Mercury Unveils New Verado 135, 150, and 175 HP 4-Cylinder, Supercharged Engines

**Scream And Fly** · 02-17-2005, 06:52 PM

Today, Mercury Marine unveiled their new 135, 150, and 175 horsepower, superchanged, 4-cylinder Verado engines at the Miami International Boat Show. The compact size of the 4-cylinder engine and supercharger puts these engines in a very favorable weight class for this horsepower size with modern technology. Mercury had many of these engines on hand for us to witness their power in persion. Very impressive new product!

We'll have a full feature up, but for now here are some photos and complete specifications.

Patrick Mackie, president of Mercury Marine is shown here uncovering the engine for members of the media:

Complete Verado 4-Cylinder Specifications:

**sosmerc** · 02-17-2005, 07:37 PM

Great job getting this into to us so quickly!!
I donno...70 lbs heavier than a v-6 2.5 litre Opti, 2.03 gear ratio......but on the other hand, runs on regular, has a supercharger, standard with DTS???

**sosmerc** · 02-17-2005, 07:45 PM

It appears from the pictures that it does not share the same clamp bracket/trim system arrangement as the larger models. What about the lower unit? Is it a smaller version of the L6, or a modified V-6?

**rsess** · 02-17-2005, 07:47 PM

Any news on Mercury Racing Verado's or Optimax replacements for 300x

**sosmerc** · 02-17-2005, 07:48 PM

Greg, were you able to get any feeling for the future of Optimax?? Smaller models coming?? Phase out of larger engines??

**Scream And Fly** · 02-17-2005, 08:00 PM

Good spotting - you're right, the clamp bracket assembly is not the same design as the 6 cylinder Verado. This was done to save weight.

The engine has a smaller lower unit, that borrows the same technology as its larger version.

OptiMax is alive and well, and I just took a ride on a 32 Spectre powered by triple Mercury 250XS OptiMax engines. Mike Seebold took me out, and the cool thing was, he wasn't afraid to go over 100. It was a beast.

How's this for cool - a 25 horsepower EFI! And, it can rope-started too!

There's MUCH more to come too - I just have to sort through all these photos.

Check out this Spectre - I owe thanks to Mike Seebold for sending the throttles home, even in a good chop. Now, that's the way to get attention at a boat show!

Greg

**mr fun** · 02-17-2005, 08:16 PM

is a spectre a splash of a skater? and is mercury using a splash as a demo boat?

fun out

**The Big Al** · 02-17-2005, 08:35 PM

High Perf.Camshafts,
pro flow valves,
3 angle valve job,
porting.
High performance valve springs
Intake systems!
Exhaust systems.

O the game has Started!

For all the performance boats magazines!
Years of articles!
AL Smith

**msm** · 02-17-2005, 08:35 PM

I like the looks. Kinda reminds me of the 300 Pro Max.

Keep up the good work Greg. Really appreciate it.

**Capt.Insane-o** · 02-17-2005, 08:50 PM

On the plus side they use a conventional clamp bracket. I was told of a couple horror stories at school that were most interesting of the i-6 models. The 6400 rpm redline is nice tho. And the cowl is much nicer looking.

Lucky you Greg, the 32 Spec. is a kick ass boat!

**Dave S** · 02-17-2005, 09:07 PM

That sure looks like a Thatsue lower unit on that 25 hp. They have a falling out with Yamaha ???

**stokernick** · 02-17-2005, 09:12 PM

The same specs for all three engines,how do they get the horsepower difference,advance the throttle more??Seems to me you'd buy a 135 and jack the hp!!

**Capt.Insane-o** · 02-17-2005, 09:14 PM

They have a falling out with Yamaha ???

Well, umm. Yep!

**Riverman** · 02-17-2005, 09:18 PM

First company with a 15 DI 2-stroke gets my business.

Congrats to Merc for going in their own direction. A wee diet and these can be hot motas!

**Racemore** · 02-17-2005, 10:31 PM

All the spec's are the same.They must just turn up the boost.

Fun,that is probably a stretched 30 Spec that was popped off a Motion that was a stretched Motion that was popped off a Skater so it doesn't count since it is in the tripple stretched double boat catagory.Didn't you know that?lol

I would love to have it!