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Old 06-18-2014, 11:41 PM
pitbull pitbull is offline
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Soooo been working on my 89 stratos 201, second power head seems to be Strong, but still was lacking in top end speed... Started prop shopping and got an Rk4 4 blade from power tech, couldn't turn it even at just a 24p... It had a bit too much cup added to it... So I hit up performance propeller and traded for a cupped raker 24 3 blade, and bam and instant 4mph improvement from 50 GPS to 54, lowered the Jack plate an inch and got 57.5 GPS, lowered it another 3/4 but decided the water pressure was too low and tore it down for an impeller swap. Hopefully tomorrow I'll see what the 3/4in drop did... Damn water logged foam.... Love the ride though, I can take the worst center hill can offer on its busiest day and keep trucking, but I fish a lot of tournaments and getting in the 60's means I can beat some of the others to the good spots! Lol, except for the Allison, I'll just have to get used to seeing the back of that one...
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Old 06-19-2014, 05:41 AM
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Yeah good luck catching the Allison! Haha


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Old 06-19-2014, 06:30 AM
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Yeah good luck catching the Allison! Haha


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x2 on that one!

For all you know he may have it stroked with stock decals on it. Those boats have always been a fav for those lead foot guys.
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Old 06-19-2014, 07:50 AM
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Nah its stock with a venom 200, with 2 of us in it 75 didn't seem to be much of a task, but its all plastic inside and has half the deck space I do... I'm envious of the speed, but I'd rather fish out of mine any day...
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