Alberto Soares

@ral - I will be there also, looking forward meeting our fellow ballers

@jercrane - On my 6.0 it is located exatelly as the drawing, the hose is attached to a black metal tube, this metal tube has 2 smal oil hoses on its side. In fact it is not "engine oil cooler" it should say "transmition oil cooler". You can also follow the oil hose that leaves the transmition, it will enter the transmition cooler you are looking for.

API SN is better than SM, the greater the second letter better the oil

usually ski 4x a week and mtb 2x, lots of trails around my home

@markchilcutt - I am at 4500, I ski with a 200/6.0, 197/6.0, 197/5.7 and Lxi 5.7, the 5.7 gets to 36mph, but you can notice how much the rpm changes in the course, it is so much better to ski with the 6.0, I would not think twice.

Cant wait, have a brand new XTR and still waiting for my CG fin

2010 nautique 200/6.0, 2011 Mastercraft 197/6.0 , 2010 Malibu lxi/5.7 - in order of preference

check that link, I bet will help you https://acmemarine.com/pages/custom-fit

@kj000 - No idea, mine is 257 (Aug/01), no news so far...

Roger, I am one of the happy thousands skiers that had the privilege of being driven by you. I also suffered a achilles rupture last November and I am sure you will be 100% pretty soon, keep work daily on your calf muscle reinforcement and stretching, my best wishes to you. Alberto

When I sit on a boat with Stargazer the first think I do is change the configuration to CLASSIC MODE, it seems that on GPS MODE the system keeps fighting itself between the GPS reading and the RPM tables

Once a year

LXI 5.7 - 4500" - Best configuration I got is Acme 911 - 13x10.5

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I would first change all the fuel

Have been using them the last 10 years, changed 2 or 3 times mostly because the wearing on my rear-style. My tight boots need the thin liners, very good product in my opinion

@MarcusBrown - Muchas gracias amigo!!!!!!

@HighAltitude - I understand, guess there is no miracle, my LIMITED experience goes to the tests I made with my boats at 4500. Just for reference, my 200/6.0 with the 422 runs about 4200 rpm @ 36mph and reaches 47mph @ 5500 rpm´s.

@junj - as my LIMITED experience, each 1" you go down on the propeller pitch you raise about 300/400 rpm's, I guess you would need something like a 13 x 12 (540 or 542) Call DELTA PROPELLERS they helped me a lot before and also have a good price.

@junj - No the 422 will not work for you, as I told on my post, the 422 (12.5x15.5) lowered my rpm's check the specs http://www.acmemarine.com/prop-list_ski-boat.php

I am at 4500 and have 2 boats, a 200/409hp and a Malibu LXI/343hp. The 200 works perfectly with a 422 (12.5x15.5), it came with the 654 (12.5x15), the 422 lowered about 200 rpm's, I am now around 3900 at 34mph. The Malibu 343 came with a 13x11.5, 34mph @ 3600, it is a lot harder to ski on it than on the 200. I tried a 13x10.5 in order to drive the engine RPM's to a greater torque range but it became even harder to ski, got back to the 13x11.5. I think you will have a hard time to ski at 36 with your 200/343 at 6800, even with the 1598 (13x14) but if the propeller is available, why not try it? It is expensive to raise the hp's on an aspirated engine but it is possible, but as someone said here before, "Love, money and horsepower, the more the better"

about 250, probably 300 by the end of the year

If you have 110/220V at the dock the easiest/cheapest way is to buy a transformer (110/220V AC to 12V DC). If you do not have energy at the dock go with the solar panel.