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21 March 2005, 14:54
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Country: UK - England
Town: Leicester
Boat name: Dunno yet!
Make: Patriot Rib
Length: 8m +
Engine: 300 Verado
Join Date: Mar 2004
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Mercury 300 race engine, and XR2
Hey, Does anyone no how to get hold of the Mercury 300 race engines, you no the ones on that green Mark Pascoe 9m?
Or even the old XR2's? Do they still make them? (the XR2's i mean)
Cheers
James
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21 March 2005, 14:56
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Country: Sweden
Town: Stockholm
Boat name: Osprey & Ring
Make: Osprey & Ring
Length: 9m +
Engine: Plenty
Join Date: Mar 2003
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Think you have to go to US to find them.
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21 March 2005, 15:05
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Country: Ireland
Town: Carigaline/Baltimore
Boat name: XS-600
Make: XS-Ribs
Length: 6m +
Engine: Merc Optimax 150 XL
Join Date: Feb 2004
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Marinautic
http://www.marinautic.ltd.uk/
There you go, the official UK dealer for high performance Mercury engines. They rigged the pascoe 9m you mentioned also.
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21 March 2005, 15:08
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Country: UK - England
Town: Leicester
Boat name: Dunno yet!
Make: Patriot Rib
Length: 8m +
Engine: 300 Verado
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Cheers, that was quick!
james
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21 March 2005, 21:03
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Country: UK - England
Town: Farnborough
Boat name: Narcissus
Make: Cobra
Length: 7m +
Engine: Optimax 225
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 2,364
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PM Adam Younger, he had an xr2 for sale.
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23 March 2005, 13:53
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Country: UK - England
Town: Hamble
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No they didn't, Mark Pascoe rigged it, Marinautic used to service it
Gavin Brown at BBMS has some s/h 300 promax's for sale
You can find him over on "the darkside", or www.boatmadforum.co.uk as it's sometimes known.
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23 March 2005, 20:01
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Country: UK - Wales
Town: Southampton
Boat name: DynaMoHumm/ SRV/deja
Make: Avon8.4, 5.4 & 4.777
Length: 8m +
Engine: Cat3126 Yam 90 &70
MMSI: 42
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In fact Boatmad is probably an altogether better site to ask this sort of question cos those boys are into XR2's and stuff
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31 March 2005, 13:31
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Country: UK - England
Make: extreme 24
Length: 7m +
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they dont make zr2s any more
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01 April 2005, 21:11
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Country: UK - England
Town: Hamble
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Originally Posted by carly baby
they dont make zr2s any more
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So what exactly is a "zr2", the latest Kawasaki motorbike maybe? 
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02 April 2005, 15:00
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Country: UK - England
Town: Leicester
Boat name: Dunno yet!
Make: Patriot Rib
Length: 8m +
Engine: 300 Verado
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Originally Posted by carly baby
they dont make zr2s any more
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Actually they are known as the 2.5 EFI nowerdays, and they are soing out of production at the end of this year along with the 300x promax.
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02 April 2005, 21:51
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Country: UK - England
Town: scotland
Boat name: Leviathan
Make: Phantom
Length: 8m +
Engine: GM Diesels
Join Date: Jan 2003
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Actually they are known as the 2.5 EFI nowerdays
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I don't think so!
An XR2 was a 2 litre carb engine, the 2.5 EFI was/is exactly what it says on the tin, and an additional 80 hp.
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07 April 2005, 20:13
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Member
Country: UK - Wales
Town: Southampton
Boat name: DynaMoHumm/ SRV/deja
Make: Avon8.4, 5.4 & 4.777
Length: 8m +
Engine: Cat3126 Yam 90 &70
MMSI: 42
Join Date: Dec 2003
Posts: 6,562
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I thought an XR2 was a Fiesta 
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08 April 2005, 19:28
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Country: UK - England
Town: Colchester
Boat name: JRib
Make: Ribeye
Length: 6m +
Engine: 150 HPDI YAM
MMSI: sometime soon
Join Date: Apr 2005
Posts: 93
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09 April 2005, 11:07
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Country: UK - England
Town: Salcombe, Devon, UK
Boat name: BananaShark
Make: BananaShark
Length: 10m +
Engine: 2xYanmar 260 diesels
Join Date: Mar 2003
Posts: 4,225
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That is neither an XR2 or a 300 - it's a 2.5 efi, as standard they were 260hp or later 280hp as standard (the later ones have a digital injection system). This one is tuned - Smiling Jacks is a US tuning / aftermarket parts company in the US. If you want to know more about the different models etc try boatmad.com - there are some guys on there that know a lot about high performance Mercs.
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09 April 2005, 13:55
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Country: UK - Wales
Town: swansea
Boat name: Too Blue
Make: BLANK
Length: 8m +
Engine: Suzuki DT225
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 12,791
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Just how thirsty are these things compared with say a Ficht 250 or a Yam 300???
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09 April 2005, 16:19
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Country: UK - England
Town: UP NORF
Make: K4 CAT
Length: 8m +
Engine: 2 X MODIFIED 2.5'S
Join Date: Nov 2002
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I have a modified 2.5 efi fitted to my phantom,fuel consumption is around 30/40 gph at wot depending on prop size 
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