Merc 850's and 1075's-ARE THEY RELIABLE
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Jeff...I heard that the 1075 was a 75 hour rebuild. If you go thru Mercury Racing it will cost you about 25K a piece for them to go thru it. I don’t know what the local engine shope is charging for the rebuild. The 850 is a little longer, I am thinking 100 to 150 hours. Go with the 700 package... One year warranty and 700HP at the prop!
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My buddies 42 gtx has 1075's one lasted only 25hours before it puked, Merc told him it would take 6-8 weeks to rebuild it and they where subbing it out to Sterling. He didn't want his season to be over so he purchased a spare!
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These are the stories I have heard, not been very favorable. To be fair though, these were on all very , very, Hi-Perf. boats where they were entered in poker runs. We all know what the majority do on these runs, no different then my buddy would do. Jeff
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A Complete rebuild on Merc 1075's is about $12,000.00- $13,000.00 each on average that I have done.
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Jeff...I heard that the 1075 was a 75 hour rebuild. If you go thru Mercury Racing it will cost you about 25K a piece for them to go thru it. I don’t know what the local engine shope is charging for the rebuild. The 850 is a little longer, I am thinking 100 to 150 hours. Go with the 700 package... One year warranty and 700HP at the prop!
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maybe it's just me but that is an insane amount to have to send every 75-100 hours or at least once a season depending on where you boat. I would rather spend the money with JC, dean or Mark or someone and not have the Merc name and get 200 hours out of them.
Last edited by offshoredrillin; 02-11-2007 at 11:55 AM.
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That's what Im trying to get him to do. But at 700hp it will take 3 to do the same as 2-850's to achieve simuliar mph. Actually 3-600's would almost be the same mph as the 2 850's, but he swore not to have another bravo boat. Hell, I personally would be happy with 2 stag. 700's, less maitenance, safer speeds for me, less ins. and so on. But that's just me, I'm the guy usually last getting to the card stops, Jeff
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