TSC1 Nautique Top Speed?

Which prop are you running?

45 sounds maybe right to me. 4 blade should give lower top end. I think Tim Benj is the best to answer this.

Yep.. I just docked up.. lake was flat and I ran WOT for 2-3 minutes with 4 adults and 6 little kids at 47ish at 4700rpm. I also run the 422. The elevation where I am is 2,465' above sea level.

Trying to find out more about this boat and what it can do.

TSC1 with carbon parts

I know they stripped out most interior and put a few carbon mods on it. and moved the gas tank to the front of the boat. I am guessing they improved the hole shot but top end remains just shy of 50.

Moon looks great.. full tomorrow.

Paul, you nailed me... here with friends till Wednesday night... Hopefully it rains so I can ski! If I keep this up I will need turn signals on my boat so I can merge into traffic lol... They will be gone this time tomorrow.

422 spinning 4900ish puts me at around 46, and that boat is screamin' at that speed. I feel like the Fords are actually pissed off at the higher RPMs while the Chevys don't even seem to sweat it. Either way 46 for a GT40 is basically amazing from what I've seen.

YouTube Vid from a while back of me WOT

Man, we never run over 4200 rpm(lanier is a busy lake) with the stock 3 blade and the fresh air exhaust that puts us at 40 mph.
From what I read, the FAE takes about 2mph off due to different back pressure.
So 45 ish seems to be the magic number

I push the throttle down as far as it will go... And I always want more! What's with everyone thinking they're going to damage something if you actually go WOT? Don't be scared!

How many people on here over rev'd an engine on a CC? Should this be a new thread? Bc I'm always told give it to it and the thought of being sans a ski machine for a few months worries me.

Orlando76 wrote: How many people on here over rev'd an engine on a CC?

There was a time where I babied the boats/cars that I drove. Then I realized 1) these engines were designed with this kind of use in mind, 2) it is more fun to drive it a bit harder and 3) sometimes by driving a performance engine "softly" you can do more harm than good (e.g. as I understand it, shifting gears in a car at low RPMs to "save fuel" is actually much harder on the tranny).

So now I make sure to thrash my engines from time to time and as long as that doesn't become systematic abuse I don't think it hurts anything. Of course I could be wrong, in which case somebody set me straight.

Geez, when we are out barefooting, We run WOT for 2 or 3 hours a night. Now that is only for 3 to 4 minutes (probably more like 2 or 3 minutes) at a time and then idle in between, but still it's WOT or close to WOT. I always thought they were designed to run like that.

I agree with Tim, when I roll that throttle to the stops, I always am looking for more too...

Mark
My ’95 runs the same numbers as yours GPS. I’m running a 1442 but our hull is different.
I run it wide open a lot(cause I like to) those RPMs wont hurt these motors

Cherry MC Joel! Love the black ones... I find most are silver then blue. Our 83 is red metal flake.

I backed off ours this past weekend at 4900 RPMs cause I remember reading something in the manual about it.

She had more and I wanted to keep going, but I was worried I was going to regret it. Needless to say she hit about 45. Not bad for 1700+ hours.

Pegged? In what direction?

A hard run followed by a return to idle can sometimes cause the temp to creep up 10-20 deg... Any more than that and something isn't right. You shouldn't see the temp creeping up while you're at speed- that's not normal either. You should be able to run at high rpm for extended periods (think barefooting) without issue.

No.