Just completely rebuilt the boat, stringers, transom, floor the whole 9 yards.
Previous owner said he couldn’t run over 62 mph with boat.
the old motor I also found a bad cylinder, now has a much stronger 99’ 200 merc.
im running on a borrowed prop, a 23 Solas scorpion, A T1 copy with a whole lot stronger cup profile.
when I first purchased the boat, 62 is all I could muster with the 23 scorpion, chine walk was non existent.
i ran the boat Saturday, granite the lake was rough, but this boat now chine walks brutally. I did have the motor way to deep, like 3.5” under pad. This prop feels like I can lift the entire boat out of the water as I trim. I found the boat to run the best at a nuetral trim. I have zero gps data atm the moment since rebuild. Only had my phone gps. It said 58 mph. But I don’t think it had caught up yet, I felt like we were running every bit of 65-68. My bass tracker runs 55. I’m looking for low 70s, with minimal chine walk. 25 tempest? Or 25 trophy plus? I feel safe turning this motor to 6000.