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Old 02-01-2004, 10:27 AM
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I am curious as to what type of speeds people are seeing out of the bullets and cafe racers with various power. I expect will be large range depending on stock vs. heavy HP.
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A Bullet with 454 Mags/Bravo1's will run 64 mph.
HP 500's will get you 73-75 mph
600HP will get you 80-82

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There have also been some people with Bullet's that have put 2" shorty drives and picked up 4-6 mph top end. I wonder how much the getting on plane/ride/cruise quality is sacrificed by doing this. I have standard Bravo drives and the boat planes out very easily. I think that the "X" is very conservative from the factory.
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My experience.
1994 Cafe Racer with 2000 502 Mag MPI's/415HP at the shaft/ 2000 Bravo 1's, with Labbed 24" at 5000 rpm was 68 MPH in fresh water.

That was the fastest hit in the ideal conditions (low fuel and only my fat azz on board)
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87 Cafe Racer with 540's and TRS drives spinning 26" Bravo 1 propellers at 4800 saw 69.5 Tuning still in process, motors are jetted pretty fat and I'm looking at increasing the diameter fo my fuel lines... we also are looking to run abour 5400, so I hope to see mid to high 70's

hp is unknown but beleived to be high 500's
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I saw 84 fresh / 86 salt mph regularly in my lightweight carbon fiber 1991 Cafe w/

* 600ish per side w/ full CMI Big Tube exhaust ( 3.5 pounds of boost )
* Bravo 1's and nose cones
* Bravo 3 blades, 25p
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i have an 89 bullet w/ 600ish blower motors and 30 bravos and have seen 84. hope it helps..i wanna try some boxes and shorties this year but i too am worried about planing problems!
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I had a 1989 Bullet with 650 blower motors,bravo's that always broke and hit 89mph on gps.That was with little fuel,only two people,1-2 ft. chop and the wind up my a---
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Originally posted by ocrob
I had a 1989 Bullet with 650 blower motors,bravo's that always broke and hit 89mph on gps.That was with little fuel,only two people,1-2 ft. chop and the wind up my a---




That's rollin' !!!
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We built a bullet w/ 2 TMP850's and IMCO shorties that ran consistently in the triple digits. I think 104 or 106 was about the fastest the boat ever saw
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