1958 Mercury 700 question,,

I have aquired a very nice Merc 700 in excellent running condition. Folks around this town are of the opinion that the 700 6 cylinder would run circles around my 1981 Evinrude 70hp 3 cylinder. Would you bother to swap motors? I have all the controls for the 700 so the swap could be somewhat easy. Did those old 'tall boy' Mercs really run that much better?

TNX!!

hexter

Apr 5
2006

The Mercury outboards where always more of the fast motors when I was growing up and the Evinrude/Johnson where the fishing or 'work horse' motors.

Some say that Merc under rated their motors so they were always faster?

Your 70hp Evinrude was a very popular mid-size motor for sport fishing and for smaller commercial fishing boats in its day.

Today these high tech 2 strokes and new 4 stroke are quieter and get way better fuel economy.

Bill

Apr 6

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