What swt up will work the best on a 21' Enchanter O/B

[HROFORDPOWER]

Bought it as a project with no power just wondering the best set up for it. What to power with a merc 200. Should I put it on a off set bracket? I was also thinking of making the 200 a 15" mid. Just saw how my cousins superboat was set up. Would this be a good combo?

Thanks Chris

 

[hotdaddy27]

I would be interested to see how the boat performed out of the hole with a 15'' mid...

I am pretty confident that the Checkmate transom was specifically designed to run a 20", but that is what makes this so fun (getting different results from trying the improbable)

Good luck.

And oh yeah...

 

[PapaMaC]

.... Would the prop shaft even reach under the bottom? I would think a 15" mid would constantly bury the engine in water in a mate.

 

[HROFORDPOWER]

not sure put it about even with the bottom

 

[LAAllison]

Enchanter Power

Chris, I bought an 87 Enchanter about a year ago but the floor was so bad I didn't get to use it as it was. It had a 200 Merc, no jack plate and set in the 2nd hole which put the propshaft about 3-1/2' below the bottom. I rode in the boat 10 or 12 years ago and it worked just fine, speedo showed 70. After I rebuilt the floor I hung a 225 SM on it in the same holes and it went 72.5 GPS. I have since raised the engine to the 4th hole which is about 2" below but haven't run it w/GPS yet--maybe today. After I see what it does I'll add a jack plate and see where it is.
I'm running a 26 Tropy. I'll keep you posted.


Art


In God We Trust

 

[HROFORDPOWER]

yea that would be awesome. My cousin is trying to get me to put a 300 on the back and told him hes crazy

 

[yellowfiero88]

That boat is set up with a 20" midsection. Even with the 20" it is still easy to swamp the motor. I would not even want to consider running a 15" mid. I also have a 21' O/B that I am going to power with a 275 merc. 25" mid. I will be running a mild 4" setback.

 

[merc245]

There was gentleman on this site with a one and he had a 2.5 efi 260hp and he'd get 77-78 mph with his setup.He sold it and went with a 242 sport.I think he misses enchanter now!

 

[LAAllison]

Enchanter setup

Went riding yesterday to see if moving the motor up would do anything. Nothing really changed. 2" below the pad but no set back. I can't turn the 26 Trophy but 5900 and 72MPH looks like all I'll get without a jack plate. I would like to try my stock 200 case before I put the jack plate on just to see how it behaves compared to my Sportmaster. The slip now figures at about 7 to 8% so if I can get to 6500RPM I'll be close to 85MPH. If I get to 80 I'll be pretty happy because when I went from an Allison to the Enchanter I didn't really think I'd see 80. Nice thing about living here in LA, I've got a lot of boating weather left this year. I'll keep you posted.

Art


In God We Trust

 

[HROFORDPOWER]

Yea i wish i had better weather here to start painting. Boat looks good trying to start finding everything for it.

 

[timbaso]

hey i got a 21 enchanter 1979 that im redoing. made it outboard n put a 250.. wat can u say about the boat. still haven put it in the water

 

[HROFORDPOWER]

I haven't gotten the boat in yet still in the paint process just got the floor done. I went for a ride in one a couple of years ago and loved it. Always an awesome looking boat.

 

[BLov]

I would do at least 10 inches of setback and use a mechanical adjustable jack plate, add a low water pick up nosecone (I like Bob's) do some solid motor mounts.

My '79 Enchanter running '95 carb'd Merc 2.5 twisting a Mazco RE-4 26 prop around 7500 rpm. GPS @ 74mph

 

[stlcheckmate]

well I have a 88 20 footer, with a 6 inch set back and its setting about 3 inches below the pad. I only have a xr4 150 with some work done to it, spinning a 23 trophy, to 6200 and hitting 59.8gps..not to bad for a 150 I thought..

 

[rowdy1]

A 15'' mid, with about 10'' of set back would work just fine on a checkmate. What you would do is move the motor back, but not up. You could mount the engine at basically the same height as everyone else with a 20'' mid (prop shaft to bottom measurement) but the power head would be 5'' lower giving it a much lower center of gravity. If the boat has a pad, it would help a great deal with chine-walk & might also lose as much as 40 lbs. I wanted to use a 15'' mid on my V8, but its about 2k for either an F1 mid or a Taylor Marine set up. The "cool factor" of a 15'' mid is off the chart, especially with open exhaust.