46 minutes ago, amartin said:

I am not saying don't do it - good idea to have a second / spare prop regardless.  However, I don't want to encourage any more shoot first, aim later scenarios that disappoint the OP.

I never said it was a magic pill. It was a suggestion, confirmed by others in this thread, that it will soften that wake.  It’s actually the propwash behind VTX that “feels” hard.  Churning less water accomplishes that. No it’s not gonna make it magically into a response. It is hardly a shoot first aim later approach.  This is well-known stuff in the slalom/barefoot world, where the amount of fine-tuning goes WAY deeper than just suggesting a smaller steeper prop.

New season
 

So last summer every once in a while our 2018 Malibu response txi would give this service engine MIL things, I reached out to the marina that maintains and stores it and they said they would look at it when we brought it in for the winter. we discussed it and they said the problem was solved. Put it in the water first time this year and it gave us the exact same thing. Spoke to them and they said it could just be the first time out. It’s giving us a fault code, and it should be fine. What does this mean and are these guys morons? 
 

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1 hour ago, Mark5522 said:

A couple of people mentioned to me that you can slalom at 30, 32 and 34mph on a VTX and that I should just go and look at the YouTube videos. So I did.

You can see from the screen shots below that the skier is jumping the wake at those speeds because the wake lip acts as a ramp. If he was to try to cut and lean really hard and pull right through the second wake (as my wife does in tournament skiing) he would most likely trip. This is definitely a really, really bad slalom boat. 

PS Look how much he has to bend his knees to absorb the wake and he still gets airborne. 

 

 

Mark, you keep calling it a slalom boat.  It’s not.  It’s a CROSSOVER boat.  I can personally assure you, as a former VTX owner and owner of 20+ boats, it’s close to if not the best skiing Vdrive offered.  First gen VTXs were a little better skiers.  01-04 sun scape LSVs are arguably better.  But again, the VTX is NOT a SKI BOAT

I have another of the Big 3’s current slalom boat,  3 years old.  My kids are competitive 3 eventers.  When they were learning the course at slower speeds, I can assure you that they got as much air as much as what your photos show.  It’s a reality of physics, even behind a $100,000 dedicated slalom tractor.  If your wife was expecting a Vtx to ski anywhere near a Response, that is very unfortunate. It will not. Can it be much improved from the current set up, probably. Does that mean she should be happy?  Certainly not if she was expecting Response sized wakes.  That said, I can’t imagine that anyone would’ve said they would be remotely comparable.  

No, your wife, or me, nor my kids are anywhere close to Regina, but watch this video below starting at four minutes.  They’re not “that bad”.

haven't seen 130's, more like mid 140's for a decently optioned left over.