beavertonae-21 wrote:
Hey that was my slomc! that is a great motor, even when it fried a pistom, it got Mark home. I took alot of " what is that washing machine doing on the back of your boat" from our neighbour when I had the panther, until he raced me...... alot of these omc's go 1000 plus hours before needing to be rebuilt boomer, there are some guys down south routinely running them down to 70's compression numbers and they are still turning 6500 plus rpm. I know I sound like a omc commercial, but these are , in my opinion, the best bang for the buck out there, you can usually buy them really cheap, and they run forever. A little compression, and porting and look out. I not so sure about the compression any more though with todays goat piss marina gas. My fav marina gas omc would be Toms ho (250hp) 3 litre fingerport looper on regular gas.Ok back to team Yamaha
Steve
i just like hearing v8 talk
15 mi up the road to a buddys house isnt " in house" ..
.. i would and did run an omc for years and it never let me down. after i rebuilt it, when i was 12. it lasted me untill last summer then sold it and is still ticking i hear..
i know of cv tech and i also know there is probably 100 machine shopes between here and there that can drop ONE steel sleeve into a cylinder,, its not a huge job. if i was getting 6 no question i'd send it to Quebec. thanks ill get er done.