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Old 06-20-2008 | 09:27 AM
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Love Machine, I think they are the same one's that I have. I have 110s K-planes. Not made anymore,the factory told me they were to expensive for their size. I guess people with smaller boats didn't want to spend that much $. Doug
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Old 06-20-2008 | 10:49 AM
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Yep, that looks like the ones I have. I think the best way to go is bolting stainless plates to the existing ones. Probably a winter project for me.
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Old 06-20-2008 | 12:13 PM
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Originally Posted by rchevelle71
Just Bennett Sport tabs, they work OK, but are kinda slow to react, and could be a little longer.
Well that explains a lot. I had those on the python. The slow reaction can be pretty dangerous. Wish I had known that before. I did feel that it would have benefited from longer tabs.
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Old 06-20-2008 | 01:42 PM
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I had those 110s on my 1989 24' Pantera I/O and I thought they worked OK. Certainly better than the Bennett sheet metal crap I had on my 20' Donzi.
I had the 280s on my 24’ Super and they worked vary well.
To be honest, with a twin outboard, I don’t think going to a bigger tab is going to gain you much. You can change the attitude of your boat a lot by trimming the engines.
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Old 06-20-2008 | 02:07 PM
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Well that explains a lot. I had those on the python. The slow reaction can be pretty dangerous. Wish I had known that before. I did feel that it would have benefited from longer tabs.
I was told by bennett that you can make them run twice as fast by running dual pumps (one per side) for twin rams. the pump can only flow a certain amount, so the twin rams actually run half as fast as a single, but by running multiple pumps you can make them run full speed, but I was too cheap to buy more pumps
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Old 06-20-2008 | 04:32 PM
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Mine had the twin rams.

The 280 K-planes on the apache work a whole lot better....night and day difference. Makes driving a lot easier.
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