Heres a pic of an Etec powered drag boat

**looseunit225** · 01-09-2009

the 250HO's are beating the 250 and 300xs's in ski racinbg here in Australia!

the HO just has so much torq i want to see a 300 HO!

**vishus** · 01-09-2009

I am an old OMC fan from the F1 V8 days! I became a Mercury fan when the EFIs showed up. A 2.4EFI Bridgeport was something special. Then came the 260/300/S3000!!! No going back from black then. I have always ran light tunnels and v pads. The ETEC would be a bit heavy to hang off of the back of my Allison, but I love that someone is RACING the new stuff.

UNTIL someone makes a light (sub 400#) motor that has 250+HP, I am going to have to keep rebuilding and running the old 260/300 2.5s...

sid

**E-tec1** · 01-10-2009

Im kind of hopin we are in the stage of the first mercs at the moment,if the economy doesnt kill us first, all i know, its been fun and we've gotten somewhere, there is a little hope

**vishus** · 01-10-2009

I WISH Mercury, BRP, Yamaha, Suzuki, and Honda would ALL start making HP motors...

Can you IMAGINE IF the Outboards were like the SPORTBIKE market. Every year here would be NEW/BETTER models. One year Suzuki is king, then Honda, and then Ducati...

Economy of scale... A topend Honda/Suzuki sportbike is around $13K. A exotic topend Ducati is around $17K. A current 250 fishing motor is between 15K to 20K...

THOUGH, I wouldn't want the lakes as crowded as the freeways...

One of the FEW advantages of running an Outboard today is that hardly anyone knows how FAST a light hull with a 260 can do...