Verado 275 - 400hp ??

**optimax135** · 07-28-2004, 01:21 PM

I don't think so.........Almars doesn't have any techs trained to rig them. I was at the Whaler meeting last week and Merc said they will not be selling them as repowers at this time. Only packaged boats so that they know they are rigged right and that the boat they go on are strong enough to hold them.

**Just1More** · 07-28-2004, 02:13 PM

Originally posted by optimax135
I don't think so.........Almars doesn't have any techs trained to rig them. I was at the Whaler meeting last week and Merc said they will not be selling them as repowers at this time. Only packaged boats so that they know they are rigged right and that the boat they go on are strong enough to hold them.

Call them. I did 2 weeks ago.

**sho305** · 07-28-2004, 02:37 PM

Shhhh, next thing you know Ronnie will be welding up a shorty to put one on his...

**Propster** · 07-28-2004, 03:38 PM

635 lbs, wow, that motor weighs the same as my Harley! I think a supercharger will hold up in salt water. How many 4-71, 6-71 and 8-71 Detroit Diesels are running in yachts and sport fishers since 1950? They are supercharged, right?

**Minty** · 07-28-2004, 03:57 PM

Originally posted by optimax135
The only way I understand that you can get a Verado is on pre-packaged boats. You will not be able to repower a boat with these at this time.

Fat chance we've got of seeing them in the UK for a while then!

It might explain why so little test data is emerging though.

**Hydrovector** · 07-28-2004, 04:06 PM

Is cast with A-356 Aluminum. The same alloy that the transom brackets are made of. The low copper alloy is very good for the salt water environment. With a solution heat treatment it should be very durable.

**Blizz** · 07-28-2004, 09:42 PM

From what i've been told it'll be quite a long time before anyone is hotrodding these except mercury seeings how you have to buy a 25000$can software pakage just to rig it, and from what i heard wheelies may be a pain in the nuts seeings how the prop will stop spinning if you take your foot all the way off the gas. And i don't think any mass produced 4 stroke even from the large mans makes 100hp/litre, But if you can make close to 300 with low boost 400 shouldn't be that hard to keep reliable seeings how about 6 lbs of boost will give a 4.3 vortec about 60-65 ponies without any other mods not even exhaust. And as for reliability ask any kid with a supercharged honda ther's a ton of them out there and they beat the crap out of red light racing lol.Blizz

**optimax135** · 07-29-2004, 07:11 AM

Salesman will tell you anything to sell you anything. I was just in Savanah Georgia 6 days ago listening to Pat Mackey tell us the future of Merc and it's pretty much headed the same direction as the automobile industry. Almars is pulling your leg unless they are tied into Merc more so than the rest of us dealers.

**Just1More** · 07-29-2004, 07:40 AM

Originally posted by optimax135
Salesman will tell you anything to sell you anything. I was just in Savanah Georgia 6 days ago listening to Pat Mackey tell us the future of Merc and it's pretty much headed the same direction as the automobile industry. Almars is pulling your leg unless they are tied into Merc more so than the rest of us dealers.

Believe what you want, but I've actually already seen a 250 Verado on a '98 21' Outrage in St. Michaels, MD.

**optimax135** · 07-29-2004, 08:22 AM

Whaler is one of the few that can handle the verado and is also a Brunswick company. Where did he get it? Or is it a test boat?

**the witchdoctor** · 07-29-2004, 08:45 AM

I know the Mercury people are coming down to Bumble Bee plant as they have a 275 coming, and the guy coming down has to give them a class on rigging the motors on boats.

**Just1More** · 07-29-2004, 08:53 AM

Originally posted by optimax135
Whaler is one of the few that can handle the verado and is also a Brunswick company. Where did he get it? Or is it a test boat?

No not a test boat and actually I did not ask "where" he got it. I was in too much awe admiring it!

SOB was amazingly quite.

**optimax135** · 07-29-2004, 09:22 AM

I'd be curious to see how that motor ended up on that boat. I can't get them except on pre-package boats. I have to have training even before I can sell them. Training isn't available to dealers until fall.

**Just1More** · 07-29-2004, 03:05 PM

Originally posted by optimax135
I'd be curious to see how that motor ended up on that boat. I can't get them except on pre-package boats. I have to have training even before I can sell them. Training isn't available to dealers until fall.

Dunno.