Mercury Outboards

[gwilliams]

I have been running outboards for a long time. I?ve had Yamaha 250 and the Mercury 150-300. All 2-stroke. I didn?t want to go to 4-stroke until I ran some Suzuki 300hp. I fell in love with the speed and reliability. I just thought it couldn?t get any better until I layed my eyes on the new 350 Suzuki motors. I will say this. The 350 motors are crazy fast. I think it?s because of the counter rotation props. My cat would cruise at 35 mph @ 5460 and get about 1.3 mpg with 2 motors. Top speed was 48 @ 6000rpm with the 300hp Suzuki. This is a fishing load. 300 gal fuel, 300 lbs ice and 4 people with all fishing tackle. That is pretty good. Until I dropped the 350 Suzuki motors on her. With the same load my eyes popped out. I was cruising at 43 mph @ 5100 rpm. I ran 90 miles on 70 gallons of fuel. Wow, Then at 5550 I was running 46-47mph. At 6000 rpm I could get 53mph. All speeds are heavy loads. Light boat I could hit 6200rpm at 56mph.
My boat dry weighs 6200 lbs and is 33 ft. I kinda feel like I?m back in a bullet with a 300 pro max.


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