88 open bow valero

[landolarry]

Hello I'm Larry,I traded my Heritage softail for a Valero with a merc nitro 175.new to hydrostreams but love fast,got a few questions but gotta go to work bbl, everyone have a nice day,

[77viper]

Welcome Larry, feel free to ask what ever questions you need. Post some pictures when you can.

[landolarry]

thanks, can't figger out how to git pic in avatar, what is redline for stock merc 175, looking forward to fun times in my stream.

[Rut311969]

Welcome nice looking Voyager great flake is it brown or dark gold either way looks to be in good shape Im redoing a 85 Voyager now .Not near as much flake as yours tho .Im not that lucky so my red stripes well have to do . Acording to the spec I have read on the Voyager it debute run it went 62mph with a 150 merc and a 24or 26 pitch chopper prop cant remember which .

[landolarry]

It came with a high 5 prop not sure of the pitch, but at 6000 The speedo reads 62. don't know how high i can rev that motor, and the high 5 has no bow lift so i want to change the prop just not sure what to get,the boat is brown and gold with I believe gold flake, it needs a hot foot and has a manuel jack plate that i want to replace with hydrolic,it did come with hydrolic steering, well hope to learn alot on here and make some friends,,, layta,,,,Larry

[VultureNo2]

Welcome Larry, nice boat. Bill

[77viper]

My vegas came with a 25 high five, it's a fairly good hole shot prop. If your going out with some weight in the boat try a trophy if you are running by yourself a chopper style will work the best. If you can hook up with some other boaters try and use any prop you can get your hands on it is a good way to find a good prop for your boat how you will be using it.

If you still have the oil injection I wouldn't run it past 6000 and wouldn't hold it there for miles. The oil pump is run off a plastic gear on the crankshaft.

[Surface Scratcher]

Welcome to the forum, Larry. I'll bet you're gonna love tour YT hull. Check out these two articles. These boats have the same bottom as yours.

http://www.hydrostream.org/InterestArticles/ValeroHB.pdf

http://www.hydrostream.org/InterestArticles/86Props.pdf

[landolarry]

putting new bearings in the trailer now,,,,just so it's one less thang to worry about,,,read those 2 articles and thats what I had planned on doing anyway so thanks for putting them up,,,going camping next weekend at the river wife asks are we taking the boat,,,,some times ya just gotta smile and walk away,,,,,,,,,Bahahahahahaha