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Attachment 483405Quote:
Originally Posted by Old boy
Before low water pickups came stock on the lower units the guys running the inline 6s had problems with not enough water around the top two cylinders. I managed to avoid this issue by only running 4 or occasionally 3 cylinder motors. You would have thought that Mercury with their experience on Quicksilver and Speedmaster units would have done the low pickups a long time ago.Quote:
Originally Posted by WaterZebra
Yes the speed record set ups often used a rudder and had the skeg cut off. The 75H style unit I got from the Charlie Wicks (Wix filters Charlie Wicks) collection had the skeg cut off and a new one welded on.
Does anybody have photos of the pneumatic brake rods that Mercury briefly used in 1974 / 75 or so? Heard a lot of stories about them but never have seen photos. I know Mercury was quite secretive about them and they caught the OMC teams completely off guard.:eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by 2us70
...Freeman 37 Mercury quad 300's...https://www.bdoutdoors.com/wp-conten...11/speed-1.jpg
Those look like Yamamercury'sQuote:
Originally Posted by FUJIMO