[Seacrets]

If you don't feel a miss at idle to over 5k rpm, you don't have a miss. *If you're still running a 17" pitch prop on a 225 on a 20' boat, I still feel that's your problem. *The previous owner may have been happy with 42 mph. I just repowered with another 150 hp with a 17" four blade prop and I hit 44.7 mph by gps. *It would be faster by about 2 mph if it was a three blade prop. *As mentioned before, my prop came off my 225 hp that was installed on a 97 sea ray laguna 24' boat. *It was alot heavier than my V20 and it ran at 47 mph. *On the 150 hp I hit 5500 rpm which is the max for my engine. *If you haven't yet, I'd talk to a prop shop before I'd tear into other things. *Do a Yahoo search for honda outboard motor test and click on fiberglass, 225 hp and the lowest pitched prop on a 20' boat was 23 and most with a 25" pitch. Some are go fast boats, but look at the pitchs on the 23's. They aren't 17" props. Just my $.02.