And staying in the water. Start flying the boat and issues happen. Not saying it's good but that is the reality.

Comparing to cars isn't fair, they have a LOT more money for R&D and because of volume can drive the price down.

I would like to see how many failures there are on some of the performance cars out there if they install slicks and start running at the drags a LOT. Think about it, one good long day at the drag strip isn't even a hour run in good choppy water when you think how many times the boat drives can be loaded and unloaded when flying.

1. Market to small to develop a new better Bravo drive.

I don't know if its inadequate but more overpowered. Many of us are guilty, including me. Merc supplied XRs behind factory 600SCIs on our boat, boat came that way because they sell the package that way. Should have NXT or IMCO but original owner checked the cheaper box on the order. When drives fail it's my problem. Same thing with 496 Mag boats, they should have XRs , not X or Bravo. XRs on a 38 Top Gun with 525s is a perfect example, a lot of boat on drives that just can't handle the power to begin with. Running in the middle of a products service range will yield much better results than on the far reaches of it's capabilities. How many people on here build engines and just run the stock drive, then bash Bravos because they don't hold up. I will agree drive parts are very over priced, but when your the Goliath of your industry .....

There is a badass small drive company out there,adapted INDY car technology to drives, can't remember the name someone posted on OSO about them a few weeks ago. Very expensive but handle big HP and no failures. Maybe someone will chime in.


P.S. Here it is X Power http://www.xpowerdrive.com/site56/home.html

I've been running SCX's with blueprinted 1400 lowers swinging #6 wheels. It is a great setup. Just call up IMCO and order one or two.

If you were building a new boat what would get? SCX seems like the best deal. Asd 7s the next best deal. Then 6s which is what the fastest Vs still run.

I re-did my boat when I bought it so the SCX made a lot of sense. Sold my XR/imco setup for the cost of one SCX and then bought the other. Props are $9500 but the slip numbers and performance is not even close to the bravo setup. You can also run a #6 tiebar.

When I buy again if new its 400R OB's but if used I'd go #6 or #8.

Saw that don't want to run a reverse rotation motor

This is interesting anyone have an idea on the Pricing?

Padraig

Outboards ....All Day Long, then if I had to build a stern drive boat IMCO, if budget allowed X Power.