Texasmark
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Felt like fooling around today so I took the 24XP Ballistic off my engine and put the 21 back on. I only ran it once after I bought it and that was a year ago. Forgot how it performed. Thinking about going to the coast and fishing the shallow brackish lagoons and don't want to ding up the "baby". Additionally will be doing a lot of 15-20 mph running and will be pulling a lot of wake....lotta load on the engine.
Holeshot instantaneous. Only doing 20ish mph at 3200ish so mpg will surely suck, but for the slow running I mentioned, it's perfect as the engine is nice and relaxed under the load....can tell by the way it sounds and responds to throttle changes.
Hammered down on it from about 4000 and the rpm's shot up to 6000 and once the boat got up to speed (caught up with the prop 8) ), 6500 was a piece of cake. Engine sounded sweet, like it wanted more. Backed off a couple of times and goosed it and she just loved it.
I had a mid '80's 4 cyl 85 Merc and it wasn't near as frisky as this 3 cyl........if I only had that 4th cylinder when I'm idling......to stop my clutch dog rattle....which was much quieter with this prop (lighter and less pitch).
So, what's the point of this thread? Don't know. Guess it's for the guy that's worried about a couple hundred rpm's over max rating hurting his engine. I didn't have a tach on my 85 so I don't know where it was running. But since then my Mercs seem to love the high rpm's, like my '89 115 tower WOT'd at 6000 and that's where I ran it .....for 7 years and my son-in-law has been running it there since then. If I can believe the tach on my son's 150 it runs 6000 at WOT and has been doing that since '95.
Mark
Mark
Holeshot instantaneous. Only doing 20ish mph at 3200ish so mpg will surely suck, but for the slow running I mentioned, it's perfect as the engine is nice and relaxed under the load....can tell by the way it sounds and responds to throttle changes.
Hammered down on it from about 4000 and the rpm's shot up to 6000 and once the boat got up to speed (caught up with the prop 8) ), 6500 was a piece of cake. Engine sounded sweet, like it wanted more. Backed off a couple of times and goosed it and she just loved it.
I had a mid '80's 4 cyl 85 Merc and it wasn't near as frisky as this 3 cyl........if I only had that 4th cylinder when I'm idling......to stop my clutch dog rattle....which was much quieter with this prop (lighter and less pitch).
So, what's the point of this thread? Don't know. Guess it's for the guy that's worried about a couple hundred rpm's over max rating hurting his engine. I didn't have a tach on my 85 so I don't know where it was running. But since then my Mercs seem to love the high rpm's, like my '89 115 tower WOT'd at 6000 and that's where I ran it .....for 7 years and my son-in-law has been running it there since then. If I can believe the tach on my son's 150 it runs 6000 at WOT and has been doing that since '95.
Mark
Mark
