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vector performance
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Re: vector performance
/\ EXACT issue I had with my 30 pitch chopper. Worked ok with passengers, first time I was out by myself I almost went for a swim. Going down in pitch helped, but I can't wait to try out a cleaver. A v6 on my boat doesn't need the bow lift a chopper gives.
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1990 Hydrostream Virage Stage 3 Turbo
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Re: vector performance
ill get some pics this week! help look at angle of attack
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Re: vector performance
Please keep in mind, my advice here is for a 225+ horsepower Vector, it is not "all purpose", each boat needs to be examined individually.
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Re: vector performance
correction.......bottom of prop shaft even with pad now. just measured....go up from there?
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Re: vector performance
You can go a bit higher, say the centerline of the propshaft an inch above the bottom of the pad, but my original thought about raising the motor was to try and kill some of the excess lift from your current prop. If you're going to run a different prop, and the boat handles ok, then you don't need to change height until you settle on a prop. In fact, I like to run the engine as low as the boat will allow (until the handling gets bad, or it gets too slow), to make life easier on the gearcase.YDOC462 wrote:correction.......bottom of prop shaft even with pad now. just measured....go up from there?
transomstand
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Re: vector performance
I really like the srx. God hole shot, awesome acceleration. might keep it for a load carrying prop. built the boat to run the family and friends out to the sand bar. Gonna look for a cleaver for top end solo runs. boat handles great, have no complaints.
Pete....I sat down last night and had a talk with the up trim button. hes a lil mad our relationship has to change.
thanks for all the input
Pete....I sat down last night and had a talk with the up trim button. hes a lil mad our relationship has to change.
thanks for all the input
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Re: vector performance
That's 99% of the battle right there.YDOC462 wrote: boat handles great, have no complaints.
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Re: vector performance
So what you're saying Pete is I need a 30P chopper with LOTS of cup......since I don't have 225hp and alltransomstand wrote:Please keep in mind, my advice here is for a 225+ horsepower .........
1976 Hydrostream Viper - 2.5 EFI
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Re: vector performance
I think you need one them luminum jobs
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Re: vector performance
All fun-n-games till you get "whooped on" by an aluminum job thats been beat on with a hammer over a trailer ball!transomstand wrote:I think you need one them luminum jobs
Just my .02 - mine ran GREAT with my 28 small ear I had John Janaky do his magic on......until.....I swapped powerheads and went from low/mid 80's to low/mid 90's. Anything over 90 and its a crap shoot as to whether I'm going to lay down a solid number if the stars align, or just an ambulance. I think a tuned-up ET is where I'll end up and "should" work for the Viper/Vector and I hope to give a cleaver a whirl this season just to satisfy my curiousity as I haven't ever run the boat fast enough to warrant its use until recently. Cleavers are not the best at planing off and while I don't necessarily want/need a wheel that will bite hard and launch the entire boat out of the water when I stab it, the stigma of laziness of the cleavers out of the hole is a sticking point for me....always has been.
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