wow it hit 9800
i think you should do something about that prop clearance
or was that on the trailer
I hope not because that like putting your car up on a trolley and saying it can do 150mph on the speedo
Its not about not respecting 550s i think they were a great ski
Its more the fact that you are saying it can blow of a superjet , sxr of the same tuned spec
What I said, and have said since June when the pink ski did this, is that it outran a stock SXR. Of course a built 800 motor vs a built 550 will have a distinct advantage - something about displacement I think.
This particular ski I don't have a permanently mounted tach. So yeah, backed into the water on the trailer is how you tune a boat. The pump needs to have a load on it to do any kind of tuning. On my other boat with the permanent tach, I have noticed it lags top R's on the water by about 500 RPM compared to what it does on the trailer. Additional ineffeicencies and hull resistance slow it down. However, tuning to max RPM's on the trailer is still the right way to set up the carbs. If it don't run on the trailer, it wont on the water either.
If I ever get the bugs worked on on the 1989 boat, I'll need a new tach. It has rev'ed out the 10K of the tiny tach a few times. The tach wacks out and goes blank. My ears ring like a rock concert. I would not be surprised if it was pushing 11,000 RPM. It is PJS T-3 550 reed cylinder.
Prop clearance? Yeah funny. The pink boat pushes a 17 Skat and it leaps out of the water, literally, without a wake...but then I'm only 150 LBS.
