Bryan Rose
09-13-2005, 02:26 PM
Hate to put this here but it gets the most traffic....Plus if I get it right it wll get me to the sandbar to get beers faster.......plus provide beers faster...
Well in my quest of finding the right prop for this boat 97 27 ZX step hull, I was advised by Julie at Throttle Up props to do some measuring. Well I had her on the phone and was doing the measurements. I took a stright edge off the bottom of the keel with the drive trinmmed paralell with the keel and measured to the propshaft center line. The result 8 inches, she said no good, this put my lower cav plate 1/2 inch above the keel line and I was told now I am dragging this through the water also. Now she has advised me to put a 2 in shorter drive on it to get a little more efficiency out of this set up....... none of this makes any sense, I can already blow the prop out with the throttle ,would making the drive higher worse? .................................................. .. Help!
Now I am really confused .........Fasttrucker where is your drive in relation to the bottom of the keel?
Anyone else care to help......
Bryan
Well in my quest of finding the right prop for this boat 97 27 ZX step hull, I was advised by Julie at Throttle Up props to do some measuring. Well I had her on the phone and was doing the measurements. I took a stright edge off the bottom of the keel with the drive trinmmed paralell with the keel and measured to the propshaft center line. The result 8 inches, she said no good, this put my lower cav plate 1/2 inch above the keel line and I was told now I am dragging this through the water also. Now she has advised me to put a 2 in shorter drive on it to get a little more efficiency out of this set up....... none of this makes any sense, I can already blow the prop out with the throttle ,would making the drive higher worse? .................................................. .. Help!
Now I am really confused .........Fasttrucker where is your drive in relation to the bottom of the keel?
Anyone else care to help......
Bryan