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Message: <blockquote data-quote="bikerider" data-source="post: 450589" data-attributes="member: 23591"><p>Hello all, I have a 10 ft Starcraft aluminum V hull that I have been working on for the upcoming fishing season. I just put together a Frankenstein outboard, it's an Evinrude lower unit (1968 6hp) and on top is a 6.5 hp Briggs and Stratton pressure washer engine. We took it out for a water test yesterday evening and the engine ran well and moved the boat but it needs some improvements. The water pump on the Evinrude still works and was spraying me a little during the test run. I am thinking I can attach a hose to the water pump tube and run it out the back to divert the water. Good idea or no? Also, I was only getting 7mph top speed. The top speed didn't change from 1 person in the boat to 2 people in it. I could not get the boat to plane either. I watched a bunch of videos of people with the factory Briggs 5 hp outboards and their engines seem to plane out no problem on similar boats to mine. Here's one of them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71cH1v88vQE&t=6s So I'm thinking I might need a different pitch prop. What do you all think?</p></blockquote><p></p>