Thank you padraig!!! Maybe my speedo is off. All numbers seem about right

Planes off with the bravo 26 nicely ?

Borrow a GPS or get an app for your phone and check the numbers, Boat speedometers are notoriously inaccurate.
What part of the country are you located? There might be a fellow Velocity owner nearby.

Padraig

The Bravo props are really 1 pitch smaller than stamped. The 28p Bravo measures 14.75" dia vs 15.25" as advertised. The larger pitch's are more true to size. That's the correct prop for his boat.

Prop/hull condition? Boat load? All play a big factor in getting top speed and rpms. As said get some gps speed numbers. What are you trimmed at?

i do have a spare propeller. its a 28 4 blade but the blades are sharper. would that make that big of a difference? hull is in great shape and usually have 4 on board with half tank of gas. was running against my old boat and a friends 272 baja both with 502s. werent pulling on my. ill look more closely at tach and speedo today. thanks again gents!!

What rpms are you running at ? if the engine will not reach 5000 rpms I would scan the engine and see if the engine is producing 100 available power and I would check fuel pressure before spending money on new props.. 496 suffer from many sensor issue - fuel side and fuel pressure issues all the time. And even PCM issues. Believe I know.

Also just some side info for whomever - the 496 actually can run decent on 7 cyc - the idle will be somewhat rough but off idle it does not seem too bad for running - a lack of full range rpms will missing thou.

Ok. I'll check my rpms and speed this week. Thanks again.

I have a 290SC (enclosed head) with a stock 496MagHO and with the Stock (non-"velocity") Merc Bravo1 28p I got it to 67 at ~4600 to 4700 rpm (65 gallons of fuel, gear and 2 adults). I sent the Bravo1 to Scott at Velocity, had it labbed and now it does 71 mph at ~4900 rpm down wind and 70 mph up wind (60 gallons of fuel, gear, 2 adults and a child) and it had more I could've squeezed out of it. With the original labbed velocity prop (a Bravo1 28p labeled Velocity-1) that came with the boat, Scott also labbed it, however, I haven't had the opportunity to really test it.

hey thanks. that sounds about right where im running at also. would you have any contact info to get ahold of scotty? thanks for the help.

You can contact him at velocityboats.com 386-679-5682.