225 johnson HO lighting gear case

[keyslife]

Does any one know if the lighting gear case will handle speeds like the sportmaster from mercury?

[Jeff "Yammer"]

Go for a reg. case and send it out . The water pick-ups are still way to high. !! .

Just what I've read and what I've noticed while looking at it .

Not sure why they would even produce a Half-assed attempt at a "Speed Case"

Jeff

[TTriton]

where in the Keys are you?? I'm sitting on Plantation Key in the lovely Village of Islamorada.. LOL

[keyslife]

i live in plantation key on MM 88.5 thinking about buying a 24' Cat with twin 225 HO's

[TTriton]

I'm less than a mile from you.. Have you heard of the lazarett?? The used marine store. Well it used to be.. Now it is more of a used marine storage. I do all my sales over ebay and here now since the village of Islamorada doesn't allow me signs.. I normally have several boats sitting in my parking lot. Right now I have a Chris Craft and a 30' Third Wheel boat trailer for hauling larger boats.


Hope to meet you some time.. ANd if you into OMC enigne's I'm working on getting a CCC from a guy in homesteade.. I have some parts that he wants and I know I will have no problem selling that CCC..

[LaveyT]

they are not to bad for Drag racing,The world champ Lake Racer
class runs one.It seems to handle 400H.P. O.K.:p

[WILDMAN]

I've got 6 new 2001 225HO's I'm selling for $8995. I talked to the rep from OMC and he runs one on his 18ft Mirage. He said it runs 104 mph by himself. I asked about a Bob's nosecone. He said the Lightning gearcase is 2-3 mph faster. It does'nt have the low-water pickup, but he said it runs pretty good without it. He's an ex drag racer, so he should know what he's talking about.

[Instigator]

some where when they first came out, and it was the slowest one they ran.
I think even than the stock case if you can believe that??

[LaveyT]

Im not sure what he meant but Stoker says he likes um,but they
are "particular".I think he was talking water pressure and trim angle issues.I talked to a dealer in Florida and he said Bombardier
scrapped dumpster loads of parts they obsoleted when they re-engineered a bunch of parts. I wonder what dump they took um to???:eek:

[keyslife]

Thanks for the feedback guys

[Reese]

FYI

B&WB in July/Aug 2000 tested a 225 Ficht on Stratos 21 comparing a stock gear case, a lightening, and a Jaco nosed coned on a stock gear case.

All cases ran a 26 Raker with a 12” Detwiler Hydrojack.

Results: Stock-76 @6,000 RPM, Lightening-76.8 @ 6,150, Jaco Coned stocker-76.2 @ 6,100.

If your running much faster than 80, or need to raise the lower unit higher than 1½" below the pad then maybe coned unit may be a better choice, otherwise the lightening seems to be a good design.