i've been looking at several different style bravo drives. bmax , imco, teague and max machine, anyone with any info good bad or otherwise post here. i'm running twin 700hp engines in a 9500 lb boat.

YOU DON'T HAVE A CHANCE WITH ANYTHING OTHER THAN A B-MAX.UNLESS YOU NEVER GO IN RUFF WATER,NEVER LAUNCH OUT,NEVER OVER ACCELERATE ,ECT.ECT.ECT.. I DONT SAY THIS BECAUSE I SELL & USE THEM. IT'S A FACT!!! YOUR BOAT WEIGHS TO MUCH FOR ANYTHING ELSE.

i have two 1.50 xr drives in excellant condition,low hours,$8000 for the pair delivered

I have Max machine on my PQ 700HP 1 season, about 80 hours. No problems. But I am carefull too.

I have a 750 +HP twin Max Machine's in a 30' boat. With 50 gal. gas and two man crew, I weigh 9500 lbs. Six races, many test hours plus pleasure use. I run my equipment hard...never a drive issue. Just sent them back to Max to check out. They replaced a few bearings and Merc's shaft coupler . Jason said everything else looked like new and shipped them back.

I'd love to upgrade to a Bmax drive myself; but, that's quite a chunck of change. I'm running a XR drive at about 800 HP; I have to be very careful with it.

What's the weak link in these drives; the XR? In the interim to upgrading to a Bmax or the likes, what can I do to beef up my current drive?

Mike

Max Machine can upgrade your XR and use many of your existing parts.

The top cap is definitely a weak link on the XR. I broke one a couple of weeks ago, and I am replacing both with Teague Billet caps now.

Max Machine works, Full upgrade including top cap, propshaft the whole works. I think 6,500 Maybe 6,800 for full upgrade - Talk to Jason! he's the man.

http://www.maxmachineworx.com/

thanks for the info so far, but i would really like to hear from people who have the teague or imco also.