Finally took her out!!! But it didn't end well

[jamesbalog]

my 200hp merc will turn 48-4900 rpms with a 19pitch prop the fastest i have seen on the gps is 43. With my normal load of people and gear i get 38-39.

mines also a 81 so its not making 200 at the prop, boat also has bottom paint

[RidgeRunner]

Originally Posted by jamesbalog

my 200hp merc will turn 48-4900 rpms with a 19pitch prop the fastest i have seen on the gps is 43. With my normal load of people and gear i get 38-39.

mines also a 81 so its not making 200 at the prop, boat also has bottom paint

That is not the range your motor should be in at WOT. 5200 to 5800 rpm is what I have been told all my life.

The OLD V200 2.4 L Merc would turn 6100 as they didn't have limiters back when.

Motors never run stronger than right before they pop.
Lean run 2 strokes run real well. Ever notices what happens when a chainsaw starts to run outta fuel.. She definitely picks up some rpm right before she dies.
The piston got hot due to predetonation caused by a lean run condition. That is why she wouldn't turn over hot, the piston was all swelled up and melting. Once cooled down, that piston will often shrink and the starter can turn the crank again. The melting piston leaves deposits of aluminum on the cylinder walls which then gets cleaned off by the piston rings. Stick a ring and well, game over. I still love 2-strokes but the technology is helping to make the 4-strokes lighter all the time. Fuel infection and all, I am coming around to the technology because it works..it ain't cheap, says Captain Obvious..
Best of luck 3 Squids. Been there and done that with Johnrude and a Merc or three...

[phatdaddy]

squid, i was in the same boat(pun intended) 2 years ago. i fought the lure of 4stroke until my 20 year old merc oil injection had a hiccup. it;s a different beast, lotta pluses and a few minuses. the way i justify it, old 2 stroke burns around 11 gph, 4S around 7, ive put 240 hours on mine, so i've burned 1680 gallons vs 2640. thats a savings of 960 gallons @ $3.00. so about $1500 a year in fuel savings. it will pay for itself in 8 years.

this is the logic i have used on myself and it works so far.

if you want to offset the cost a little, i'll take some of those decals

[3 Squids]

Originally Posted by phatdaddy

if you want to offset the cost a little, i'll take some of those decals

I need to work on the details of the decal as for some reason my program isn't vectorizing it correctly. It's kind of choppy and skewed but I didn't really have time to mess with it. Only reason I made it was we were about to pull out of the driveway with it when my dad pointed out I didn't have any registration decals on it. That would of been a quick stop by the marine police. I had a little wasted space on the vinyl so I snuck it in there.

I'll play with it some and get some to ya. If anyone else wants some just let me know size and color and I'll see what I can do. I pretty much keep the main color wheel colors on hand. Just so happens I have lime green and purple too...total coincidence. Depending on size probably looking at $5-$10 max shipped. I don't charge near as much as the vinyl shops. Pretty much just material and shipping.

[phatdaddy]

Deal, thanks

[bgreene]

[QUOTE=jamesbalog;228171]my 200hp merc will turn 48-4900 rpms with a 19pitch prop the fastest i have seen on the gps is 43. With my normal load of people and gear i get 38-39.

mines also a 81 so its not making 200 at the prop, boat also has bottom paint[/QUOTE

Yours likely too much prop...........you need 5,500 rpm and will likely get 45-48 mph while the motor will work less hard too.

[draglink]

Originally Posted by jamesbalog

my 200hp merc will turn 48-4900 rpms with a 19pitch prop the fastest i have seen on the gps is 43. With my normal load of people and gear i get 38-39.

mines also a 81 so its not making 200 at the prop, boat also has bottom paint

I agree with Ridge and BGreen. Light boat, just me I turn 6300 WOT, she likes it, I don't keep it there long. At 6300 I am around 53-55 mph. I load her down and she still turns around 6K WOT. You should see better top end. Try some different props

[jamesbalog]

ill give some different props a try.

I dont get to run wide open very often here but id like to see what she can do

[3 Squids]

Thanks for all the input guys. Guess it all depends on what I find when I pull the head. Of course it looks like I'll be pulling 16 hour days all this week so may have to hold off til the weekend. If I can get it rebuilt for say under 2K I may just do that for now and save up for a 4 stroker in the future. I hate having to finance anything, especially boat related and I don't exactly have $12G laying around to spend on a motor. An old man told me once only kinda of boat you can love is one that's paid for. I've taken his advice for 15 years and even though I've had downed boats at least they weren't down and I was paying on it.

Draglink, are you taking about Mr. Belvin? Also are you running your oil injection? Mine was bypassed and I mixed the fuel 50:1. I really hate having to do that but my Merc friend said its the way to go. He also wonders if that's why it leaned out. He said whenever he bypasses injection he's had to jet up the carbs. This was indeed a freshly rebuilt motor so I wonder if they didn't do that. I also plan on pulling the carbs and taking them to him to see if he thinks that may be the culprit. Just wondering if anyone else has heard that.

[3 Squids]

Hahaha hey DragLink apparently you know my Merc guy. Troy told me he knows you. He was telling me over the weekend he had a buddy with a V-20 that'll run its *** off come to find out he was talking about your rig. That's funny.