Recommend me a prop
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Boat is a 22 ft scarab advantage. Motor is a 383 stroker making around 350hp n/a. I am adding a blower to it this week and it should be making close to 500hp at 7 psi. When the boat was n/a I ran a 15.25 x 22 hydromotive 4 blade. It did good but now I am making another 150hp I am thinking I need to jump up to a 25-27 range. Not sure though. Outdrive is a alpha 1.....
Shooting for 75 mph.
Thoughts?
Shooting for 75 mph.Thoughts?
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that is a lot of power for an alpha. i would go back to a 3 blade. less load on drive. better top speed. you don't need 4 plades to push a boat that size. need more perf info than it did good in order to make any guesstimates. alphas don't like to go over 5500 or so. fortunately they are inexpensive...
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I had a 21 ft baja with a 350 sb blowen pushing 500 hp and ran it for years and never blew the alpha. I always took it real easy coming out of the hole. And actually I know the guy I sold it to and he is still running the same drive just a little less power behind it and that was 6 years or more ago. I would recommend changing drive oil often and run a drive shower. Sorry I don't have an answer for your prop question but I felt I needed to stick up for you and your choice to stay with an alpha, because it can be done.
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I had a 21 ft baja with a 350 sb blowen pushing 500 hp and ran it for years and never blew the alpha. I always took it real easy coming out of the hole. And actually I know the guy I sold it to and he is still running the same drive just a little less power behind it and that was 6 years or more ago. I would recommend changing drive oil often and run a drive shower. Sorry I don't have an answer for your prop question but I felt I needed to stick up for you and your choice to stay with an alpha, because it can be done.
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You're probably only looking at a addition 2-3 inches of pitch.
Call us and we can set you up with a test propeller.
Brett
Call us and we can set you up with a test propeller.
Brett
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