hi guys, i own a 1981 velocity vmx 30, it had inboards but i took them out, closed the holes and placed an armstrong bracket on the stern, afterwhich i put on twin 250 mercury efi's. it runs good but the most i could get on a good day is 69-70 with 23 pitch rapture props. any ideas on getting more speed?

I know a fellow with the same boat as you. He is Tripps here on OSO and on Scream&Fly.
Eric's boat has/had 3 200HP Mercs and runs 70. He is looking for a set of 250s to bolt in place of the trips.
You guys could probably help each other.
I think you are getting about as much as your going to get from an old school 30' boat with 500HP.

Take the weed wackers off and put a couple blue motors in it.

thanks alot Pat, i was thinkn of maybe upgrading to 300's, i dont think ill go back to inboards, i prefer outboards. but i heard of a guy with one of those very same boats wit 3 250's and he is somewhere in the 90's range.

Ted at Links marine in Delaware put one together with tripps . He should have lots of information about rigging and results . I think he put 3-250 Mercury's and might have used a jack plate . Link's is also a a Mercury dealer rebuilder . Some times he can be found on OSO , look in the Outerlimits forums . I would think he would be happy to share information with you .

Island boi,u shudda kept big blocks,my buddy has1 that goes 90 with 2 junkers,try some 24 choppers and lotsa trim,and check speed with a gps,i notice my boat looses a little speed with 2 much trim,but handles rough water better. about time somebody posted about a old school 30 velocity,i love mine especially when it gets up on the pad. for 500 hp u are doing good 4 speed,i have 600 hp and goin as fast as u but you have twins,try some engine mods,go to screamandfly.com plenty of OB help there. oh yeah what island u on ??? tripps

hey tripps, im on the island of abaco, i love my boat also, i normally race a 28 cigarette, 24 scarab and 24 pantera, none of which can keep up with me, id love to find some 24 pitch choppers, just had my boat out today for a run, weather was flat calm, i like rough weathr better, i wanna upgrade to 300 optimax xs'

Check out screamandfly.com and get some mods 4 your motas ,before u spend 30k see what the S+F boys say about that tripps

on the web at labmarineinc.com they have a 32' 97 w/3-225 06 merc's , says 90+mph for 56k , sorry don't know how to link it

http://www.yachtworld.com/core/listi...=labmarineinc&