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09-24-2020, 08:04 PM #16Screaming And Flying!
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If you ask some of the old guys on this board who have a lot of water miles under there belts, they will tell you that Mercury Marine has routinely lied about the actual weight of there OB motors for many years.
Getting an accurate weight of the 300XS was as impossible as getting true 21' SOB top speeds until Wildman hung one from a digital scale for 100% truth.
If Mercury Racing offered a "225R" based on the V6 that would be great. A 225 Pro XS for a few grand less, with the up charge "option" of a Sporty, might politically be an easier step in the right direction. Either way, the motor looks like it would weigh more than what mother Merc tells the folks buying them.
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09-26-2020, 06:58 AM #17Screaming And Flying!
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09-26-2020, 07:24 AM #185000 RPM
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09-26-2020, 08:00 AM #19Screaming And Flying!
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09-26-2020, 09:37 AM #20Screaming And Flying!
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lack of HP parts for a 2.5 300+ hp Merc?
you dont need any HP parts to get 300+ from an old carby OMC, just some grinding
and they are lighter than todays 300
What are the some of long loved race classes and the new growing ones..
SST45 - fishing engine
Texas F1, ( now in Australia) carby FF block - fishing engine
You just make the rules to suit the engine/power/cost and reliability you want.
why do these classes exist, maybe the factories cant control you racing a fishing engine as there are millions of them out there?
just sayin...Last edited by powerabout; 09-26-2020 at 09:42 AM.
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09-26-2020, 07:55 PM #21Screaming And Flying!
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09-28-2020, 07:46 PM #22Screaming And Flying!
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Now I am wondering what the cowl on the 2020 4 stroke Fishing V6 225 weighs.
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11-24-2020, 04:49 PM #23Screaming And Flying!
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11-25-2020, 08:01 PM #25Screaming And Flying!
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11-25-2020, 08:18 PM #261) 1995 14' Bayliner Restoration <--Click
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11-26-2020, 12:30 PM #27
Wrong decade guys. Last decade guys would never buy a four stroke , till they quit selling two strokes. They / you flopped like fish on a hot dock . Now in the era of Joemalla/Kerry .. you want more power from existing model's .. come on man .. better get some majic crystals for your cardiac arrhythmia converter .. Pppffftttttt
That or a longer extension cord.
Isn't it about time you guys quit thinking of yourselves .. and start getting ready to contribute to the two trillion dollar investment of convincing mother nature she is wrong in the manor in which she deals with the planet on a daily basis ...
OK , well maybe 1.75 trillion .. the skim gets spread wider these days .. will .25 trillion be enough ..???
2021 will be an exciting year for horsepower ...
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11-27-2020, 08:46 AM #28Screaming And Flying!
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Totally agree that a V6 225 "R" would be the ticket and easy to live with given 3 years of warranty.
As to weight, Mercury Racing tells us the 3 ram 300R weighs 512 lbs while we know the true all in scale weight is 561 lbs. I'd think getting V6 "R" under 500 pounds would be pretty easy for them if they decide to do it.
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11-27-2020, 03:10 PM #29
Stop trying to apply common sense ..
Like it or not .. Power gave you the truth, done in his version of the queen's English.
If a dogs bollocks 225 - 300 horse outboard is of your desire, then quit banging on about the Mum ship doing it for you. Good god man get on with building the bloody thing yourself ... ( or something similar to that)
Or build an old two stroke, cuz you can self wty. a half a dozen (or more) of them ... for what the new wty. really costs .. <--- {two skroke earl]={{{{
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