Baddest Bassboat Mota

[ASPB]

If a man were looking for the baddest outboard for a bassboat(pump gas),where mite he look and what would ya'll suggest.I wanna go with a 2.5 and still got the 300x but thinking about selling it.From what i've heard,a super strong 2.5 and reliability don't gon in the same sentence.Talked to simon mota sports about his 2.7 but he says it is not good for what most bassboats do.Simons 335 is a super mota but that would be a lateral move.I put about 25 hours a year on my boat so a ported and balanced 280 is what i'm thinking.

[Corona Mike]

Do your self a favor. Stay as "stock" as possable!! Find a 280 with 260 electronics. They run very good on a "stock weight" bass boat, and IF you have to re-fuel on the lake, they are pretty forgiving when it comes to octane--just don't make a habbit of using low octane gas on performance motors! You forgot to mention what brand of boat you have. If you are running a Triton/Ranger/Stratus/etc...Stay with your 300x and add a SVS. Just my $.02

[Largemouthlou]

The "MAN" has a Stroker and a dang fast one at that!!:D :D Louis

[ASPB]

I got a 21 stroker bassboat that has run 105.1 and runs a consistant high 103's to low 104's.Don't know if you can put a svs on a 300x.I just want a 2.5 mota that runs strong and is reliable.

[captain corona]

Stokers run pretty good--105 is DAMN GOOD!!--I'd give Tony Bercato a call I think he has a SVS for the 300X. There are a couple of Stokers that run the Kissimmee chain that run the 280's and they don't run that good--they will tell you they run hi-90's but--they don't! So you already pretty much have them covered + your motor is more reliable. Good Luck with your decision! Corona Mike!!

[ASPB]

The 300x is pretty much a trouble free mota,so i may end up keeping it.Captain Carona, a stroker/280 is definately a tripple digit boat on a good day and will run high 90's most any day.Now as you may know,what a boat can do and what driver can get it to do may at times be different.We have run them over 100 on many occasions.Best i've personally seen is 102.Set up and driving is the key.

[captain corona]

Like I said, maybe it just those two boats but, the one guy spent about an hour telling us just how fast his boat was, and he jumped on a--I get sick saying it--Gambler with a 300 pro-max! not a X-motor--and the gambler outran him like he owned him! The fastest the Gambler has run to date is 88-mph.Now I am SURE the Stoker should be MUCH faster than that, but, I SAW it happen. Keep the 300, you wont be sorry!

[Wizard]

ASPB dude. You're messin with everyones head bro. Ain't gonna find no mota better'n what ya got brotha.

All the 280's gonna do is make ya wrench more.:eek:

Send that badboy to Simon and take it to the next level.

Simon will put you right up there with Nichols. :D

[ASPB]

If you saw the gambler outrun the stroker i can't argue what you saw.Not talking bad about gamblers cause they are awesome boats but,I say a stroker/225pm outruns the 300 powered gambler with not too much problem.been there,done that.We got gamblers here with 300x's on them and they gps mid 80's at best,but i really think 88 is obtainable.Wizzard i got a bud with a simon 335 and that mota is bad to the bone but he's not as fast as i am.He's at a best of 102+ so far.

[Wizard]

Then spend the money burnin a whole in yer pocket on beer! :cool: :D

[ASPB]

wizard i don't drink so i guess i'll have to buy sweet tea:D

[Ted Stryker]

At 105, your holding off most 260-280 Allison XB2002's with more reliabilty... I can always understand the urge to do something different for the hell-o-vit, but I think you may end up just going slower because of it... You may go faster some of the time, but not as often as you do now... Let some of the Mota guy's rub on your 3.0 liter X a little, that's a lot of cubes just waiting... I'm not at all being derogative, but when I had my Xb2002/260 I wouldn't have expected to get a run from a Stroker... I'm sure your humbling a few Hot Rod Bass boaters...

[03bignasty]

Give him a big old spoon wizard. lol

[ASPB]

Ted,it suprises a LOT of folks.Most don't know about the strokers but are finding out.A lot of guys that have them have bad setups or can't drive them the way they need to be driven.Hard to believe that big tub runs like that.

[Mr.Rude]

Everybody knows the best bassboat mota is a 9.9 kicker!

[Corona Mike]

The set-up must have ben the problem with the guys boat I was talking about. BTW I WASN'T saying anything negitive about Stokers I hope you didn't take it that way! I personaly know the guy with the Gambler and when he told me it ran 88-mph I told him his chebby truk was faster than it looked!:D The guy with the Stoker was a knowlogest--knew something about everything--so you couldn't help him. The last I saw of the boat it was setting for sale in Land-O-Lakes. He traded it in on a Ranger Flats boat. It was a shame to see it setting on a lot out in the sun:( I still think you are close on the correct motor tough, 105 is pretty strong even for a XB-2003 Allison with the 280/260 combo. Good Luck! Mike T.

[ASPB]

Mike i didn't take that as negative talk at all.Even if you said you didn't like a particullar boat,thats not negative talk.Most guys take stuff like that the wrong way.We met a guy a few years back that had a ally xb2003/260.A guy with a ranger with a 225 on the back was bragging about outrunning him.Of course everyone thought the ranger guy was crazy.When we finally talked to the guy with the ally he told us he had been beaten by a few boats.He said he had just gotten the boat and was trying to learn to drive it and had trouble getting it over 65mph.So the ranger did win.I posted this on another site and i almost got hung,i've had 5 allisons and would definately have another one but many of the guys took it as bashing and what i was doing was trying to talk about the guys that have high performance boats and don't know how to set them up and drive them.

[stokernick]

while we're nitpickin' are we talking about ''StRoker'' bass boats or Stoker fast boats??

[Tony Montana]

let Simon work his magic on your motor. Sounds like a sweet set up already that could only get better with a little work from Eric.

[RB in NM]

Strokernick,,, it's a ole' sloe bassboat :D jus' happens to be a Stroker 'fastboat'........too

ASPB's numbers were a little hard to swallow for me, until I got into some of the threads about his ride... and seen the GPS readings and heard from guys that rode in hiz bote at 102-103 mph.... Says a lot for setup... for a ole bassbote! ;)

Heck ASPB, if you looking fer something different, I'd get that badazzed 15" midsection under that 300 and let her eat...don;t know if you'll EVER find a reliable 2.5 with the performance you gittin' outta that 300 bud!

later, Russ

[ASPB]

Thanks for the compliments RB.I am well use to people not believing the speeds of a stroker,i just tell them to get in and lets go for a ride.I've taken a half dozen people for 100+mph rides in it loaded to fish.I may let simon do a little magic to it after the warranty goes out next year if i decide to keep it.Think mine runs good,there's a comp hull stroker out there running 107.9 with a 300x and two people,now thats smokin for a slow bassboat:D .

[PFord]

I think we are confused on the boat, the boat Greg has is a Stroker Bassboat not a Stoker Boat. Greg if you want to go faster bet ya a Bullet that is yellow in color.:D

I don't think you are going to get a 2.5 to run as good or last as long as that 300X.

[ASPB]

Pford i guess i won't go faster with a 2.5 but i figured i'd ask:confused: .Man what would i do with a bullet,i wanna go fast:D :D :D :D :D :D j/k;)

[ASPB]

Something i just thought about.When we did the stroker test for bass and walleye magazine a few years back,the high performance dealer built a hot mota for one of the boats and it ran 104 with a bad lower unit and a bad lean to the driver side.That motor had over 30 hours on it before it was sold.paul Nichols has a motor on his 17cc now that he runs pretty hard and has a few hours on it.His boat ran over 120,now i know this is ob a 600lbs hull but these 2 motas are 2.5's are seem to hold up pretyy good. They are running a little hotter octane but with the gas prices the way they are now,100 octane ain't that high:confused:

[Chad Phillips]

Just take my 225 ProMax Greg, i'll gladly take your 300:cool:



:D

[Ted Stryker]

I would think that a 2.5 that'll get you 105+ would probably need rings about every 100-125 hours... Your 300 will probably go at least 3X that...

[Chad Phillips]

You need my 225 and let Paul work his magic on it, make it a reliable HP motor:D. Then I could take the 300 and put it on Barney:D

[ASPB]

Ted,i have no problem with the rings every 100-125 hours.With me putting 20-25 hours a year,a freshen up job every 4-5 years ain't bad.

[Ted Stryker]

Even at that, I don't see you gaining any mph really... Although I can see you picking up acceleration by letting you run a "shorter" prop due to the wider powerband and still letting you rev up to an equally good mph...