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GARGANTUAN!
If you noticed (I did) in the marketing for the new miracle motors there’s never anything in the same for reference of size.
Saw these today at the Cleveland Ohio boat show.
They are freakin huge!
PS, 5 yrs later the pixs still load out of synch!
WTF!
Are they like 8’ tall???!!
...everyone knows you get shorter with age...thats all it is...:rolleyes:...https://www.screamandfly.com/attachm...1&d=1673749540
...there's a guy over on offshoreonly that looks just like you, that posted the same pictures...;)...
We don’t like them because they’re huge and heavy.
They don’t like them cuz they’re not IO’s!
Cleve is s big show and not sure I saw a single IO!
Id say the V-12 Mercs are every bit of 8’ tall!
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Originally Posted by FUJIMO
Waiting for someone to put one on a STV..:)
Had one of these too.
They had a rep.
I didn’t realize the power plant is actually a I-3 150 HP E-etc.
I told her to go back and tell her boss to bring back the e-tech’s!
Designed by Kitchen Aid.Quote:
Originally Posted by Instigator
I always have had Mercs but I sure miss Evinrude/ Johnson. A travesty to let such American icons die off like they did.
22R
After the V12 motor has been used up you can repurpose the shell as a coffin.
what does one of those weight? Are boat designers going to start adding buoyancy side pods to the transom?
Atleast the big merc is 600+hp and packed with new technolgy, the yamaha is just big and the brp is a joke...
How big could they be, all the boats seem to need more then one. Maybe the guy in the picture is a little person
I will keep my Mercury Mark 20H.... 40H.....75H...........:cheers: Thank you.......I don't like fishing so don't need a whale size boat...:p.
Let's mount the engine sideways, underwater, and house it in a water resistant plastic cowl. What could go wrong!Quote:
Originally Posted by Instigator
Not the warmest reception on that contraption!
Glad you told em!
Team marine service did a youtube video on that thing, after he got uninvited to their release party. Funny chit!
As I have said several times before.............I/Os will become extinct.Quote:
Originally Posted by Instigator
- Boat buidlers don't want em
- Plug n play outboards are easier
- More interior hull space
- Better service / repair access
- Repower changes far better than crawling into a hull hatchway
- Fire hazard reduction (no engine ignition source inside hull)
That's one of those things that all you can do is shake your head in disbelief.Quote:
Originally Posted by OnPad
Clearly designed by engineers that have never owned a boat.
Shows how far removed from their intended market Bombardier is!
All you can ask is WTF?
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Originally Posted by DangerNewb
So how much would 1200 HP cost using IO's and the weight ?
we know the back of the boat would be wasted, chance of fire goes up.
Another 5 years you'll have a solid state battery down low and small out drives.
Clearly not big enough if you have to put more then 2 on the back....oops what have I started
Pretty much what happened to the entire industry ... :o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSJC29LPj9s
lots of lobby from companies that didnt have any modern 2 stroke dfi tech.
Of course that lobby got the emissions capped before 4 stroke outboards had to have cat convertors
Every time I se these monster new engines it gets me thinking, get a couple of 600's have Chaz build a couple of 15 inch erector set mid's with a sport master. Put one on my xr02 ant the other on my vortex 21, and if that isn't enough maybe a 400 shot of juice to hit that magic 1000 mark. I wander what gear ratio it would take in those sportys.
Now seriously, to bad they didn't come out with a 15" 400 v8. Maybe in ten years I could afford a used one but I will be too old to drive it.
If you consider scale factor, and scale speed into these new outboards/boats. It really makes the old stuff look pretty good. Big difference between 100mph in a 1200lb 18' or 20' boat vs. 100mph in a 3000lb 26' thru 30' boat.
Some people might say 100mph is a 100mph, but get behind the wheel and see which one pumps more adrenaline.
At least that's how I justify my slow azz 30 or 40 year old junk yard hand me downs, from daddy warbucks.:leaving:
They are huge. So are the boats that they put them on. I remember back when the V8 OMC's came out everyone thought they were huge too
I remember the Trailer Boat article with Jim Barron standing next to one when they first came out. Thats what Gary's pictures remind me of. Wish I could find it.Quote:
Originally Posted by JBS