You actually thought Tim knew what he was talking about? Lol of course arnesons are superior in every way to TRS.

I had 3A's mounted super high X dimension, ended up being higher then 5s would be. This was on my White Top Gun. Little bit tough getting on plane inititaly if it was super rough. But once the Resin tub was on plane, Big Wheels and 1.68 gear ratio and no problems running in the rough

^Yep, those look mounted pretty high. How high above the bottom were they, and how/what props did you find that worked best all around (I understand the bigger ratio, just curious on props.) ?

It was at the marina, all you had to do was walk over and look at it.... :)

I had 2 sets because I played around with setup. At one time I had 700 HP, then I had 850 ish and then 900. So I sold the boat with 4 blade 17.625 x 30" 4 blades. I also ran with the 900s 18x 32" that were labbed 4 blades. I still believe the best setup is the biggest diameter you can have, then play with labbing or non labbing, worst thing to do is loose diameter. My opinion anyway

No concerns with Arnesons is the rough.

Rough water handling is widely known as one of the best traits of ASD's. Almost surprised by the question. Certainly they have many drawbacks, but rough water is not one of them.

Can you name the drawbacks.

Jr, you forget, between changing fuel filters and blowing up engines, I never spent that much time at the marina.

Hence, why I am working on a Saturday, to pay for another rebuild. This isn't fun anymore.....Wait, I don't get paid for Saturdays, WTF am I doing here?

This topic is laughable, almost every big race setup Mystic/MTI/Platinum/Tencara/Victory around the world runs surface drives but apparently Full Force knows more than all those guys..