Tom400CFI

Not ZR-1 specific, but related as much of the tech talked about was used for LT5...

Paul Workman

Thanks 4 the video, Tom.

And, to make your mouth water, the DOHC conversion for the LSx motors...is fascinating!

FU

Nice video. Thanks for the post

ZR1Bob

Very enjoyable video and great info on their manufacturing techniques. I love the (very brief) pictures of the early outboards; recognized a few that I had owned. I spent my teenage years as a part time Mercury Outboard mechanic with a small shop in my family's basement. My mother was not too keen on my using an old dresser of hers for parts storage. But that was not the worst problem--we lived on the water on Long Island Sound and one day big Nor'easter brought a huge wave down the sound and flooded our basement 6 feet deep. Big mess to clean up and pretty much the end of my outboard mechanic career as college beckoned. The good news: while the dresser spent some time under water, I eventually rescued and refinished it and I still have it here in our spare bedroom. But those years created my love for all things Mercury and probably explains my long affair with the LT5--Bob

ZR1Bob

Not to hijack an interesting thread, but a bit more Lt5 related, about a dozen of us took our ZR-1s up to the Mercury Racing facility in Fon Du Lac in September of 2014 for a picnic, car show and plant tour. We didn't get to go to the main plants, but toured the racing production facility and nearby Mercury Museum (which houses a 1995 ZR-1) and it was all very interesting. Dom, you should organize another one! Here are a couple of pics from that trip--Bob

Tom400CFI

Awesome pics! I visited the Merc Racing facility in '87? There was tons of eye candy, but the sickest thing (at the time) was a Lamborghini V12 engine, with ss headers, coupled to a racing out drive...all on a stand to see. It looked wicked.


Cool! I had a Merc Mark 55 on a 10' fiberglass speed boat when I was a kid, later I upgraded to a 60's vintage (white) 45 hp, then added "big bore" carbs I got of a 70's vintage 85hp. Little boat would go about 50 mph w/a 2 blade prop. Fun times.