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    The top cowl on my 225 Optimax weighs a ton. I wonder why it was made so heavy.
    Quote Originally Posted by Da Bull View Post
    I think the clam shell cowl was the best production cowl made for Mercury engines. It was light, Easily removed and offered easy access to the intire engine components. Merc threw us a curve with the horizontal front latch as it would blow off when the front plate was not in place. Easy fix was drill a 1/4" hole through the two locking jaws and install a tie strap to hold them together.

    I love this thread and cannot get enough of it.

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    How about the rectangular blind flanges on the block side of each cylinder on the early blocks, whats the story behind that?
    Last edited by powerabout; 01-23-2014 at 06:46 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by powerabout View Post
    How about the rectangular blind flanges on the block side of each cylinder on the early blocks, whats the story behind that?
    Those were added by Ron Anderson when he first started developing the T3. He was planning to add additional reed blocks there but I don't think he ever did as the toliet bowl fuel injection was a better solution. The idea was to suck only air thru those reed blocks and then run the front carbs extra rich to give the correct F/A ratio.
    Last edited by rckid74; 08-05-2014 at 04:15 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Onetime View Post
    Everybody following this thread feels the same way about the marvelous piece of engineering you did creating the Mercury V-6.
    Jerry, let us know when you would like some questions. I'm sure there are lots out there just holding back. I know I am! Only problem will be there will be lots and lots of questions.
    Thanks for all the encouragement. I'm planning to have a Q&A session later. Still have a way to go with the main story though.

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    Many thanks rckid74, I see a book coming???

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    Was that the Ron Anderson that ran A hydro in conn in the 70s?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dave S View Post
    Was that the Ron Anderson that ran A hydro in conn in the 70s?
    Could be! He was from the Seattle area but he raced hydros all over the country.

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    That's who it is/was. Still building race engines for the F1 tour teams primarily the Qtar team

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    Who created the horn?

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    Brendan power is qatar
    ron builds for Abu Dhabi
    2023 TUFF 25

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dave Strong View Post
    Who created the horn?

    Dave
    Probably the dinosaurs. Just kidding. What horn are you talking about?

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    The horn style EFI like Bridgeport, 260 and 280's.

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    I guess he means the EFI offshore throttle body/horn?
    thats just a neat cost efficient way to do that I would say

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    It has that exhaust cover on it, send me your e mail and I will send it to you

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    Jfl
    Was there ever a plan to do a v4 to replace the inline 6
    That would have been a good product i feel

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