Suzuki DF 140's - Page 5

snoozer · #41 05-12-2008, 06:22 PM

Well, you want speed eh?
With a full tank? With an empty tank? With the three fat guys I usually have with me?
Are you gonna race the boat? Do you have to catch a bus? Is someone chasing you?
Do you want them speeds in light chop or flat calm? Do you want them in miles per hour or knots per hour? Do you want to know how many coats of paint are on the bottom? With the motor trimmed or not? Does it matter to you how the boat is trimmed? Would you like to know the pitch of the prop too?
How can anyone answer your questions if you don't ask them correctly?
I can give you a list of numbers junior, but they will mean very little unless you know where they came from. 20, 23, 26.

Phat, I don't have anything down that way yet. Except the numbers that everyone knows.
Crabs were off this year, but lobsters were good, at least for us.
I used to fish with a guy out of Big Pine. He knew a lot of coral heads between Honda and the back country. He wouldn't tell me either. But on a calm day, just idle along and look, that's how I find them. I have been visiting a lot of the spots around Marathon that I find on old charts and the internet, most are long gone. The 'canes covered and tore up an awful lot of good producing spots. The game boys have been active too, in trying to find habitats, but they may as well be blindfolded.

phatdaddy · #42 05-12-2008, 09:53 PM

I used to know some locals @ big pine who would take out old car hoods and put them on the flats. damn near impossible to spot and no profile on a sounder. flip that over & it looks like roaches in a pantry.

thanks anyway

snoozer · #43 05-12-2008, 10:50 PM

The 'canes took the car hoods away. Now the Game boys are looking from the air. They spend more of our taxes than they are worth. The only time they catch anyone is when someone squeels or gets pictures to show them. Shoot me a reminder email when you get down here, we can get a beer.

snoozer · #44 05-17-2008, 09:40 PM

OK Two new coats of bottom paint, new plugs and fresh oil.
6200 rpm wot, 31.5 Kts. With the wind, one foot chop. Full tank, two aboard.
Against the wind, 6100+/- wot, 30.9 Kts. 18/14 wheel.

randlemanboater · #45 05-18-2008, 09:21 AM

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Originally Posted by snoozer

OK Two new coats of bottom paint, new plugs and fresh oil.
6200 rpm wot, 31.5 Kts. With the wind, one foot chop. Full tank, two aboard.
Against the wind, 6100+/- wot, 30.9 Kts. 18/14 wheel.

So your saying that you cruise at WOT? Thats weird.

Seriously Snoozer, when you bust that prop on a trap going that fast, you should try a 19 or 20 pitch, I think you will like the rpm reduction.

snoozer · #46 05-18-2008, 02:55 PM

Well Randle, I have no intention of going that fast. But it was a test to see if the motor would go a taller wheel. It looks like it will. The next up stainless is a 20 I think. I'll order one tomorrow.

I want to run this motor in the low fours, so that should give me a little more SPEED. I want to keep up with the jones-es.

randlemanboater · #47 05-18-2008, 04:52 PM

I had trouble finding a 20 pitch in the same diameter, they were all a quarter inch smaller around, so I got the 21p......it is probably slightly too much, but I never run WOT anyways.

snoozer · #48 05-24-2008, 07:40 AM

New 14 X 20 wheel. 4200 rpm - 24.9 kts.
Old 14 X 18 wheel, 4200 rpm - 20.4 kts
I like it.

randlemanboater · #49 05-26-2008, 07:39 AM

Cool deal.....what brand prop did you get?

snoozer · #50 05-27-2008, 08:34 AM

I got it right from the Suzuki dealer, $370.
Now I got a spare. I like the boat better with this one eventhough it takes longer to get up on plane. I don't do hole shots, so it's no big deal.
Wot is somewhere in the middle 5000's. I didn't get a chance to get a long enough run at it the other day, to tell exactly.