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staggered warp drive (any advantage)

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can anyone tell me what difference a staggered blade makes ?
 
The prop is a turbo warp drive it is alot quiter and has more push than single blades around the hub.I just put one on my boat and all I hear is the motor.A buddy of mine had a 6 blade and every time I road his boat my ears would ring for 3 to 4 hours.This new one is quite!
 
I have a 220 gpu with a six blade and would like it to be quiter, but I don't want to lose the snap or the push. Has any body tried the turbo hub using the six blades?
 
Woody,
Are you talking "stacked" or "dual" props?
What material are you "blades" made of and how many are there?
Then again, there are counter-rotating props. I am sure that you are not talking about them.
A little more information and I may be able to render an opinion.
WaterLizard 8)



woody":3rwpjy2j said:
can anyone tell me what difference a staggered blade makes ?
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I think Hoffman was first to come out with them, its a hub made for warp props that staggers half the blades
 
I may be wrong but I think you are talking about the stacked warp drive that has two set of blades on one prop. This set up utilizes two hubs that are connected. Instead of having 6 blades on one plane it has three blades on one hub and three more stacked behind them. This set up was developed by Classic and they sell them. This style of warp drive really pushes harder than the normal warp drive. If were on the same page it looks like two warp drives stacked on each other. The other one you may be talking about is a counter rotator they have two props that turn in different directions. These are practically silent I rode in one of Classics new boats and after five minutes I realized I was having a normal conversation with my wife sitting in an airboat running down the St Johns. The other set up we called a bowtie prop because the aircraft guy’s would run a six blade hub but put four blades in them and it looked like a bowtie I have seen some car motor boats run a 8 blade with only six blades an so on. The thought behind this was not to officiate a following blade from having your blades too close to each other. You can buy only the hubs from Classic if you need some more information their number is 321-633-4026 ask for Bud Bell or Dave Johnson.
 
I have the turbo warp drive from classic it is all one hub with three plates and are staggered 3 inside blades and 3 out side blades and the pitch is different on inside and outside blades, and is quite. all I hear is my motor I don't hear the prop and I have it on a 12ft 350 with a rotator and runs good. a regular 6 blade gave me a headache every time i got on the boat
 
Thank You, You are right, the hub is the one that Classic sell's. I just hate to buy it and it doesn't work on the 220, I saw one on a 540. What is the reason for the blades to be pitch differant? I run a 13ft combee hull with the warp drive pitched at 6 degrees, turning 2850
 
As anyone tried the turbo hub but with 4 blades total? Not sure if thats the bowtie configuration or the "cross" look. I was looking at the Classic website where they offer it and they sure do look like fun. Considering putting one on my 4 cyl continental(150 hp), what do you guys think?
 
Is this the most quite prop out there or are there any others that would compare?

Could this setup be installed on a direct drive unit, Stock 455 olds?
 
I sell the turbo hubs for the warp drives There is a deffinately a advantage to using them they are quiet they give the warp drive more bottom end push and don't lose any top end where some of the wide blades don't have any top end and more bottom this gives the best of both worlds I have even stacked them 3 times and that was very nice if you have the power to push it I stacked 4x4x4 for a 750hp 2.37 to one reduction not counter straight rotator and that was the best combination I have came upon the good thing about staying with warp drive is that most of the weight is balanced out evenly around the prop vs having a 3 blade and the weight is in 3 spots any questions email me at tom@whitetailairboats.com or check out my website http://www.whitetailairboats.com if you call panther they usually have them in stock and ask for Jay or Bud 1-800-AIRBOAT 247-2628
 
That is the number one quality of a Warp Drive. The more blades a prop has the better it will dynamically balance. Also their blades are much narrower so the weight of the blade is more centered on its mounting point. I would like to run or try a stacked blade on my unlimited boat. But the only reason I didn’t is because between running the motor class and the nitrous class you only get 20 minutes to change your timing, fuel, install a nitrous bottle and change your prop pitch. I takes more than 20 minutes to adjust 12 blades. They only way I had time to change pitch is by changing every other blade (half the blades) and that even takes to long.
 
I run the 6 blade turbo warp drive and it is very quiet but you do pitch the inside and outside blades diffrent that must be what cuts down on the sound
 
Would this setup be any advantage for a direct drive 350 ? I run a 14' Alumitech with a built 350, cam peaks about 3000. I have a 72x34 stick prop now and with the frog spit she pretty slippery. Any feedback would be nice. JIM
 
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