Tiger questions

[inbetween]

A lot of comparisons and information on the Cafe and Top Gun, but not a lot of talk about the Tiger. How does the Tiger compare to the Cafe and Gun? Ride? Handling? Power needed for 80mph? Is the hull based on a stretched TG? Is it better with or without steps?

 

[SKRAMER]

Hmmm!!!

 

[BraceYourself]

A lot of comparisons and information on the Cafe and Top Gun, but not a lot of talk about the Tiger. How does the Tiger compare to the Cafe and Gun? Ride? Handling? Power needed for 80mph? Is the hull based on a stretched TG? Is it better with or without steps?

I had one with 525 efi's and steps. 82mph and ran great.
I would only go steps and not more then 525 hp to the drives

 

[Quinlan]

I have seen a couple with no step and number 6s. Probably need some big power to get to that magical number tho.

 

[sellsman11]

I had one with 525 efi's and steps. 82mph and ran great.
I would only go steps and not more then 525 hp to the drives

I ran Jeremy's Tiger when we traded for it. VERY easy to run. Not alot of trim/tab input needed to run through the mid-range to top end.

I would recommend steps also.

 

[BraceYourself]

I ran Jeremy's Tiger when we traded for it. VERY easy to run. Not alot of trim/tab input needed to run through the mid-range to top end.

I would recommend steps also.

Hows the buyer like the boat Frankie.

 

[BraceYourself]

Also mine did fine in the rough water :sifone:
Flew level and re-entered well.

 

[Tank]

Absolutely LOVE Tigers! Handle the rough insanely well. Spent countless hours behind the wheel and in the passenger seat of this boat in all types of water from coast to coast. Straight bottom, Teague 1000's and #6's. Well tempered around the docks and like I said....WAVE CRUSHER!

Ran just under 100 under propped and banging the rev limiters.

Boats at the 1:12 mark:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OKUcb8DZnc

 

[Offshoredrillin]

I love my Tiger, I'm at 75.3 with 500 efi's and xrs with some work done to the motors (615 hp). It is a 2000 straight hull, the difference in the cockpit is is all in the dash, the TG has a bigger cockpit. I am turning my props in now and the diff was tremendous. handles everything and rarely talks back in a bad tone.


http://Shaun.zenfolio.com/p66135011/e2e39f137

 

[inbetween]

I had one with 525 efi's and steps. 82mph and ran great.
I would only go steps and not more then 525 hp to the drives

Thanks for the info.

A great looking boat too.

 

[inbetween]

I would think the Tigers would be hard on Bravos, just because of the size/weight of the boat. Any reliability issues?

 

[inbetween]

I had one with 525 efi's and steps. 82mph and ran great.
I would only go steps and not more then 525 hp to the drives

I love my Tiger, I'm at 75.3 with 500 efi's and xrs with some work done to the motors (615 hp). It is a 2000 straight hull, the difference in the cockpit is is all in the dash, the TG has a bigger cockpit. I am turning my props in now and the diff was tremendous. handles everything and rarely talks back in a bad tone.


http://Shaun.zenfolio.com/p66135011/e2e39f137

Very nice! Didn't you make the jump from a Formula 311 to the Tiger? What kind of operating and maintenance cost increases have you seen?

 

[Offshoredrillin]

Costs are No different than any other boat, just do the maintenence, the drives are fine if you drive it right. I'm pushing 670 lbs of tq. one xr went away after 472 hours. who can squawk at that?

 

[BraceYourself]

I put 125 hours on the boat and seemed to break a drive after 50 hours. I ran the boat very hard. Also Lake Erie chop is brutal.

Remember they are Bravo XR's. I always had a spare in my closet. When it broke 1-2 hour swap out and I was good to go, then have broken one fixed for 2-3K and your back in buisiness. One person can carry the drive.

I love my 6's and would never go back but if something happens to the #6 drive or trannie you are taking the boat to a mechanic and they do not even apply the lube for ya

 

[Offshoredrillin]

As i said, I have had the boat since 05, only lost 1 xr, and after 472 hours and the HP bump...they were good enough to win the miami to Bimini race in 08, and I'm not easy on mine either.

 

[sellsman11]

Hows the buyer like the boat Frankie.

He loves it. Already talking about upgrading. Imagine that!:sifone:

 

[damdonzi]

I love my Tiger, I'm at 75.3 with 500 efi's and xrs with some work done to the motors (615 hp). It is a 2000 straight hull, the difference in the cockpit is is all in the dash, the TG has a bigger cockpit. I am turning my props in now and the diff was tremendous. handles everything and rarely talks back in a bad tone.


http://Shaun.zenfolio.com/p66135011/e2e39f137

Some really great pics there!

 

[glh]

I have seen a couple with no step and number 6s. Probably need some big power to get to that magical number tho.

I owned two straight (non-stepped) Tiger.

650hp's ran 82mph and pop xr drives every now and then.

1000hp's ran 99 mph and did not pop anything had #6's

I had a Cafe also great running boat but you would need HUGE power to get to 80 mph. Mine had 502 mag MPI'S 435HP AND RAN 68MPH

 

[inbetween]

glh - those are a couple of my favorite Tigers. Speed of the straight bottom boats is comparable to the same powered Cafe and Gun?