Our dream job....

[XstreamVking]

Never forget seeing a bunch of engines mounted to a barge/seawall at placida running till they blew or reached a certain time w/o blowing. The fuel that was burned was incredible. But the sound was like music to my 20 yr old ears...

[robert jordan]

...how did you know what we all were thinking? so...you get to work, you punch in, and you run a 2 horse or a 9.5 horse on an aluminum boat that won't plane off for the next 2 months with an oversized gas tank so you don't ever have to come back for fuel, you eat a bag lunch out on the boat in the florida summer sun, you punch out & you go home burnt to a crisp & do the same thing tomorrow. no overtime allowed. ...hey, what do you do for a living? i'm a evinrude factory test boat driver. whooooa, cool man!

The mercury test boats here in Panama City also have to wear a helmet and life jacket even in the small boats with little stick steering motors. Cant just run around ware you want, have to stay on coarse.

[keefallan]

Never forget seeing a bunch of engines mounted to a barge/seawall at placida running till they blew or reached a certain time w/o blowing. The fuel that was burned was incredible. But the sound was like music to my 20 yr old ears...

Did you stay around long enough to see how many blew or passed the test?

[keefallan]

The mercury test boats here in Panama City also have to wear a helmet and life jacket even in the small boats with little stick steering motors. Cant just run around ware you want, have to stay on coarse.

Life jacket and helmet.....8hrs..........Can you say BLISTERING HOT?

[David - WI]

...how did you know what we all were thinking? so...you get to work, you punch in, and you run a 2 horse or a 9.5 horse on an aluminum boat that won't plane off for the next 2 months with an oversized gas tank so you don't ever have to come back for fuel, you eat a bag lunch out on the boat in the florida summer sun, you punch out & you go home burnt to a crisp & do the same thing tomorrow. no overtime allowed. ...hey, what do you do for a living? i'm a evinrude factory test boat driver. whooooa, cool man!

That's pretty much it... I mean there was 7,500 miles of WOT running in a 24' Progression with a 300hp outboard on somebody else's gas bill; and hanging out in the dyno room on the really bad weather days.

[InjectorService]

I liked the sound of it on the first post, after reading the rest, it doesn't sound so great. I guess the upside is the repair bill won't be coming out of your own pocket this time.