My point was that the valves are off the seat. If it didn't matter, then I wasted a lot of my life on an old Superflow SF-110, Rottler, Sunnen and Serdi, valve face, seat and guide machines. And yes I'm old enough to where there was only Souex stones to use.
Today they punch the profile in a Newen seat profiler that will cut as many angles as you want and sweep the chamber all in one shot.
Anyway, you hear one rolling by you real docile , except for the "birds chirping" in the collector. You'll know he's "sweated" the numbers no one worries about .. ;)
GM has used and reused badging so much, I just chose the latest .. hard to keep up but a C-5 with a "big hip kit" Is that what your saying .. ?
Bruce Crower actually ground a cam with some lift .. ? I always liked his rods, but his cam's were typical west coast long D and short L . Guys like Jessel brothers in New Jersey bushed the lifter bores and ran large diam lifters to have wheels that would get over monster lobes.
Well I put "mufflers on it .. LOL and your cam spec's" ... Tied it in a knot :o
Will it be the LS of outboards .. Yes and No !
Guys go to the junkyard, buy a $500 LS put it in a work truck .. it runs for another 100,000 miles.
Guys like the "Sloppy mechanics" buy the same $500 dollar motor, move the oil pick-up, put a set of valve springs on it, a 76 mm e-bay turbo, put it in a four door fairmont, run it on corn, and go 9.70's @ 135 .
I see the front page, merc is spending money on production of these motors.
But as it stands, as of now (for the most part) you pay your money and wait.
Mercury Racing can't sell warrantless motors in large volumes to the general public so I can't see the general public buying these motors brand new and doing anything to them that would void their warranty. So it will be a lonnngggggg time untill you see blowers, turbos and nitrous kits being sold in any volume for these motors.
And when you hurt one .. as it's been said ... MERCOSIL :nonod:
If anything, the 3.0L is the LS , like em or not, every marina has a few broken ones here or there. I bought three of them ( powerheads) this year without really looking. One I traded some work for the other two I didn't pay over $ 250 dollars each for.
It's fairly cheap for me to put a new sleeve in a bad hole and a piston from another one, bore that back to standard and hone the other five and send it again . Or shoot them all .015 and put a set of soldiers in it .
A young man came up and bought a 4 shutter intake from me a couple weeks ago to put on his "EARLY MODEL 225 HP" He had a tuner, flowed the injectors, put reeds in it. Thats it !
Put it on a Mirage 4 seat taxi cab .. first time in the boat ever went 103 mph.
Brent put one of his Bravo wheels on , lifted the motor to XXXX above the pad .. and went 111 mph .
Not bad for 115 PSI notch sleeve 225 motor ... Now what to do with the other
$ 26,000.00 thousand ******* dollars he saved ... :rolleyes:
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