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iTrader: (1)

Fountain 27ho,its hard to compare a 272 baja to a 27 ft fountain,your hull is definately more effiecient. A buddy of mine in northern michigan has one and when our boats were both stock w/502's he always had 4 mph on me,we both put prochargers on them at same time and he was able to run 79 w/5psi boost where i had to run 8psi or so to run even with him. I do believe jc could run a few mph more with a 23 pitch 3 blade, i never really hear of people running 22 pitch 4's on boats like his,but much else is going to start costing him some real money,Smitty

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70.5 gps w a houston labbed 26 4 blade on my 26 larson W/ a 502EFI and stainless marines 1/2 tank gas 1/2-1' chop

nofed

I have the same boat but with a 23 mirage plus, with quarter tank of gas and three people the best I have been able to get is 66.7 on a hand held garmin GPS. I did have her trimmed up pretty good

jcimprover

I took some advice I received. I left crazy cousin eddie at home, got rid of the water skis, knee board, gas grill, and fifty gallons of gas, I saw 65.8 on gps with 3 people on board. I am still considering a balanced and blue printed prop. I would like to know if anyone on lake St Clair would be interested in a prop swap day. Of course I have only one prop so I am really looking for a sponsor that has been down this road already.
Thanks
JC

fountain27ho496

Now that sounds better. I found a june 02 powerboat test on your boat.
62.4@4800 23 mirage. 496mag, not ho, should be 66.4 with ho. Every
person in the boat cost you 1 mph. you would have been at 67 alone.
Thats probably as good as it gets. By the way I was running next to you sat. morning coming out of clinton river heading to metro. You stopped to talk to 2 boats and I went in to metro. Later, JC, also. My business is called
J.C. Carpet. I'm not stealing your initials.

jcimprover

When I saw you I asked myself, hmm wonder if thats the same guy from waterford. Small world. What kind of mph were you running that day? Did you go to the raft party at muscemoot? I figured if you from waterford you would have been using the launch at the end of hall road.
JC

fountain27ho496

I always launch at the clinton river, DNR, That was my first time out with my 28" prop. Its easier to test and compare on my lake because I dont have to worry about getting launched. I had a best of 69 speedo(67gps) @ 5200
with my 26. I hoped to bring the rpm's down. I was running in the river
getting beat by a 29 fountain and saw 69 on the speedo at only 4600rpm
The boat is still on the trailer, I need to do some more testing. I was hoping
for 4800-4900. 4600 is probably to low. We ran up to sarnia that night and hooked up with some friends. I was in muscamoot until about 5. Suppose to do indian river/mullet/burt this weekend. Still watching the weather to see if I have to cancel and go somewhere else. JC

z.zuperboat

Russ is right.Every BAJA ive seen had the hook.If removed it will let you carry the nose better with less trim in turn more speed.less wetted surface.Great picture RUSS.

articfriends

iTrader: (1)

Fountain 27,i'm going to mullet/burt lk this wknd too,you'd never believe this but i have a spare 28 pitch 4 blade merc that was tuned to a 27 pitch by hydromotive in ohio,it's not enough for my 540 i have now (i use it if i'm going to have 8 people and a full tk of gas) and i hit my rev limiter at 6000,i would be willing to let you try it and more than willing to trade you even up for your stock 28 as long as it's not damaged,pm me with a phone # and we'll have to hook up,Smitty

fountain27ho496

Another small world. I just bought this prop last week and havn't got it
tested out yet. I would be up for testing though.
Are you going regardless of weather? there calling for rain sat. and sun.
Where are you staying? I have res. at the landings sat. and sun. night.
I planned on driving most of the way fri. night. and getting there sat. am.
I'll blow it off if the weather doesn't improve. I hate to tow my boat 4 hours
to sit in the rain. I have no bimini. What kind of boat are you running?
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