OM617 Performance
OM617 Performance
yankneck696
07-28-2010, 05:40 AM #23Pardon my post, as I now see it as rude in ways. This is a tinkerer's, site. It's not a team site, but we are all working towards the same 2 basic things. MPG ( efficiency) & power. There is a sticky about Dyno sheets, but it even is not standardized. Different types of dynos, different measurement units* even different brands of dynos give different readings. Yeak, I was tweaked by one of your posts & went off in a rant. Well, now y'all know the whacked ride I built in the junkyard. I work on alot of diesel powered boats & now got an old '75 Penn Yan tunnel drive & was planning on stuffing a modded 617 in it. Alas, it's reverse rotation. As an example, I can go to the PY BBS & in 5 minutes, know exactly what I need to change to make it happen, but the parts are VERY rare & no engineering data exists on them & I gave up on the idea, unless I come across a true 1:1 reversing transmission for less than $3000. You're playing in an arean that's truly in it's infancy. People are going where no others have gone before. By the time that there is some form of standardization with the 617A, most of the cars will be gone. Hell, try to search on the internet for specific measurements to build any adapter plate. I did for months. I wanted to stuff one in my Dodge Raider. Good luck in your ventures. If you like getting dirty, smelling like diesel, purging air, readjusting your bowden cable, fabricating, scavenging, going to junkyards (even if just for mockup), modding filter housings, then this will be your first site in the morning & your last at night. It surely is for me & again, I havent owned a merc for 3 years & didn't even have internet access when I built my contraption. I just stuffed junk together & tweaked. Have fun with your merc.
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