Zac and the rest of the people there are fantastic!
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Zac and the rest of the people there are fantastic!
They don’t even dyno test/rate the engines in the boat, so exhaust and driveline losses are not accounted for.
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10,700# is a chunk of weight no doubt but the Makai is rated for 11,700# and is 2ft longer than an SA. It needs more weight.
Having demoed the Makai twice before purchasing I will say this 400 will do most anything you need at sea level within the 11,700#. How do I know? I made the dealer load it up and we had it at 11,500# with the 400 and the "wake prop".... that being said it definitely has work harder to do it than the 450 no doubt. Now the Makai is 24.5' with a 102" beam, the same as the SE yet weighs 950# less, get where I am going with this?
In the end only you know how you will truly use the boat and you have to be happy with your purchase and how you spec it, that is all that really matters. I am just saying make sure you get what you want.
With the 400 I assume he is getting the 1.5
I think 1.76 may be in the future for more motors, but could be yet to come.
I have a 450 and use all of its available snort. A 400 would not work for me, but my loads are pure insanity by some standards. Unfortunately my scale is skewed by friends with slammed SLs and MC X24s. BASTARDS!
I know a lot of Makais have 400s. And there are tons of happy Makai owners, so it must be doing the trick for most.
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So I think 2020 is supposed to be the first year for the 400 to come with the 1.5:1 drive train. The prop selection on the 2019 boat builder is still showing options for the 1:1 like what I am pretty sure I have. I wonder how the 1.5:1 will improve performance with the 400.
And while the 400 can pull the weight with the right prop, that prop may have you turned in excess of 4,000 rpm while at wakeboard speeds which is not a good idea IMO. That is where the added power of the other engine comes in handy.
I will NEVER wakeboard with the Makai. We will only use it for cruising, and surfing. Normal crew is about 4-6 with two fo those being 4 and 6 year olds. We boat at about 250 ft above sea level. I will have about 1000lb of lead I can use. So fasted we will go fully loaded would be about 11 mph. When cruising obv all the ballast would be drained. Only have one friend who surfs who is over 200 lbs. Most of my friends are in the 150 lb range. Little fuckers.
I think you’d be fine with the 400 given your intended use and crew size. My Max is rated at 4500 lbs dry weight to the Makai’s 5200 lbs. I had 13 people on my Max and just making things simple that’s an average of 164 lbs per person based off the capacity rating. Given the Makai weighs more I subtract 4 people from the 13 I had to equate to roughly the same weight. I had no issues getting on plane. Granted I did not have the rear ballast full and was running 75% front ballast, but the engine handled it at sea level just fine. Do they have a Makai there with a 400 that you can demo with your lead and approximate crew size? That’s really the best and only way you’ll know if it’s ok for you. Personally I think you’d be fine but of course more is better if you feel you need it.