01/06/2026
🚨 WE REGRET TO INFORM YOU THAT EMT IS OFFICIALLY DONE 🚨
After years of helping thousands of boat owners, tuning engines from all over North America, answering phone calls at all hours of the night, helping customers diagnose issues over the phone, and spending countless hours making boats faster...We've made a decision.
We're done.
Done listening to all the myths people keep spreading about outboards, props, engine tunes, and watching all the "facebook mechanics" cost our customers thousands of dollars...
Just kidding 🤪 Now that weve got your attention, YOU FU*KERS LISTEN UP!
Today we're going to talk about some of the biggest mistakes we see boat owners make!!! The info we share is literal gold so keep reading..
One thing we want to address is the guys that say "Mercury props are junk. They throw ears off all the time."
No they don't.. YOU throw ears all the time, not the props lol.
The problem is, guys are running props that arent designed for their boat & asking it to do a job it was never intended to do in the first place.
Let's talk about it.
In example, a 3 blade Fury prop wants to live in the water. It likes to be buried. That's what it was designed for, and its a very underrated prop responsible for many of our "fastest ever" boats. A Tempest will tolerate running a little higher than a Fury, but not much and in some cases itll perform on a 4 stroke although mercury designed this prop around the 2 stroke optimax. A Bravo can generally run a little higher than a Tempest, but in most applications it still prefers to stay down in the water where it belongs. The biggest myth about a bravo is everyone thinks its a "fix it all" prop.m and it most certainly isnt. Each of these have a time and a place, knowing that time and place is key!
Dudes get on Facebook, see a picture of an Allison with half the gearcase hanging out of the water, jack their Nitro to the moon, start surfacing a Fury with the jackplate on 20, throws an ear off of it, and suddenly Mercury makes junk props. 😂
That's not how this works man!
If your boat wants to run surfacing style props, then you need a prop that was designed to run on the surface. Max 5s, cleavers, and other surfacing-style props were built specifically for that environment and theres plenty of info out there for guys that want to do their research. They have completely different operating characteristics and expectations than a Fury or Tempest in example.
This also ties directly into lower unit selection, which is another area where people spend thousands of dollars chasing the wrong solution.
A TorqueMaster lower unit generally wants to stay lower in the water. That's where it performs best. Pair it with the proper prop and it'll flat out get the job done. A SportMaster, on the other hand, was designed around higher engine heights and surfacing applications. That's where it shines.
But here's where people get themselves in trouble...
Just because a SportMaster works great on an Allison doesn't mean it'll magically make your Nitro faster. In many cases it'll actually make it slower. The same thing applies in reverse. You can't throw a TorqueMaster on a boat that was designed around a SportMaster and expect it to suddenly become the fastest thing on the lake. Same thing with the props, you cannot run a surfacing prop on a torquemaster and you cannot run a "buried" prop on a sportmaster. The gearcases have totally different diameters and utilize props differently. Will the boat move? Of course, but youre leaving alot on the table!
Boats are systems. Hull design, weight distribution, prop selection, lower unit selection, engine height, setback, horsepower, and setup all work together. You can't randomly swap parts because somebody on a forum said it worked on their cousin's uncle's neighbor's boat back in 1994.
Nayurally guys see a sportmaster lower unit and think a boat is "blazing fast"... NOT ALWAYS! We've literally seen boats with a buried Fury 3-blade outrun boats running surfaced SportMasters and fancy 5-blade props because the setup was actually correct.
The reality is we've already spent years making these mistakes so you don't have to. That's one of the biggest reasons people bring their boats to EMT and let us do their engine tuning. We keep both TorqueMasters and SportMasters around. We keep test props around. We swap parts. We test. We make passes. We gather data. We figure out what the boat wants before you go spend thousands of dollars buying parts that may not even help.
The old saying is buy once, cry once. And if that hurts your feelings then this game isnt for you!
We'd rather you cry one time than cry every weekend after another UPS box shows up with another prop that Facebook mechanics convinced you was "the one." Lol
AND FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THINGS FAST, IF YOUVE PAID US TO HELP YOU, THEN LISTEN TO US WHEN WE TELL YOU SOMETHING 😂
We're not telling you to do sh*t because we're bored. We're telling you because we've probably already seen your exact setup, tested it, broken parts on it, fixed parts on it, and helped ten other customers with the same problem.
The other thing we see all the time is guys making one tiny change at a time because they're excited and cant live one more day without their boat. New prop this month. Jackplate next month. Tune three months later. Lower unit six months after that..... GUYS... Don't do that. Lol
If your goal is to be impressed, do your upgrades together and enjoy one massive improvement. Otherwise you'll spend a year chasing tiny gains while convincing yourself that 1 mph at a time is exciting.
Trust the process. Listen to the people you've hired. Let us help you get it right the first time.
Your wallet will thank you later. Theres a reason Team EMT is the nation's #1 outboard tuners. 🚀
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