Curious to know how everything turned out for you.

I just rebuilt a motor for a 28'. Last year at the end of the year the owner put an SCX on it with the 1300 lower unit. The boat lost 10 mph (72mph). With a Bravo the boat always ran right around 80 mph (800 hp).

This year, I pulled the SCX lower off and bolted an XR Lower on it and the boat magically picked up 11mph. The 1 extra mph was the fresh engine matched to a better camshaft.

Point being, he lost 10 mph with the SCX and 2" lower. We're not sure where to go with the project at this point. Either put a 2" spacer on with the SCX, Put an SC lower on it or, put an XR Lower on it.

Well,..... I knew that I would loose speed with the SCX for sure. My objective was to build a reliable quick boat vs. a fast boat. I prefer handling ruff water with excellent throttle response over flat out speed. I also didn't want to worry about a weak link and blow out a drive. That being said, I have great acceleration with marginal speed. I run a tick over 80 @ 5k. She gets there quickly using a 5 blade 30 pitch maximus. I had the prop worked to tweak the handling and that turned out great. I believe I have many mph left on the table for sure. I haven't done much with it because most of my running is with my kids and we average 50-60 mph running around. It is a blast to push the stick forward and snap to 80. So much so that I really don't have a huge desire to focus on the top speed. I spoke with a few of the guys that use to be on the board about their set ups. 1000 hp in the Mig and 1000 hp in b -stubs old boat. Those guys were running the xr stlye drives and were doing mid 90's ,mph. with props raised up high. Loose = fast. Their slips were very high so they ran 6 blade props. The mig was a really light lay up and Bstubbs was a full pleasure. Both boats had notched transoms. I'm not into dancing around loose and fast in ruff water with my kids, too risky. ( maybe alone). I do love big air and ruff water just not running on the ragged edge of....lol

I'll give you a ring today and go over some details. If I found a deal on an xr or sc lower I would try it but after almost 12 years of a Pantera love affair I'm am getting a wandering eye.

Thanks. Look forward to chatting.

Panther just stick with the XR and make me a deal on the SCX . I've been running over 800hp through my XR for a 100 hours now without failure in my Superboat . I got a deal on a 1300hp blower motor and I'm gonna need an SCX now .