Quote Originally Posted by crappiemax View Post
I have a 94 Tracker Pro-Deep V 17, it came with a Merc 40 hp when I bought the boat new. The motor started having some issues in 2016 so rather than repair it, I decided to replace it with a new 60hp 4 stroke since the 40 was just too small for that size boat.
Now on to the new motor. As I said it a Merc 60 hp 4 stroke and it came with a Black Max prop 10.5 x 13 aluminum. The boat runs right at 32-34 mph and will max out at right at 6100-6200 RPM. The Merc manual says max rpm 5500-6000 rpm. On a normal day I will usually run at about 4800-5000 rpm.

I've been giving a thought to going to SS but not sure where to begin so Let's say I switched to a SS in the exact same size, what should I expect to happen?
Would I lower the rpm?
Would I get a little more speed?

Thanks in advance for any input.
I have that same motor on my(new to me last year) 2013 proteam 75tf, it came with a 10 3/8 x 14 alum 3blade and its running 6000+ so I got did the prop finder on iboats and it put me at 10 3/8 x 14 ss (I wanted a ss). Had issues with the motor when I got it out of storage a few weeks ago so I'm starting out with the alum and going to run the ss when I get to Florida next week. Being ss it should drop the rpm about 250 but lets see and I will post how it does.