{"id":5101,"date":"2020-11-16T19:34:30","date_gmt":"2020-11-16T19:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whirlwindpropellers.com\/airboats\/?p=5101"},"modified":"2020-11-16T21:32:11","modified_gmt":"2020-11-16T21:32:11","slug":"excalibur-5-blade-testimonial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whirlwindpropellers.com\/airboats\/excalibur-5-blade-testimonial\/","title":{"rendered":"Excalibur 5-Blade Testimonial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Patti<\/p><p>I got my new 5-blade Excalibur prop on (p\/v 540 engine) and went for a short ride on Saturday. I was totally overwhelmed by the performance and the throttle response was off the charts!&nbsp; It gave my boat a totally different sound too, and now I can hear the engine so much better.&nbsp; Now the boat will jump out of the water on takeoff, and comes off the dry really well .<\/p><p>My boat is a 14\u2019 Diamondback with a straight valve O540 . This prop is set at 6-deg, and runs 2800 on the trailer WOT.<\/p><p>This what I was looking for! Thank you!&#8221;<\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"485\" src=\"https:\/\/whirlwindpropellers.com\/airboats\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/20201031_135549-1024x485.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5102\" srcset=\"https:\/\/whirlwindpropellers.com\/airboats\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/20201031_135549-1024x485.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/whirlwindpropellers.com\/airboats\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/20201031_135549-800x379.jpg 800w, https:\/\/whirlwindpropellers.com\/airboats\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/20201031_135549-245x116.jpg 245w, https:\/\/whirlwindpropellers.com\/airboats\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/20201031_135549-768x364.jpg 768w, https:\/\/whirlwindpropellers.com\/airboats\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/20201031_135549-1536x727.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/whirlwindpropellers.com\/airboats\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/20201031_135549-2048x969.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><p>Mike G.<br>Ft Myers, FL<br>Engine: Lycoming Straight Valve O-540<br>Propeller: Excalibur 5-Blade 72&#8243;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Patti I got my new 5-blade Excalibur prop on (p\/v 540 engine) and went for a short ride on Saturday. I was totally overwhelmed by the performance and the throttle response was off the charts!&nbsp; It gave my boat a totally different sound too, and now I can hear the engine so much better.&nbsp; Now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5101","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-testimonials","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindpropellers.com\/airboats\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5101"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindpropellers.com\/airboats\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindpropellers.com\/airboats\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindpropellers.com\/airboats\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindpropellers.com\/airboats\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5101"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindpropellers.com\/airboats\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5105,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindpropellers.com\/airboats\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5101\/revisions\/5105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindpropellers.com\/airboats\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindpropellers.com\/airboats\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindpropellers.com\/airboats\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}