Good stuff dude. Congrats!

One thing you have to consider w/engine height is if and how much your hull lifts at speed.

My twin O/B 24’ Sonics and current 25’ Checkmate are quite a bit lighter than your hull and they lift quite a bit at speed.

They also have a pad/semi pad at the keel which increases lift which I don’t think yours has??

I set my prop shaft center lines (how we accurately measure) depth based on that and not the bottom in front of the motors.

For an O/B boat the easy answer is hydraulic jack plates do we can keep the motors down for ease in planing, stability at lower speed etc.

Once up and running, we can raise the motors.

When mine are up, they will be even w/the pad/keel.

And yes, you need water pressure gauges to assure you don’t run the motors out of water.

Great job and anxious to see your improvements.

Cool project and good results! Looks like a lot of worry free fun. I love the feel of a light boat that rides on top of the water rather than down in it. Keep after it.

That’s awesome. I need some verados.

Love the Trump flag.

Have mine in front yard.


The boat looks GREAT w/the O/Bs!

How much to rig some verados on my boat?

Let’s talk.

What RPM’s you hitting with those 22” props.
I think with a little finagling you should be able to get that in the upper 70’s or better, no???
Looks so sweet by the way.
Get busy! Get that second tune on. We need results!!!!

I agree pretty sure 70 is possible with the second tune. For RPMs I was at 6200 on the port motor (non tuned) and 6350 on the starboard engine. Even when I had the one computer bad my RPMs where still very close even though only one engine was going beyond 80% but the fuel flow split was massive. 28gph on port to 17 on starboard with the bad computer. It was too rough and could not get good numbers this past weekend so will bring up the fuel flow next run and see if its split. If it is split then I know the non tuned engine is dragging them both down.

I also need to find the leak in the transom bracket because its holding about 40 gallons of water and that's not helping.

Was fun flying past all the fishing boats.. I mean high performance center counsels as they call them all weekend. A new thing she will do is when I have her trimmed out for topend and go down to cruise it will porpoise some until I feed in a touch of down trim. Its no big deal just something new I would assume since its so much lighter and the CG shifted back some. Felt like a heavy tank before now she is like a sports car.

Yea man that's what I wanted dependability yet good performance. I changed all the plugs a few weeks ago in about 30 mins for all of them where with the big blocks it would take a few days lol. I can say it does everything better then before. Lighter faster smoother better on gas less maintenance. Only down side is the sweet sound of the big blocks.

I can drop 40 gallons in her and be good the whole weekend. Before it was 40 gallons for a single day out. Not to mention Filling up gas cans and fueling on my lift sucks so doing half of that is huge.

Almost have 100 hours on her since the retrofit now. Loving it. Use it every weekend and sometimes take her to dinner during the week.

got the other engine tuned now and she is right in the upper 60s about 68 or so now. I just serviced all the 100 hour items but might order new impellers and while I have lowers off swap them from left to right.

had a buddy with a scarab 302 get about 3mph gain by spinning them in. So that would get me past the 70mph mark.