Just wondering if the pepes that spent the $$ for labbing, would you do it again? Did it perform the way you wanted? Before and after comments only please. Not off the shelf jobs.

Not happy at all,, spent 450.00 for a 28 B1 plus 450.00 to have it labbed by throttle-up,, all I gained was rpms and slip, not a single MPH,, an expensive 900.00 experiment.

I should have known after talking to Gene at Throttle up, when he asked what I expected to get out of labbing, and I told him 2-3 mph on top end and he laughed, it was going to be a waste of money..

05 Sunsation 288:

stock 26 B1 runs 69-71 @ 5K
stock 28 B1 ran 69-70 @ 4,700
labbed 28 B1 runs 69-71 at 5K

biggest waste of 500 bucks.. I would never do it again...

But, I truely believe there are gains to be had through labbing but only on certain boats, my 29 single engine wasn't one of them, all it did was increase the slip %... but on my baja 232 it was amazing, stock 23 mirage + ran 60-62 at 4,700,,, labbed 26 B1 ran 64-65 @ 4,200 holeshot and handling were much improved. I think the biggest gains can come from a boat that can handle a 3 blade then go to a labbed 4 and get increases across the board, while decreasing slip...

I have questioned T.U. several times in the past about demoing a labbed 5 blade, but I don't think they demo labbed props and I am not willing to try a 1,500 dollar experiment this time..

Great Topic for a Thread Faster!

I'm not going to ramble on about my experiences as you have heard them over on the Superboat forum.
I will say that after struggling with the same question, I have decided to spend my money on trying/buying a different prop rather than "labbing" the one I have been using.

A friend went from a 23 Miarage to a 24 Bravo to a labbed 24 Bravo. Bravo was better than the Mirage. Labbed B1 picked up 2 mph top end., 5/6 mpn at 3000 rpms and 6/7 mph at 4000 rpms over the stock Mirage.
Boat is a 1991 242LS Formula/502 mag
Labbed 24 Bravo was a keeper

I pulled good results out of my lapped prop, ran a stock 24 Bravo at 66 turning 5100 RPM after the labbing turning 69 at 5000 RPM. I think that maybe the trick is that when you get it labbed you take alittle out of the pitch, it needs to be put back in to be affective??? After talking to R+R Prop shop they labbed and added pitch to make it a 25 pitch worked out well...

Keep the comments comming. Thanks.

For a bravo drive application the stock props new are so good that to me it was a waste of time to lab and will not get it done again. Now with the speedmaster props,price and availability are out of hand so BBLADES is my only option.