Sty57
Tree Freak
Beer-30?
Gotta be close nuff !!!!!Beer-30?
I think so.....Gotta be close nuff !!!!!
You'll probably find the your boat behaves considerably different with a stainless prop, even of the exact same diameter and pitch, especially at or near WOT. Aluminum props work well and are relatively inexpensive but lose a certain amount of cup and pitch as power increases......literally "Flattening" out the blades and becoming less efficient at speed. Stainless props maintain their shape and deliver numbers much closer to the stated ones on the prop when under a heavy load......
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Hope it works out for you....pretty spendy.....did you stay with the same dia. and pitch?
Yes, since it was the boats first run I left the aluminum prop on for this trip, I will put the stainless one on for next trip and check speed against engine RPM, if the remain close to the same all will be good. I have been told to expect a slight increase in speed at the same RPM due to the less flexing of the props blades. Spendy and shiny, just have fingers crossed that it works well.
You should hear the stories dad tells of proping boats in the 60s as outboards were coming into their own. Lots of good tales on owner "adjustments".Should be good....just hope it isn't so aggressive as to not allow your engine to spool up into the WOT spec for that engine...Bayliner is pretty light and smooth so probably just go faster.....I know when I was trying to get the Seaway propped up correctly after the new engine install, each change lowered the RPM and upped the top speed......I started with a 15 square.....34 mph...over revved badly.....went to a 15 X 17.....over revved almost as bad...36 mph....tried a 15 X 19....would stay off the rev limiter heading into the wind but would hit it running down wind...38 mph.....choices were getting slim.....the next size was 14.8 X 21......really needed to get the rpm down to hopefully mid spec.....hummed and hawed....checked the sporran.....fussed some more and finally doing a bunch of math I decided to go with the 14.8 X 21 in stainless....wasn't sure the alum would had done it......thing is...once you get to these numbers your choices get very limited and the props from there on get much smaller in diameter and a lot steeper in pitch and the Seaway has always responded better with a larger dia prop. In the end the 14.8 X 21 stainless did the trick....WOT spec on the Vortex 4.3 is 4400 to 4800...the 14.8 X 21 pushed us at an even 42MPH @ 4600 WOT.......perfect...but I went through 5 prop changes to get there.
Robin remember the old outboards with adjustments straight out the front to tweak rich or lean?You should hear the stories dad tells of proping boats in the 60s as outboards were coming into their own. Lots of good tales on owner "adjustments".
Robin remember the old outboards with adjustments straight out the front to tweak rich or lean?
Apparently they got so tired of people messing with carb tune they'd lock the jets with a jam nut and loosen the handle friction. Dad said it was hilarious to have someone come in with handles all over the place instead of the 12:00 position they left them in and the owner going on about how much better they ran now. In reality they had changed nothing.
"We're gonna miss the one eye'd whore!" [emoji12]Jimmy!! Couple new ones from O'Chang!!!!
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Should be good....just hope it isn't so aggressive as to not allow your engine to spool up into the WOT spec for that engine...Bayliner is pretty light and smooth so probably just go faster.....I know when I was trying to get the Seaway propped up correctly after the new engine install, each change lowered the RPM and upped the top speed......I started with a 15 square.....34 mph...over revved badly.....went to a 15 X 17.....over revved almost as bad...36 mph....tried a 15 X 19....would stay off the rev limiter heading into the wind but would hit it running down wind...38 mph.....choices were getting slim.....the next size was 14.8 X 21......really needed to get the rpm down to hopefully mid spec.....hummed and hawed....checked the sporran.....fussed some more and finally doing a bunch of math I decided to go with the 14.8 X 21 in stainless....wasn't sure the alum would had done it......thing is...once you get to these numbers your choices get very limited and the props from there on get much smaller in diameter and a lot steeper in pitch and the Seaway has always responded better with a larger dia prop. In the end the 14.8 X 21 stainless did the trick....WOT spec on the Vortex 4.3 is 4400 to 4800...the 14.8 X 21 pushed us at an even 42MPH @ 4600 WOT.......perfect...but I went through 5 prop changes to get there.
Lost rpm but how did it perform?We took a friends Jacuzzi pump off his jet boat and brought it into the lab and polished the Bejesus out of it. Paid attention to the radii and shape.
Lost 500 RPM.
You can do a lot with an impeller or propeller or expeller.