Thanks Steve, my dad and I weren't really sure what the revs should be in the top end so we weren't trying to push it too hard during the break in period, and that the single ride guide is very hard to hang onto at speed. I'm not a big fan of foot throttles, i prefer to have my right hand on the trim/throttle and my left for steering but then again I've never driven a boat over 75 mph before (being 17 myself lol). Yep we are running the lower unit with the four holes but also have a long shaft lower unit with the single side pickup, which would you run? We were thinking about picking up a raker actually, just because the mercury laser propeller works so well on my 13 checky, that we figured it should work quite nicely. Any idea what the factory recommends rpm to be at full throttle and what your actually safe to run it up to?