CHIEF 950's, if the drives won't take it...... get a different boat.

chit dat funny

so let me get this straight everyone seems to be in agreement go with the 500 EFI s or for how much $$$ more go with 525 EFI s ?

The 525EFI would be the Bomb :cool: Exspensive, but closed cooling and SmartCraft .... nice

Blue and warranty, close cooling and SmartCraft. They tell me that new 496HO has great throttle the last 70 to 90%. cb

YES paint the boat white, get white seats and get the 525 ITS XR drives speed master lower's good prop's. Then next year put some color on it, it is a lot easyer to get the wife/girl to want to make it look better than to make it faster.

The setup I want for you should go low to mid 90's in that boat. 496's and B1's high 70's low 80's max.

Hawk HP-600's. EFI, Merlin 3 tall deck, merlin heads, MEFI 3 injection, Prelubber, sonic water flush, Stainless exhaust, custom colors std., and.... 3 year warrantee. As featured in May's powerboat Mag. $23,455

the Hawk HP-600 dynos between 625 and 630 hp with 690 of torque.

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850-674-7474
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I faced the same decision with our 37 Active Thunder. I would have gone with the 500s if I had the dough, instead went with the HOs.

Yeah, that rhymes :)

I did upgrade to the Bravo XZ drives to be ready for upgrades later. There are a lot of upgrades coming out for the 496HO that will give you more power for less than the upgrade to the 500s.

what about Smartcraft ?