So these are interesting. 1 video is strictly of the bravo 1 drive at speed underwater. You can notice how it can create a lot of drag, because it is very difficult to surface the bravo style propeller so the bullet of the drive can be very draggy in the water. This was a very high x dimension for a bravo propeller on a spectre 32 ft cat. Also past 2 minutes you can start to see a lot of air time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxHe5tcbP2o

This video is even wilder, it is both the X Power Drive and the Bravo 1 split screen side by side on the same boat at the same time up to 144mph. We have lots of different drive videos that we will start to show if you guys think it's interesting. Also at 3:55 in there is some jumping and 7:44 we go 144 mph, and this is all in the ocean. We stopped doing it with the bravo because it started to become to expensive to always repair the drive.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esk4O_LqDu0

Great Videos !!

The website for X Power Drive seem to be not working.


says account suspended:

http://www.xpowerdrive.com/



Are there other sites I can learn about the XPD?

Def Awesome vids!

pleeez post more if you can.

Is it me or does the Bravo look likes it's ready to fall off

The comparison of these two drives are not even close. The Xdrive is the best alternative for bravo users if you wanna get away from the headaches of blown bravos. The only downside I see is 35k a piece for the Xdrives. thats 70k which is more than half of what most of us paid for our bravo boat.

fun to watch !

We are doing a complete revamp of our site, so the IT guy must have it down. I'll check when it will be up again.

What's strange is it does look like the bravo is ready to break in half, and believe it or not we have broken 2 of them in half and left two complete lower units at the bottom of the ocean, prop and all..

Wow, makes me scared my drives going to split in half at speed! LOL!

Thanks for sharing, great videos.

Bill
Do you know what is the X dimension on the bravo drive in the video?
Thanks
Steve

Both of those videos appear to show the drives being run as a surfacing drive - which Mercury doesn't recommend the Bravo for last time I checked. I was really hoping for a true underwater video showing the flow of water over the bullet and to the prop.