No issues at all. Confirmed a few things which was nice.

Ran it WOT a few times. 5200 at 53mph GPS. Slightly disappointing as I would have liked to have gotten closer to that 60 mark. Was basically running the tach identical to the RPM. 3300 would do about 34 as well. 4000 rpms got me about 40-42.

I know I don't know how to properly trim a boat out but was playing and got the best speed with the drive trimmed up as far as a I could then started putting the tabs down and picked up about 2mph. Thinking a Hydromotive Q4 and a 22 pitch might get me a few more. Slip right now looks to be 23% on the Apollo (Michigan Wheel) 14.5x21P. something with a little more stern lift maybe.

Overall though had a great time. Wife admitted she actually enjoyed having a cabin with the little ones and they thoroughly enjoyed it as well. Wife likes the captains chairs but I miss bolsters as I do almost all my driving standing. Oh well... Happy wife right? 😁

I definitely need that flush mounted chart plotter. Trying to keep an eye on the phone screen and navigate and drive while it falls off the dash sucks.

Overall though 80 degrees and sunny weekday at the lake beats a day at the office every time.


Quick startup and idle video for fun:

Congrats on a good “maiden voyage” today! Glad all went well!

It takes quite a bit of power to get these ole birds to move, 53 isn’t that bad for a sbc in one of these.....at least what I think.

How did it do getting on plane? The 4 blade is definitely the best prop for my setup....be nice if you could try a few different props out and takes notes on pros/cons of each to find the best one for your setup.

I know its a completely different boat BUT my F311 likes a lot of trim out and no tabs (at least that's where I'm at now).

383 that came with the 242
 

Do you have any specs the 383?

Were there HP/TQ #HPgiven?

Cam?

Heads?

Carb?

Stock SBC Merc exhaust manifolds?

One limiting factor for dual plane intakes, is they need bigger carbs to breathe. The plenum cutouts are poor solutions to the issue...as they don't flow well at all. With a true dual plenum, each bank only sees half the carb flow.

The cam and valvetrain may be setup to get more rpm out of the engine, vs the Merc specs that are really low for gas engines to perform.

23% slip is def on the high end. Have you made the calcs right with the drive ratio? Many on here with 242s should be able to suggest some good prop options.
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383s can be built to better than Merc 454 (330) torque and hp without much strain at all.