"fishing" boat question

[RSWORDS]

try a different prop to get your r's up.... see if there is a difference. Or maybe the engine is too low on transom....

It's defiantly not too low. Lol if anything I might drop it down a hole. I got a bit greedy. The prop is on the very edge of blowing out with any trim input and the AV plate has about 1" of air above the water at cruise.

I need to bring a bunch of props home and try some out. I'm "technically " in the WOT range by a few hundred rpm. I'm not sure I want to give up my cruise with a smaller prop it is a fishing boat/family cruiser so top end is not that big of a deal. I'll see what I can come up with though.

I might grab an enirtia off the self and give it a shot

[RSWORDS]

Do you want to sell the 200 carb?

Not yet, it's sitting at the shop with my other "one day I'll do something with them" motors. This one actually runs though, most the others are take offs from repowers and have various issues so it will make a good back up for both my boats.

[flabum1017]

It's better to be propped out as close to max rpm as possible My friends boat has twin 225 opti's and when over propped, he gets 65, when he drops down a pitch, he hit's 70 and tickles the limiter..

[RSWORDS]

It's better to be propped out as close to max rpm as possible My friends boat has twin 225 opti's and when over propped, he gets 65, when he drops down a pitch, he hit's 70 and tickles the limiter..

Yeah I know. I'll give it a shot. I just like the cruise speed and rpm.

[RSWORDS]

Do you want to sell the 200 carb?

I'm contemplating selling my motor. Have another project I want. I know the .otor will need a trim motor (Its rusted) ran good but I'll do the leakdown/compression on it. If your interested let me know.

[CircleHook]

I'm contemplating selling my motor. Have another project I want. I know the .otor will need a trim motor (Its rusted) ran good but I'll do the leakdown/compression on it. If your interested let me know.

Yes I would be interested- if you can ship- I can arrange truck if you can palletize.

[RSWORDS]

I can get it on a pallet. Let me look it over good first. I'll get co.pression and leakdown number and.then we can talk.

[W2F a V-King]

RSWORDS

Did the fuel mileage come up as expected?

Just curious...never owned an opti...

[RSWORDS]

RSWORDS

Did the fuel mileage come up as expected?

Just curious...never owned an opti...

In this setup I can't give you exact numbers because I havent run that far.. Bit in my experiance rigging other boats I would say easy 25% increase. On 3 liter carb/efi motors it's almost double.

BUT also in my experience oil consumption stays about the same. If you think about it though.... the engine is making the same number of revolution between point a and b so oil requirement should be the same. It's a little better but not the same gain as fuel.

Fuel burn aside.... the extra torque is amazing. With 8 people on board the boat didn't give two ****s about getting up on plane where with the old 2.5 you knew it was loaded heavy. So even if the fuel burn was equal (which it's not) the opti has way better driveability