2001 Mercury 225 EFI only about 500 hours

[spareparts]

and to think, you wern't too keen on the idea of having a Merc, now you're bragging on it

[macojoe]

for the moment, we shall see when she has to work a hole season??

[spareparts]

once you go black(mercury), you never go back

[kamikaze]

Dishnet:

I'm interested. Is it a 25" shaft extended to 30 or a pure 30" shaft? Also any pics of the powerhead and how about some compression numbers?

Thanks

Kamikaze

[Perfidiajoe]

MJ I don't know if you remember, but I said in a previous post, I run the same boat. A 23 Sea Ox, hard top, w/ a 225 merc. on a bracket. If you concider this engine I will give you my numbers as for fuel burn & performance. I will tell you this, my 225 EFi is a little more thirsty than your 175. Either way the Ox is a good boat, I loved my V20, but I really feel good in the Ox. Maybe we will have a good year, after all this Chinese New Year, (Mon. 1-26) starts the year of the OX. Good Luck, Joe

[macojoe]

If I had the cash I might have gone for it.

As for fuel, I am sure if so stay off the throttle its not all that bad. My 225 Evinrude was fine as long as I stayed off it, But hit that throttle and you might has well knock a hole it in the tank!!

Yes year of the OX we should have a great year!

[THEFERMANATOR]

Originally Posted by macojoe

If I had the cash I might have gone for it.

As for fuel, I am sure if so stay off the throttle its not all that bad. My 225 Evinrude was fine as long as I stayed off it, But hit that throttle and you might has well knock a hole it in the tank!!

Yes year of the OX we should have a great year!

That EVINRUDE you had MJ was one of the best carbed big 2 strokes for fuel milage ever built. The 3.0L MERCS are good on fuel as well though. If you keep the oil injection(which alot do on the 3.0L's since they were pretty good) they do use ALOT of oil. The one that we had averaged close to 35:1 on oil when running it at a 4200 RPM cruise, and it smoked like a SOB at idle.