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Hi Guys,
My name is Shawn and I am the new and 3rd owner of a 99 Python powered Super Sport. The drive train and handling are prefect but I am in the process of getting most of the main lounge seat bottoms and sun pad recovered and I need to spend some quality time with the buffer to brighten the gel coat back up so there will be many more pics once I get that all sorted. Overall the boat is in great shape and I can’t wipe the smile off my face every time I hit the throttle and that beast comes to life, or I take off from that perfect wake!
I know there aren’t too many Python 210s out there so I was hoping you guys could answer a few questions for me. First is there enough room for 750# sacs on either side of the motor? I know with the small blocks there is room but wanted to make sure I have room for them before I placed my order. Will I need to beef up the existing 2 piece dividers or fabricate my own so that full sacs aren’t pushing the dividers towards the engine? I haven’t installed my dividers yet because I am doing a full tune up this weekend and knew I would just be taking them back out so I am not sure how sturdy they are. Is it the Fly High rear seat sac that almost fills up that huge in-floor locker? I am not sure I would ever need to fill both 750s to board but want the ability to slam the corner for surfing. But if both 750s are full will that in floor locker be enough forward weight or am I going to want more up in the nose? Does the under bow sac (I have the walk through bow with filler cushion) fill up enough to make it worth it or I am better off with a little lead and my anchor in the nose? I plan to fill up manually this season and then plumb the bags in with some Jabscos this winter when I have time to do it right.
I was also wondering what prop you Python guys are running? It currently has a 3 blade on it and it surprisingly performs pretty well even when we were boarding with a 500# sac in the bow, another one on the floor in the rear of the lounge and 5 passengers on board. I know the boat should be running a 4 blade but with the above set up it came up on my plane quickly and held 23-24 without issue at about 2500 RPM IIRC. I mainly wakeboard but will do some surfing. My usual lake isn’t very big but a few times a summer I venture to bigger lakes so the ability to cruise close to 30 MPH at a reasonable RPM would be nice but if I had to swap to my old prop for the big lake vacations that wouldn’t be too big of a hassle for me. I am not too concerned about losing a few MPHs off the top end but would hope I could still hit 40 for the occasional long line barefoot run. I haven’t GPS’d my speedos yet but they feel accurate. Since I hit 46 MPH with ease in a decent wind chop I don’t think I have to worry too much about losing that barefoot speed but if I do it’s far from a deal breaker. From reading a few other threads I am thinking the ACME 1236 or 1464 is probably what I want but curious what other python owners are running? Thanks for any help you guys can provide! Here is a pic of it on the ramp with the previous owner (hopefully it uploaded correctly) but I promise to post plenty more once she is cleaned up.
My name is Shawn and I am the new and 3rd owner of a 99 Python powered Super Sport. The drive train and handling are prefect but I am in the process of getting most of the main lounge seat bottoms and sun pad recovered and I need to spend some quality time with the buffer to brighten the gel coat back up so there will be many more pics once I get that all sorted. Overall the boat is in great shape and I can’t wipe the smile off my face every time I hit the throttle and that beast comes to life, or I take off from that perfect wake!
I know there aren’t too many Python 210s out there so I was hoping you guys could answer a few questions for me. First is there enough room for 750# sacs on either side of the motor? I know with the small blocks there is room but wanted to make sure I have room for them before I placed my order. Will I need to beef up the existing 2 piece dividers or fabricate my own so that full sacs aren’t pushing the dividers towards the engine? I haven’t installed my dividers yet because I am doing a full tune up this weekend and knew I would just be taking them back out so I am not sure how sturdy they are. Is it the Fly High rear seat sac that almost fills up that huge in-floor locker? I am not sure I would ever need to fill both 750s to board but want the ability to slam the corner for surfing. But if both 750s are full will that in floor locker be enough forward weight or am I going to want more up in the nose? Does the under bow sac (I have the walk through bow with filler cushion) fill up enough to make it worth it or I am better off with a little lead and my anchor in the nose? I plan to fill up manually this season and then plumb the bags in with some Jabscos this winter when I have time to do it right.
I was also wondering what prop you Python guys are running? It currently has a 3 blade on it and it surprisingly performs pretty well even when we were boarding with a 500# sac in the bow, another one on the floor in the rear of the lounge and 5 passengers on board. I know the boat should be running a 4 blade but with the above set up it came up on my plane quickly and held 23-24 without issue at about 2500 RPM IIRC. I mainly wakeboard but will do some surfing. My usual lake isn’t very big but a few times a summer I venture to bigger lakes so the ability to cruise close to 30 MPH at a reasonable RPM would be nice but if I had to swap to my old prop for the big lake vacations that wouldn’t be too big of a hassle for me. I am not too concerned about losing a few MPHs off the top end but would hope I could still hit 40 for the occasional long line barefoot run. I haven’t GPS’d my speedos yet but they feel accurate. Since I hit 46 MPH with ease in a decent wind chop I don’t think I have to worry too much about losing that barefoot speed but if I do it’s far from a deal breaker. From reading a few other threads I am thinking the ACME 1236 or 1464 is probably what I want but curious what other python owners are running? Thanks for any help you guys can provide! Here is a pic of it on the ramp with the previous owner (hopefully it uploaded correctly) but I promise to post plenty more once she is cleaned up.
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