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metraman
07-12-2004, 06:31 PM
Not being familiar with this drive is the rust colored line a problem and does this have a nose cone on it?
Thanks

Greg Maier
07-12-2004, 06:39 PM
Yes, it has a nose cone on it, and the rust colored line is probably some mud that was sucked up into the water intake and has drained out.

metraman
07-13-2004, 07:47 AM
Thanks Greg Do you have a feel for a MPH increase the cone is worth?

Dredgeking
07-13-2004, 08:00 AM
depending on some things like drive height, the nose cone could decrease speed due to the increase in surface area which equals drag.

Ranman
07-13-2004, 09:58 AM
It does look like a nose cone, but a rather blunt one. Most I see today come to a pretty sharp point. In most cases, even the sharp ones have little to no top speed effect on boats that run less than 70-75MPH. A nose cones *real* purpose is to increase the speed at which prop blowout occurs. If on a given application prop blowout occurs at 85MPH a nose cone may raise that threshold to 100MPH. Anyway, on that drive, I doubt it does much of anything.

metraman
07-13-2004, 10:16 AM
What exactly is blowout? I had it running 75 [GPS] last week its still a handful. I should have a new prop in a few days maybe it will be easier to handle. Thanks