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Originally Posted by Outrageous
So how did it work after running for the season? Any issues? Hope you caught some fish!
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The new muffler worked out well and I really noticed the reduced noise from the muffler. No issues at all and the motor ran fine with it.
Had a problem with the motor in the midst of the season and it would stumble and bog at anything over 2600 RPMS. Took me about three weekends to diagnose and the problem was resolved after I rebuilt (my first) quadrajet carb. In the midst of troubleshooting my engine the distributor decided to die as well so at one point I was diagnosing two issues at the same time which made for some real WTF moments!
Unfortunately, my engine problems coincided with our local inshore bluefin bite and once I fixed my issues the fish had moved down Cape! Other than that did a lot of bass / blues and bottom fishing with the kids. We have had a pretty great late summer and early fall with the false albies.
Biggest improvement I made was I increased my prop to a 17 X 17 from the crappy 16 X 15. I picked up almost 3 knots of speed at cruise and now am able to run 20 -22 knots at 2950 rpm which makes the fuel burn drop significantly down to around 10-11 gallons an hour. On the old prop I had to run it up to 3150 to get that cruise speed. Now if push it up to that RPM I get a pretty consistent 25 knot cruise. Only downside is the bigger prop does create a fair amount of prop rumble that is definitely noticeable.