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**Halon** · 08-01-2010

Craig,

Thanks for the link. I have actually done all that research already though

We got that size for a reason. The boat came with a 21 pitch prop. It still worked great but it got destroyed in the St Croix. Before I bought a new prop I did a lot of reading up, and decided on the 19 pitch prop since we mainly use this boat for watersports, or just cruising around not at WOT. This boat spends most of it's life at less than 35mph.

So I now have 2 props. One is a 14.25 x 19p and the other is a 14.5 x 19p. They work perfect for what we use it for. They are both 3-blade aluminum props. We tend to venture to different lakes a lot, so we prefer having a regular aluminum prop as we often have no idea what the lake is like as far as depth and what not (and we haven't gotten a depth finder yet). So I'd much rather just tear up a weak cheap aluminum prop, rather than a nice SS one or the lower unit. I much prefer the cheap aluminum prop be the weak link that gets busted.

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Halon Pewp Champion Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Blaine Drives: Teh Bean Posts: 12,309	Re: 5.0L Top Speed Test Craig, Thanks for the link. I have actually done all that research already though We got that size for a reason. The boat came with a 21 pitch prop. It still worked great but it got destroyed in the St Croix. Before I bought a new prop I did a lot of reading up, and decided on the 19 pitch prop since we mainly use this boat for watersports, or just cruising around not at WOT. This boat spends most of it's life at less than 35mph. So I now have 2 props. One is a 14.25 x 19p and the other is a 14.5 x 19p. They work perfect for what we use it for. They are both 3-blade aluminum props. We tend to venture to different lakes a lot, so we prefer having a regular aluminum prop as we often have no idea what the lake is like as far as depth and what not (and we haven't gotten a depth finder yet). So I'd much rather just tear up a weak cheap aluminum prop, rather than a nice SS one or the lower unit. I much prefer the cheap aluminum prop be the weak link that gets busted. __________________ B-Man - FlexFuel Mafia 1991 TSi AWD E85 - BEP S362, DSMLink V2, Built 2.0L Idle Vid 628hp Graph 541hp Vid 10.93@137 Vid 1992 SC300 E85 - BW 84-75, Vlad Infinity, NA-T, 6spd Idle Vid 709hp Graph 709hp Vid 11.1@131 Vid 2006 Bayliner 195 - Carbed 5.0 Top Speed Test Last edited by Halon; 08-01-2010 at 11:33 PM..