Charles, I run Merc SSMII's (Speedmaster 2's) which is a TRS drive upper with racing lowers. They are older drives. Merc stopped making them back in the early 90's The drives in the pic below are are the regular TRS's before I put the Speedmaster lowers on. The Speedmasters put the props about 2 inches lower and 3 inches farther back in the water. Maintenance is simple on them, grease fittings all over the place.
The motors are staggered. Staggering helps with weight distribution, and puts the drives closer together. and lowers the X-dimension. also helps with giving you a little more room to work on them. My boat has a ton of room to work with, its heaven! My drives dont have water pickups in them. I have to hook up a hose to the water pickup on the hull, to flush it.
The yellow boat in the vid belongs to a friend of mine . I drive the boat, he throttles. Its a 24' sunsation. that runs a 427 tall deck in it. puts out about 540 hp
he runs a Bravo drive on it. it really needs a Bavo XR which is a stronger drive. (we keep blowing up drives on it.)
