OK RPM 5200.......Prop stock Bravo 28P with added cupping

79.8 GPS both in dash speedo and GARMIN....also was a sustained time not a fluke out bouncer that tagged a 79.8 for a split second. Two people / half fuel / 1-2 foot chop / 70 degrees/ no wind. This was Saturday Oct 1, 2005. Now do these other boats have a set back box ? Like the ITS XR ?

ANYTIME...you have an open invitation.......OH and BTW......we are still prop testing we think we can get more.

I will find out from Lonnie....my guess would be yes since most builders of other lines we carry have made changes since 2000 in the layup/lamination process. I will find out. Some other points

Open bow or closed bow ? Set back boxes ? Early HEATs were not stepped either but I am not certain what year they added steps to the hulls. I think it was around 1999 or 2000.

Keep in mind that we were getting 76-77 at first 20 hour mark with a stock 28P Bravo. Now at 53 hours, cooler air temps, very low humidity and prop mods we are seeing 79.8.

My heat is a 99 no steps. I think they added the step in 2000.

Dave,
When are you coming into Richmond? I remember us talking about getting together when you were in Baltimore. Your in my back yard. Call me and lets get together. I will take you for a boat ride if you can squeeze it in. Plan on an afternooon on the James River if you can.

LIOPA...the boat was a stepped model with a stock 496HO and Bravo drive. I tested many props too. Congrats on your numbers, looks like Nordic has a real winner there!

I have a 2003 heat 525EFI XR drive, with 2 people 73 GPS on lake MIchigan in hot weather.

One mph less than I predicted my boat would have been with the same engine.

BobL has an ITS on his Heat as did the 500EFI ProCharged Heat that ran 79 in Powerboat and Hotboat. It's felt that this is not the best set up for a Heat. Excess slip to be exact.
5200 with a 28 will get you the same 71-72 that Lonnie, Hotboat, Powerboat and everyone else that has gotten with those identical numbers. Saltwater, ice, whatever
There's always that one in a 100 or so though
That 525EFI is knocking that 625 Illmors dink in the dirt

How about that Raylar Mark...Sorry about your thread here; It's kind of taken a turn South

Linnie, I'll email or call you in the morning.

I'm out of here...
Dave

From one of the other posts I had contacted Lonnie regarding the 28 with 625 ILMOR. Lonnie claims the magazine would not let them prop swap at the test. In addition the conditions and air temps were not posted in the review. FLAT WATER and 125 air temp according to Lonnie. Lonnie claims they achieved 88 MPH with the 625 (cooler temps , light chop and custom prop). Has anyone been in that boat since the test article ??? I am curious to what it truly gets MPH wise in regular conditions.