catfish123
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OK guys, some of you knew that I was having the limiter raised on my 2004 225X on my 1999 XB2003. I took the boat back up to the mountain lake, elevation about 950 ft above sea level on Saturday morning. I ran the boat quite a lot by myself mainly with my 26 ET and my 26 Chopper II. Let me say that ALL the props I have, have been worked so that must be considered when making comparisons between the "old" and the "new". Anyone who has had a personal best speed for a long time knows just how difficult it can be to better that number. Let me say that on Saturday, with the 26 ET, acceleration was noticeably better and especially at pretty fast speeds, the acceleration was really better. I had a full tank of gas, and the 26 ET ran 90.7 at 7180 rpm's as compared to the 86 it used to hit at 6850. Remember guys, I'm a rather chunky, lol, 60 year old guy who has a tough time bumping the trim the last time or two because of some prior scares. I just knew this prop would go better with my son driving. The 26 Chopper II has always been a very difficult prop to spin up and it remains that way but it ran 90.8 with old scardy pants in it right around 6950 rpms. I personally had only seen 89 something before with it. My son had run it previously to 90. (I had incorrectly posted before that it was 91.)
Anyway, I was very happy with those results and my son surprised my by driving a total of 250 miles to come up today, Sunday morning, even though he could only stay about 2 hours because he had to go back to our home town to work. We went to the lake at 7:30AM and the air temp was 40 degrees. A bit of a breeze was blowing. Here comes the results!!! He ran with the trolling motor on for these speeds and 25 gallons of gas. He hit 92.3 with the 26 Chopper II at 7140 compared to 90 at 6850. All the runs were on a fairly short stretch of lake about 1.5 mile. He hit 91.8 with the 26 ET at 7240 as compared to 86 at 6850. He hit 96.2, our best speed ever in 9 years of trying at 7080 with the 30 Chopper II as compared to 95.9 at 6850 before. He then ran it again to 7100 and got 96.7 and finally we took the trolling motor off, still about 20 gallons of gas. He hit 97.1 mph at 7120.
He told me that on a longer stretch of water, he KNOWS it will go still faster! The 30 Chopper II was always harder to get to the limiter than the 30 ET although previously they both had hit exactly 95.9. So we put the 30 ET on expecting maybe even a bigger number. On the first pass right in front on me, Matthew had gone .6 of a mile and was at 91 mph as recorded on the handheld GPS when it fell off the pad, the nose dropped suddenly and it was instant bat turn. In 9 years, we only had it hook on us once but it wasn't near this severe. We are very lucky. He may be bruised a little, but he stayed in the boat. We both decided it was time to put the boat on the trailer and take it home for the winter. We won't run it again for about 5 to 6 months. It will be a long winter waiting to see what can be obtained on top end with that 30 ET or with the 30 Chopper II on a longer stretch. I AM telling it like it is and I was very impressed with the increased acceleration and higher numbers. Matthew told me that 95 now was very easy with this new setup where before it was really tough to hit. My battery tray was ripped from the floor, it was on it's side and my dual pro charger was also "relocated", lol, and broken so I guess I need a new one. Overall, I'm extremely happy with the work Eric Simon did on my motor. He is a great guy and I would recommend these modifications to anyone. I sent my flywheel and ECU to him in California from Pennsylvania, and I had it back in a total of 3 days.
I'm just so thankful the good Lord was looking over Matthew this morning because I was REALLY upset by what happened. Sort of puts a whole different perspective on this need for a higher topend number. Sorry, I don't have time to proof read all this now but I'm going to submit it anyway.
Have a great day guys.
Bob
Anyway, I was very happy with those results and my son surprised my by driving a total of 250 miles to come up today, Sunday morning, even though he could only stay about 2 hours because he had to go back to our home town to work. We went to the lake at 7:30AM and the air temp was 40 degrees. A bit of a breeze was blowing. Here comes the results!!! He ran with the trolling motor on for these speeds and 25 gallons of gas. He hit 92.3 with the 26 Chopper II at 7140 compared to 90 at 6850. All the runs were on a fairly short stretch of lake about 1.5 mile. He hit 91.8 with the 26 ET at 7240 as compared to 86 at 6850. He hit 96.2, our best speed ever in 9 years of trying at 7080 with the 30 Chopper II as compared to 95.9 at 6850 before. He then ran it again to 7100 and got 96.7 and finally we took the trolling motor off, still about 20 gallons of gas. He hit 97.1 mph at 7120.
He told me that on a longer stretch of water, he KNOWS it will go still faster! The 30 Chopper II was always harder to get to the limiter than the 30 ET although previously they both had hit exactly 95.9. So we put the 30 ET on expecting maybe even a bigger number. On the first pass right in front on me, Matthew had gone .6 of a mile and was at 91 mph as recorded on the handheld GPS when it fell off the pad, the nose dropped suddenly and it was instant bat turn. In 9 years, we only had it hook on us once but it wasn't near this severe. We are very lucky. He may be bruised a little, but he stayed in the boat. We both decided it was time to put the boat on the trailer and take it home for the winter. We won't run it again for about 5 to 6 months. It will be a long winter waiting to see what can be obtained on top end with that 30 ET or with the 30 Chopper II on a longer stretch. I AM telling it like it is and I was very impressed with the increased acceleration and higher numbers. Matthew told me that 95 now was very easy with this new setup where before it was really tough to hit. My battery tray was ripped from the floor, it was on it's side and my dual pro charger was also "relocated", lol, and broken so I guess I need a new one. Overall, I'm extremely happy with the work Eric Simon did on my motor. He is a great guy and I would recommend these modifications to anyone. I sent my flywheel and ECU to him in California from Pennsylvania, and I had it back in a total of 3 days.
I'm just so thankful the good Lord was looking over Matthew this morning because I was REALLY upset by what happened. Sort of puts a whole different perspective on this need for a higher topend number. Sorry, I don't have time to proof read all this now but I'm going to submit it anyway.
Have a great day guys.
Bob
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