I heard Merc tried to mod that 4s60hp lump on the European F4, it kept blowing up so it went back to stock?
Goes into gardian mode just getting off the dock and maybe down the straight, dont know if they fixed that?
I heard Merc tried to mod that 4s60hp lump on the European F4, it kept blowing up so it went back to stock?
Goes into gardian mode just getting off the dock and maybe down the straight, dont know if they fixed that?
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I'm sure someone knows how to work those heads. It would be a fun project to play with.
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I think his name is Jerry. Been grinding cams since the Kenny Harmon days. Kenny welded cam's lobs on 250 Honda Motorcycles and then re ground them. Lit those 250's up. Jerry regrinds the cams and sells valve springs. We gained 10% with this cam on a 40 HP.
Flashing the computer helps ZERO UNLESS THE VALVE SPRING ALLOW HIGH RPM'S.
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I think the issue might be most of the engines are highly optimized to do the job they were designed for hence as light as possible.
Its not a LS3 where GM knows they will be getting a hard time.
IMHO you might find there are many weak links in the chain if you make more power and revs and those parts are going to cost way more than the old 2 stroke when it goes bang.
The problem with 2 strokes, right now, there are no new one in America. And they haven't made any for 15 years or so.
The people I deal with race hard in drag racing with their two strokes, but they do blow engines up and parts are getting harder to find.
Guy buy new four strokes, put them on a boat that went 50 MPH and the new Four Strokes go 42 MPH. With the help of the Signature Propellers we have been making, we have the speed up 12 MPH.
Looking the heads over, figuring compression ratios, porting the heads, grinding the cams, changing the valve springs, we will gain power!
For how long? That is the question!
Prop looks somewhat like this, but this is not the "HOT PROP" for 50 HP 4 strokes.
Hi ron, Are the semi cleavers performing best on the merc 4 strokes? If Evinrude would release a mid hp with a short shaft and a good lower unit that would be great, but dosent look like that will happen, we can only hope mercury makes some smaller lighter more powerfull 4 strokes, the 300r seems to be pretty awesome, just put some of that tech into the smaller engines and there may be some hope.
Go with a winner and Mercury and Yamaha are the winners....well Tohatsu has some "hot" 40-50 HP four strokes with that 2.23 gear ratio...But with Evinrude, let's just say "If Evinrude"....
Look on Facebook for Kent Foreman, Foreman Marine. He seems to win all the races.
How about the sound, a modded v8 merc will sound good, but the rest, yuk!
Look what happened in FIA F1 when they dropped the v8
Nascar with a v6?
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