"All in all, it's a pretty simple installation [350 MPI system].
The difference in available power was awesome. The 28' Eagle topped
out at 76.3 mph (4,950 rpm), an amazing 18.3 mph gain! And the 26'
Eagle was even a shade better... a giant 19.7 mph jump!"
– Hot Boat, October 2001
“The radar gun
nearly fell out of my hand. I looked at the digital display and saw
a difference of 22.4 mph from the speed run we had just made only
a couple of hours earlier...In addition to boosting performance, the
ProCharger can improve fuel economy at cruising speeds because the
engine isn’t working as hard as a naturally aspirated model to
push the boat”.
–
Powerboat, March 1998, p. 92
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“We
were astounded at the difference. A full gain of 20 mph had been obtained
[on a 29’ Fountain with a single 502 EFI and Intercooled ProCharger
M-1 system, running pump gas] using only the ProCharger, intercooler,
and the larger propeller”.
– Hot Boat, April 1998,
p. 85
“In addition to raising speeds across
the board, the ProCharger gave our test boat [Rinker 243 Siesta v-bottom
deck boat] a quicker hole shot. The souped-up engine [stock 7.4 MPI
with 5 psi Intercooled M-1 ProCharger] pushed to us 36 mph in 7.38
seconds, whereas the stock package took 10.28 seconds”.
– Boating, March 2000,
p. 152
“[The 42’ Fountain with twin 502’s] posted a top speed on radar of an incredible
109 mph! That meant a 31 mph gain at only 6,000 rpm with 92-octane
fuel”
– Hot Boat, August 2000,
p. 26
“The ProCharger attracts a speed freak on a budget, because he
doesn’t have to modify his engine below the intake manifold to
make the system work...To see that the ProCharger draws less [hp to
drive the supercharger], all you have to do is look at the belts used
on the two systems. A roots system uses a 3” or 4” wide
cog belt, while the belt on a ProCharger is maybe 1”. That also
means less load on the crankshaft”
– Powerboat, March 1998,
p. 93
“I like it. It’s really a good,
easy bolt on”
– Harry Christenson,
Advantage Boat (Powerboat, March 1998).
“The ProCharger bolted on an additional
225 horsepower [to a stock carbureted 454 Magnum]. The compact ProCharger
blower...thrives with stock timing and requires no internal engine
mods, so long as the engine is healthy. We were extremely impressed
with the low-rpm characteristics shown by the ProCharger setup, as
we idled through no-wake zones and shifted at whim...”
– Hot Boat, February
1997, p. 26
“The resulting package [502 Chevrolet with an Intercooled M-3
ProCharger in 22’ Stealth] was one of the hardest-accelerating
boats in the history of our tests. It shot from a rolling idle to
a 60 mile-an-hour sprint in 9.89 seconds - the quickest of all 17
boats we tested at Havasu. It was also the first to 30, 40 and 50
miles an hour, and was the fastest jet-driven, V-bottom jet boat in
the history of our annual evaluations, at 79.8 mph”.
– Hot Boat, February
1999, p. 77
“To date we’ve had exceptional
performance from them. We have done better than two dozen bolt-ons
in two years, mostly all EFI. Even the oldest motor with a ProCharger
is still running today. It was recently in for upgrades, and we checked
the motor. We found no sign of internal damage and no leak-downs I
would call excessive”.
– Mike Petersen, Eliminator
Boats (Powerboat, July 1999)
“Named Blown Sleeper, the 15,000-pound boat [Formula 400 Ss cruiser]
was clocked by radar at an un-cruiser like 66 mph. With a pair of
stock MerCruiser 502 Mag MPI engines...and a ProCharger Stage I [M-1]
system bolted to each engine...it turned more than a few heads”.
– Boating, March 2000,
p. 155
“The ATI ProCharger is a pretty cool concept.
Its relatively compact size makes for a space-saving, low-profile
installation. You don’t lose the rear deck as a tanning salon.
The 20-mph conversion [28’ Eliminator Eagle V-bottom with 7.4
MPI] from a plain-Jane motor to a gospel-preaching something else
is cause to celebrate”.
– Powerboat, July 1999,
p.
“[We] ..dynoed a 540-c.i. mild motor that
recorded 546 horsepower (unblown), and 1,167 hp (114% increase) when
the ProCharger was installed”.
– Hot Boat, August 2000,
p. 26
“While most roots-type blowers generate
added temperatures to the motor in the area of 250 degrees above ambient
temperatures, the motor we tested (1,167 mp 540 c.i. with an M-4 Intercooled
ProCharger) only produced 23 degrees above ambient temperatures at
peak. Almost as impressive is the fact that the motor idles at 850
rpm, where most 800-plus hp motors want to idle at 1,200-plus rpm,
which makes it difficult to shift into gear around docks and loading,
etc”.
– Hot Boat, March 2000,
p. 132
“We also like that at 3500 rpm, the ProCharger
pushed us to a cruising speed of 43.2 mph [in a Rinker 243 Siesta
with 7.4 MPI] versus 38.4 mph with the stock engine. Needing fewer
rpm to run at the same speeds means longer engine life and less wear”.
– Boating, March 2000,
p. 152
“While the 257 Effect Open Bow’s top
speed was astounding - we’ve never gone faster in a bow rider
- it was far from the most impressive aspect of the boat’s performance
[fuel-injected 540 c.i. with Intercooled M-3 ProCharger]. Acceleration,
both standing-start and mid-range, was the real eye-popper. Time to
plane was 3.7 seconds, and in 15 seconds, the cat reached 88 mph.
The boat was ballistic in the mid-range, going from 30 to 50 mph in
2.7 seconds, 40 to 60 mph in 2.9 seconds, and 40 to 70 mph in 4.6
seconds.
– Powerboat, April 2000,
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