How far below the keel is your prop shaft? What you're saying is the the the step is so big it's boiling the water that far below the keel? I don't see how stuffing the drive farther down is going to make you go faster. Drag is drag, right?

I assume the point of the prop going lower in the water is to get it below the bubbles created by the step. The prop wil obviously not bite the water if its full of air. When i start running the 5 blade im going to try to take the spacer off and if i loose top end ill know i need to go deeper with the prop. Its just trial and error and hopefully some success somewhere in this testing.

Wellcraft makes a great boat.

IMO, the 280 was PQ's first stepped hull so they were experimenting with drive height somewhat, the prev owner of my old 280 installed a 1" spacer and picked up at least 2mph, he said it wouldblow out without the spacer. I had a basically stock 502mpi w/ gil exhaust and saw 69.5 gps, not bad for a 502

Thats what ive heard also. Mine had a 1" spacer on it when got it. The only prob is it leans to left a bit with a spacer due to prop TQ. Bob280 told me his did it too and he took the spacer off and it didnt do it anymore. Mine also has a low water pickup " because of the air that the step creates" it needs it so it wont suck air in the cooling system.

Im draggin this out of the archives. Didnt get to run any 29 OL at poker run. I did however have one fall in my lap yesterday on the river. It was perfect timing. I had 5 people in my 280. 2 full coolers and a half tank of fuel. The 29 OL runs up beside me with only 2 guys in it and throws his hand forward " we all know what that means" so he hammers down and pulls me a boat and i do the same. We ran about 2 miles and i pulled him. 5 boats. 3/4 thru the race i was 2+ boats out in front and we blew by some friends of mine tied up on the bank. Thay enjoyed the show. My fiance who is scared of speed on rough water was scrambling to get her phone to video it and almost droped it out of the boat so she didnt get any video. But i have 8 witnesses " not counting the guys in the baja"..

To finish this post id like to quoat a local baja dealer in the ohio river vally that is an ex PQ dealer "BAJA IS THE BAYLINER OF PERFORMANCE BOATS" un quoat. This didnt come out of mouth. Just passing it on from the biggest baja dealer in Louisville area.

Pull the dash on a Bayliner and pull the dash on a PQ. Get back to me on which one has the better wiring.

Awesome. Im gonna trade my boat in for a bayliner. All you baja guys should too. Hell you might as well trade that high performance chaparral in for one too.LMFAO

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