t44

[stlspeedracer]

Any one know engine placement stryker t44 cat... running 29.5 zenoaha

 

[Ron Olson]

About 14-1/2", at 33%.

 

[stlspeedracer]

Thanks

 

[Rokieboater]

A T-44 is its own beast. Best set up possible would be to contact Alan Terry He helped design and set the boat up. Try [email protected] If your looking for a hardware package I have heard that lenny Blake has one that is optimal for this setup. Alan can get you the correct info.

Robert Holland

 

[Archie Martinez]

The T44 is not the easiest cat to se-up but once you find the sweet spot, you will love the boat. Don't be afraid to do lots of testing with props, cg, strut height and angles. We have several T44's in our area and none are set-up the same. Good Luck!

 

[Daniel's Racing]

Depending on the rest of the parts you install using a engine measurement without regard to anything else will often have you having to relocate the engine or otherwise having to make detrimental settings or extra weight to fix your problem with the engine actually being put in the wrong place.

Use the actual CG and not a set engine measurement and you will be a lot closer to where you should be when your done.

There are huge differences in the weights of different products used to assemble the boat and it can have your CG off by a inch or more by merrily slamming the engine where the other guy has his or where someone tells you it should go.

Refuse to fall for that engine placement idea and ask them to please tell you where their actual CG is at not where the engine is at. You can ask for the engine placement also to use for a starter while you lay out everything else that is going in the boat. Mount all you hardware first of course. You need it all. The pipe, the cable the prop everything and then push the engine frontward or rearward until you get the CG of the boat EXACTLY where it belongs. First you have to find the right one to find the CG of. Look for someone that is able to run a neutral setup and ask for there CG if they will.

I have seen this so many times I can't begin to tell you the slugs stuck to the water or the ones that just blow over no matter if even excessive negative is added that people have ended up with using that engine goes here BS. Forget it as that is not how it is done.

Can you use a engine measurement and have your boat run perfect? Absolutely if your lucky ..... but you can also make a royal friggin' mess. The CG is what determines the running attitude aside from horsepower and choice of prop of course and the boat really never knows or cares where the engine is. It is just part of the weight that makes up the equation that ends up determining your final CG.

The reason you probably see so many variations in every ones setups is likely because the engines are being placed by measurement in many cases and the differences in the setups you see are because they are trying to correct for CG's that are ending up all over the place.

Find a really good running one with a neutral setup and CG the actual boat and do the same CG on yours. If you do this I can promise you with all certainty that you will start off worlds ahead of the guy that just stuck his engine where someone said it should go or where some ones that runs good is actually at.

 

[moparbarn]

Good info, Daniel!! +1 (-;

 

[AlanTerry]

The T-44 is very CG sensitive. Most of the boats that are running very strong and coming out of the corner like they are shot out of a shotgun are running 32.5 to 33% CG. Motor placement at 19.3 degrees down will measure from the back of the transom to the cooling fins of the motor at 11-3/4". That should get you in the ball park to start with.

Alan Terry

 

[stlspeedracer]

Boat is set up and running well other than alot of spray off front of the sponsons in the corners...never hooks or spins out just alot of spray up over the deck

 

[Andrew Coppolino]

Great info Daniel so many people will buy a used boat or whatever and just place the engine where the last bloke had it most people will sell a boat if its a pig so never set it up the same as someone else unless you know the boat and how it has run

One of the fellas here will spend hrs throwing props at a boat and no matter what it will still run like a pig and all his boats run a negative strut to keep them on the water, and trying to explain that you need a neutral set up is like selling ice to an eskimo