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Merc 80 Jet Enough for my 1860??
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<blockquote data-quote="archery68" data-source="post: 468168" data-attributes="member: 20113"><p>I’m not an expert. My opinion only. I think the 80 would work on your 1860. Depends of course how much gear your going to have, and also how many other people. I’m saying this only if it’s the factory jetted 80. The factory 80 jets are 115 hp motors but are 80 at the Jet/pump. That would be the biggest boat I would put it on. Most folks where I live run the the 80 jets on 1856’s. They perform really well, in fact that will be my next setup. The 2072 would be to big in my opinion. Would be sluggish, slow to get on plane. If you put a 90 prop on your boat and added the jet later that would drop the the hp to right at 65 hp at the jet. You lose that much with jet conversion. The 90/65 would not be enough motor for a 2072 and might not be enough for the 1860. I run the current river in Missouri. Lots of folks running the merc 115/80. Parts of current river has hp restrictions of 40hp so I run a 60/40 merc 4 stroke on an 1852 .80 gauge Blazer SS with a tiller. By myself 34 downstream and 31or so upstream. Put my family and our crap in there it drops big time. My point is I have to watch where I put all our stuff and distribute the weight. They just don’t run like props. Hope this has helped. </p><p></p><p></p><p>Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="archery68, post: 468168, member: 20113"] I’m not an expert. My opinion only. I think the 80 would work on your 1860. Depends of course how much gear your going to have, and also how many other people. I’m saying this only if it’s the factory jetted 80. The factory 80 jets are 115 hp motors but are 80 at the Jet/pump. That would be the biggest boat I would put it on. Most folks where I live run the the 80 jets on 1856’s. They perform really well, in fact that will be my next setup. The 2072 would be to big in my opinion. Would be sluggish, slow to get on plane. If you put a 90 prop on your boat and added the jet later that would drop the the hp to right at 65 hp at the jet. You lose that much with jet conversion. The 90/65 would not be enough motor for a 2072 and might not be enough for the 1860. I run the current river in Missouri. Lots of folks running the merc 115/80. Parts of current river has hp restrictions of 40hp so I run a 60/40 merc 4 stroke on an 1852 .80 gauge Blazer SS with a tiller. By myself 34 downstream and 31or so upstream. Put my family and our crap in there it drops big time. My point is I have to watch where I put all our stuff and distribute the weight. They just don’t run like props. Hope this has helped. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk [/QUOTE]
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