View Full Version : stainless steel impellors?
bluebackbil
03-15-2007, 10:41 AM
I am going to swap out my impellor this summer, anybody use stainless steel? are they worth the extra cost? :shrug:
riverhawk
03-15-2007, 05:00 PM
inboard or outboard motor
#1 Okie
03-16-2007, 06:29 AM
On a V-6 150 or bigger they cut down plane time a lot and plane faster with more weight too. Seem to give your boat more torque and doesn't have to be sharpened as often. Doesn't seem to help lower horsepower motors as much.
bluebackbil
03-22-2007, 02:57 PM
inboard or outboard motor
it's a 90 hp 4stk outboard
98ramtough
03-22-2007, 03:00 PM
Just repeating what I heard from a very nice guy at woolridge boats who makes alot of these. (Or how I understood it). On a boat with a 140hp or larger, at the powerhead, not pump, it will plain a larger load and plain it faster regaurdless of the load. It won't do much for speed, but it will almost cut the plain time in half. He said on anything much smaller than a 140hp it just is a better impeller, not much performance benefit...
budnate
03-22-2007, 06:57 PM
anything about 70hp up will benifit from a 4 blade stainless,:yay:
fishingls
03-22-2007, 08:07 PM
I would agree with 98ramtought on this one. Wooldridge are the guys who brought the stainless impellor to market in the 1980s. They are the expert on this matter.