Ouch, Been on two 30/32 velocity's w/454mags that had trouble hittin 70 - 72, heck it couldnt even run with his brothers 31 sonic with 454's in some water. They must have gotten duds or really just cant drive...

i agree those must have been duds this one was a '97 model full interior radared 77 with 26" hydromotive four blades hit the 80 mph flat with 28" over the hub exhaust choppers from a buddies outboard boat, tough to get on plane with but rode high and fast this was the actual boat used for photos on a bunch of their ads with the red hull sides

In answer to your question, yes I have a 33' Scarab AVS. What kind of information are you looking for?

i have a 99 33 avs on stock 502 pwr 80.0 on gps

w/ the stock pwr 80.0 is respectable speed considering the boat weighs 8600 lbs w/out fuel or pax. Im currently building two low 600hp GM 502's, holley carbs{830hp}, merlin heads, brodix intakes, crane cam 632lift. Being relatively new to the 33, I have a couple of questions for anyone please. First what props should I expect to turn, I would like to turn around 5400-5600 rpms and second, what kind of top end should I see. Thanx

Hey i have a 33avs

I wonder what tim wanted to know??? liquor man are you going to stay with the 1.50 brovos if so 32 or 34 pitch with 600 hp a avs should run 92 to 94. their is a guy on this board that has some 800 hps in his it runs 105 but has alot of other things ie. raised x and ext boxes. mine is apart now and i am doing the same. james

fat chance of that, I was running approx 700 hp with 1.36 drives and 32" bravo props (these were original 30's pitched by mercury racing to 32 before they even made 32's) this boat radared 96 at 5300ish rpm's 1.50 gears with 32" and 10% slip which i have never seen from that hull will only get you 90MPH the boat I run has always had around 15 to 17 percent slip and improved very little with the addition of the 2" shorter imco drives(although the boat handles alot better at high speeds with them) If you are going to put any kind of power even only 600horse you will want the higher gears to spin a smaller pitch prop. In my findings on this boat the steep blade angle makes the boat fairly squirrly at high speeds (90 and above) I ran a set of lab finished 36" bravo's on it once and it handled like crap at speeds in the low 80's nothing like a non labbed pair of 32 's. I ended up running this boat with 28" non labbed bavo ones's on drives with the Imco lowers which makes the ratio like a 1.21 turning 5800 rpm's blew up a stern drive at the radar gun and went thru at 102MPH this combo at 17.5% slip shows 104ish just to give an idea of what is required to make this boat fast. Not that any one carees but the GPS read 108 when the radar said 102 I beleive the radar! This speed is listed in the new powerboat with bud on the cover in the shootout winners this boat is V3P2 class i did however get beat by charlie hamman i thik he went 105

BILGERAT COULD YOU GIVE ME A CALL SO I CAN PICK YOUR BRAIN A LITTLE SEEMS LIKE YOU KNOW A LITTLE ABOUT A SCARAB 615-480-3150. THANKS

bilgerat do you know doug fisk?? also I have been on a 33 avs radared at 92 with dpxs 600 hps 5350 they only make 560 hp is the dpxs that much more efficient than the merc setup??