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HST with Yamaha Pro V
Hi Randy,
I have the above mentioned engine which is bone stock except for the
exhaust work. It's a 1993 Pro-V 200. I believe that motor is the same
power head as a 225 Yamaha but choked down w/ the stock tuner which I've
pulled off. I've put a tuner on it (G-5?) and pulled the liner, drilled
holes above the cavitation plate; 4 on each side at 3/8" each.
I'm wanting more. I've spoken to a couple of people and thought I'd
throw this past you too. I am planning to install a set of 220 heads and
want to bore my carbs out to 36 mm from stock 34mm. Is this a good place
to start? Also, I've been advised to go w/ a custom set of heads (92
octane friendly), bored carbs, and a flywheel. I've been told this will
net me fairly significant gains in the 270 hp range. Sound right? I'd like
to steer from porting at this time. How about l/u? I have a nose
cone on a stock l/u w/the p/u's on the side above the prop shaft. I'm
thinking of changing the entire l/u to one with low water pick up's along
with a "whale tail" on the cavitation plate and a blow out ring.
Good plan? In short Randy, I wanting to mid 90's and hope this will
get me there.
In the event you can help, and I've been told you could, I'd drive my boat
down there and have you dial it in for me. I'm running 12" set back
(manual) and still trying to find the sweet spot as far as height. I do a
little skiing. I have a 29 SRX 14 and a 1/4 which appears to be over
the hub exhaust and a High five 25" for skiing. I currently spin at
6300 rpm. I bought this boat in ‘94 and the key tag is an Avon Marine
tag. It's a bruiser colored boat, black w/ blue metal flake and it
had an 88 Yamaha (200) on it when I bought it. I've changed the seats
since.
Thanks in advance,
Colin Bodley
Winnipeg, Canada
89 HST
Colin,
I remember your boat. Rick Powers used to own it and it ran in the mid to
high 90's then. You have most of the right stuff already, props, tuner,
etc. Removing the liner and drilling the holes probably hurt the power
output. I've tried it in the past and it always went backwards on
performance. I suspect the Yamaha needs some backpressure to run at the
rpm it likes. (7000 and below) If I had your boat I'd run the 220
head and cut it .050". This will give you the best pump gas head and
I've tried them all. I tried a bunch of 36mm carbs but didn't see a thing
in a gain. The intake is the flow restriction, but it only needs to be
changed if you plan on spinning over 7000. The motor would need massive
porting changes to run and make power at those rpms. The heads with the
timing set at 25 degrees, with the 225 pipe, will make 240 to 250 crank
HP. The next thing will take you to 270+ hp. The exhaust port height on
the top 4 cylinders is different than the bottom 2. You need to match the
top 4 to the bottom 2. On some motors this was over .060". Yamaha
does this to make the motor a better bass motor. I found on a boat like
your HST it was up to 500 rpm. The gearcase is fine and if you run the
gearcase above the bottom you will find the thing will pound itself apart.
The bearing carrier and propshaft are not the most robust. I always tried
to make the boat work with the gearcase propshaft at about 1/2" below
the bottom. This is why the setback is so short compared to other Merc
powered HSTs. I found that you can go 100 plus with the propshaft at that
height, so no worries. If you do the porting and the heads with the 29 RX
you'll have a clone to my personal HST that I had in 1989 and '90. That
boat would go just under 100 and your boat had a 200 like this when Rick
had it. It ran about the same, so your goal is in easy reach. The stock
vertical reed 200 it had was put on before the boat went to Canada.
In the past I've run just about every mod part for Yamaha's out there. I
blew up a lot of motors using other peoples " heads and carb
conversions". The Yamaha parts I've suggested we've used on at least
50 motors. The combo plain works. More importantly it doesn't cost you
thousands of dollars to blow stuff up. If the porting is something you
don't want to tackle, call me or e-mail me at gpiracing@charter.net
. I think you can have an excellent HST and hope this gets you thinking
over the cold weather that is now upon us.
Randy
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Thanks,
Mark C.
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