New Yamaha 4 Stroke

[Terry England]

Breaker, Breaker Good Buddy, All you 2-Stroke boys turn down your 8 tracks for a minute and listen up. You are livin' in the last century George Jetson; get with the program. You can't take some 'ol school Evinrude Star-Flight, remove the cowling with 4 after burners on it, replace the garbage disposal carbs with selonid powered speaker like fuel injectors, bolt an upgraded game boy on the side of it and call it 'cutt'in edge technology....! It's still a dumb 'ol motor with fuel injection, an EEM and a new plastic cowling. Soon you'll be graduat'in from your sounding lead to a 4" Gemtronics paper machine and an Sitex "C" Loran. (Good luck bringing up that 14 and 44 line)

[gofastsandman]

Originally Posted by Terry England

Breaker, Breaker Good Buddy, All you 2-Stroke boys turn down your 8 tracks for a minute and listen up. You are livin' in the last century George Jetson; get with the program. You can't take some 'ol school Evinrude Star-Flight, remove the cowling with 4 after burners on it, replace the garbage disposal carbs with selonid powered speaker like fuel injectors, bolt an upgraded game boy on the side of it and call it 'cutt'in edge technology....! It's still a dumb 'ol motor with fuel injection, an EEM and a new plastic cowling. Soon you'll be graduat'in from your sounding lead to a 4" Gemtronics paper machine and an Sitex "C" Loran. (Good luck bringing up that 14 and 44 line)

I thought I had a Procal Harum 8 track somewhere. My Homelite Bearcat may have eaten it.
Never trust a Crosley.

Ah the smell of old paper machines, I hear they are selling them again in Colorado.

The good news is being made by big petro. Lubes have come a long way in 30 years. The metallurgists are also doing amazing work. Shame they shuttered NASA.
Algae diesel is another ringer in the game. Just getting started, but I think it could be a great alternative. FPL is leasing land to a start up on the beach.

I still see old Rudes, Mercs, and Yams from the 80`s and some from the 70`s.
Can you retrofit I pod docks to old smokers?

[Terry England]

Listen Sandy, we now got a complicated health Care system, a complicated tax system, a complicated flood insurance system, and complicated on-line dating to boot - ya' need a dang complicated outboard motor too, otherwise they'll be some kind of cosmic shift and it'll start getting really cold when there's supposed to be "Climate Change" going on. You wouldn't want that to be "Your Fault" or Morgan and Morgan will git a class action going.

Besides, speaking of things that smell funny, why do those E-tec's pump two gallons less than the volume of the Niagara Falls for cooling? Gee wiz, they have to be ingesting thousands redfish, trout, snook and permit larvae and cook'in them in the blocks....! I think maybe there needs to be some kind of study do to see if a mitigation hatchery needs to be constructed and paid for by those thirsty E-Tec's. They're probably contributing to the the "Climate Change" by warming the oceans too much with all that cooling water they use.

We need to appoint a government committee to look into this because somehow, I'm sure we're not paying enough to be Gov-erned properly.

[Bigshrimpin]

Originally Posted by Terry England

Breaker, Breaker Good Buddy, All you 2-Stroke boys turn down your 8 tracks for a minute and listen up. You are livin' in the last century George Jetson; get with the program. You can't take some 'ol school Evinrude Star-Flight, remove the cowling with 4 after burners on it, replace the garbage disposal carbs with selonid powered speaker like fuel injectors, bolt an upgraded game boy on the side of it and call it 'cutt'in edge technology....! It's still a dumb 'ol motor with fuel injection, an EEM and a new plastic cowling. Soon you'll be graduat'in from your sounding lead to a 4" Gemtronics paper machine and an Sitex "C" Loran. (Good luck bringing up that 14 and 44 line)

Wish I had unlimited funds, for now I'm gotta keep the outboard budget in the market earning $$$ and keep listening to my 1986 walkman crank out 2 stroke tunes. One mans trash is another mans treasure

[Bigshrimpin]

Wow . . . just read that article.

Spark Plugs: $146.00
Water Pump: $375.00

????????????????

Same job done yourself on a 1980's blackmax = under $40 in parts and less than 1 hour of your time.


NGK BU8H plugs cost $2.25 each (5 minutes of labor)

Water Pump is $25.98 with the housing delivered ( 45 minutes going slow )
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Water-Pump-I...-/300996123884

[Copper Collar]

Originally Posted by Bushwacker

BRP has been selling small 2 cyl. motors to the USN for several years http://www.evinrude.com/en-US/engine...ENGINES/MFE_55

They don't want gasoline on their assault ships, but want to run their outboards on the same JP-5 they use in the Harriers and helicopters!

For those engines in the link, it is about FAR more than just the fuel they burn.

[Terry England]

Originally Posted by Bigshrimpin

Dang Bigshrimpin, What the heck kind of underground bunker BlackMax machine shop do you have tucked away up there in the Commomwealth of
Massachusets??? You got to be breaking some kind of local zoning codes with that whole operation in your cellar. First time I ever seen a BlackMax "Hoarder".

Don't you know the US switched from a "Manufacturing" based Economy to a "Service" based Economy. What the heck are you do'in first of all running those 'ol USA made rattl'in 2 strokes that never break and then when they do, you fix 'em yourself. Your supposed to be trad'in dollars with other Americans to turn your hamberbers over, mow you lawn, wash your car, adjust the valve lash on your 4 stroke outboard motor and do other important stuff like that. You got to buy into this "Service" aspect! This economy would take off if it wasn't for guys like you mess'in it up and going it alone. Here all along I been blam'in those knuckleheads in Washington all along and the whole log-jam is Bigshrimpin up in Marblehead.

[Fr. Frank]

Nothing beats an old "Tower of Power"....

1973 Mercury inline 6 "XS1500" 1.6L (99ci) when spun up to 9200 RPM could produce 205 crankshaft hp, more than 2 hp per cubic inch! and at only 257 lbs, produced .8 hp per lb.

It'll scare the crap out of you the 1st time you hear them turn rpm's that high, though. Sounds like movie audio of something going hyper-critical just before it blows up the whole planet.

hello

[kmoose]

Originally Posted by Bigshrimpin

Wow . . . just read that article.

Spark Plugs: $146.00
Water Pump: $375.00

????????????????

Same job done yourself on a 1980's blackmax = under $40 in parts and less than 1 hour of your time.


NGK BU8H plugs cost $2.25 each (5 minutes of labor)

Water Pump is $25.98 with the housing delivered ( 45 minutes going slow )
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Water-Pump-I...-/300996123884

Yep, those are some pretty outragous prices but the actual cost for maintaince parts is not really that different for any modern outboard. I do my own water pump once a year whether it needs it or not. That plugs, and zinc. My water pump only takes about 30 to 40 minutes as well and I have yet to ever require a housing. Full kit: $34.98...
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Water-Pump-I...-/300979087956
As far as oil changes go I spend whatever 8 quarts of Rotella costs from Sam's and a $5 fram filter from Wally world. Pump out, screw off, screw on, pour in, have another beer and light a cigar..... Even an old Merc guy could do it. That article is pretty laughable... The same people writing that rag think cat hulls are the greatest thing since sliced bread as well and write dozens of pages proving that too.....

The original motor on my rig a a 275 V8 2 smoker. I don't think you could pour gas and oil overboard faster than it could burn it. At a 28 knot cruise it barely got 1 nautical per gallon on a flat day. It did have it's good points though... It was reliable as the sunrise and nobody could follow you to your spot due to the toxic fog bank trailing 2 nautical miles behind. The best feature was the cowl! If needed it would double as a 7 man life raft or could be traded in Cuba for a pallet of Cohiba churchhills and 2 dozen hot empanadas.

Now I only get 2 nautical and a 30 knot cruise and none of the above fringe benefits.... What was I thinking...