Recent content by fullhouse

Thanks Guys for all your comments. I will work on this. Ron, the props were 20 x 25.5 and I had them reworked to 20 x 26 in order to speed up the boat. The transmission is 1.6 ratio vee drives. There is some history that concerns me and seems fishy. Why did the boat come with an extra set of...

How difficult would it be to get the rpm's to display on the E120?(called cat and they said no way) I order to leave the dash intact can I run an additional tach in a remote location?

I am wondering about the tachs some. They read a few hundred different. Do they usually read high or low? Is it easy to connect an instrument to the engine to get a better reading? They do seem to top out at 2800.

We get a late start every year. Just before July 4th. We do not have any growth yet. When we paint it each year I wonder about the depressions left by the chips. Would they slow it down much? Should we strip all the paint off and start over?

We push the button and see the bow go down. I will check this weekend to make sure they move all the way.

I wish I could answer the gph question. We do not fill the tanks full when refueling. Trying to minimize the weight. He has a metering device that tells him gph. I have actually never calculated it. I will work on that this weekend. We had a marine surveyor do a sea trial with us and he did...

I sent Sea Ray an email last night asking for prop size and have not heard back. I will send them another looking for remaining specs. I determine my speed by the GPS and my brother in his 360 who said he has never travelled so slow. He said he normally burns 45 GPH and burned 30 GPH following...

Thank you for the welcome. We top out at 2800 rpm and it seems to come up on a plane o.k. Should I time it? The rating plate on my engines says 350 and the test boat was 340. They seem to be working pretty hard.

1999 380DA-640 with 3116TA cats. I have always been concerned that my boat just does not go as fast as it should. I Recently found some information on "BOATTEST" that indicated that I should be able to make 24.3 knots at 2250 rpm and top out at 30.8 knots at 2800 rpm. I am not sure if the props...