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Well I will start with the good news….. I wanted to get it on a lake where I could actually open the old Mercury up and see what it could do. My wife and I took the Mercury 200 and the Starcraft out for a cruise on Saturday afternoon for about 45 minutes. I ran it at full throttle quite a bit, seemed to run pretty well. More importantly I wanted to see if it would idle down below the “no wake” point. Without having another engine to compare it to I thought it did pretty well. Here’s a couple of example videos.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTV-2Tj1fOg
The tell tale doesn’t show much until you get into higher RPMs, but once it gets going it looks like its flowing quite well.