A Stiletto has to be driven a few inches higher than you are doing. If you drive it too low you get much less RPM and more chinewalk. 1" could make 300 rpm more....
A Stiletto has to be driven a few inches higher than you are doing. If you drive it too low you get much less RPM and more chinewalk. 1" could make 300 rpm more....
it ventilates ALOT. i only have to trim a little to get on plane.... if i ran it any higher, i dont think it would need trim at all.
What do we reckon the ideal situation for prop / adjustment is then?
I am running the same setup and hitting around 45mph with 2 up, full load of fuel at 4600rpm on standard prop.
Burning 4gal/hr at 3500rpm
Thats about the same as i was getting with the standard 17" prop and engine was labouring a bit a slow cruising speed . i fitted a turningpoint stainless 15" pitch and the revs went up to about 5200 , top speed didn't improve but holeshot and midrange was much better and the fuel consumption improved a lot , probably 25% better
I have never worked out what mine uses in an hour , just roughly how many miles i have done and what it takes to fill up . My comment meant I was getting the same prop performance .
10 litres an hour sounds very frugal but I guess for an average day out we probably are actually motoring for about 3 hrs and I usually use about 30 litres of fuel but 3 hrs at say 25knots is about 75 miles and i reckon mine does about 1/2litre a mile so not far off then
