LS Build: In Progress
06-21-2019, 01:12 PM
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I grew up in Needles CA. Hottest place in the US. Literally 125-130 normal. I got so used to it that I laughed in Iraq when I seen people whining about 110. Now I own garage door company in Phoenix. 115-120 outside. 140-160 inside where I work. Like working inside an easy bake oven. Lol.
You are a tough sum*****, Thank you for your service.!.
..sounds like where you grew up/lived helped prep you well. 
06-21-2019, 01:23 PM
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The hot weather has its advantages. The “scenery” is tip top and clothing is always optional.
07-07-2019, 09:37 PM
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Took the pig out on 4th and today. Was unable to do top speed runs with kids onboard but on 4th ran 4 blades with spacer install and 4 coolers, 6 people. Ran it to 70. Hard to get on plane but revved decently on acceleration. Today ran with spacer removed which placed drive 1” up and 5 blades. Glue to the water. Ran it at 6.5 trim and boat refused to free up. 4k rpm 60mph 21% slip. Have video of it passing my buddy but need to figure out how to upload it. Last time we ran it with 5 blades we documented 3500 at 58 @ 13% slip. Stern felt better in corners with 5 blades. Morel of the story is I am correct in my thought process of needing more bow lift. Raising the drives made it worse. Max5 15.25 here I come.
07-08-2019, 07:28 PM
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the problem is that you removed a lot of weight from the rear and now the center of gravity is too far forward so you are having to trim way too high to try to pick up the nose. the problem is that you can get in big trouble if the air does get under it. all cats are a balancing act, the air in the tunnel is trying to pick the boat up and the drives should be trying to push it back down. no cat that is balanced right should ever be trimmed above neutral and are usually down just a hair when running hard. if you have room throw a couple of bags of sand in the rear corners at the transom and see what it does. that will tell you for sure that the CG is off.
07-08-2019, 08:53 PM
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the problem is that you removed a lot of weight from the rear and now the center of gravity is too far forward so you are having to trim way too high to try to pick up the nose. the problem is that you can get in big trouble if the air does get under it. all cats are a balancing act, the air in the tunnel is trying to pick the boat up and the drives should be trying to push it back down. no cat that is balanced right should ever be trimmed above neutral and are usually down just a hair when running hard. if you have room throw a couple of bags of sand in the rear corners at the transom and see what it does. that will tell you for sure that the CG is off.
07-10-2019, 03:32 PM
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Max5 15.25 29p vs Cutting Edge 4 Blade 30p. Max5 are about 1/8 bigger. First thing to notice is blade position on barrel. They are an inch further up the barrel. Holy rake. So perty. 
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07-10-2019, 03:45 PM
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Weight difference 4 blade 13.2 lbs. max5 15.2. Not horrible. Going to test with pvs out to start
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