CMI and Miss GEICO Crew Chief Partner On New Headers For Mercury Racing QC4v Engines

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02-10-2015, 09:21 AM

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Any castings can and will have issues eventually I would think, especially ones of the size of exhaust manifolds.
What is the weight difference between the two? I would think the big heavy castings would take a beating in race conditions.

02-10-2015, 12:31 PM

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has there been failures with the stock manifolds? heat fatigue and thermal stress? or pounding in the ocean? is the objective here to offer a direct replacement part when the stock one fails? nice job what ever the reason!

Our experience has taught us that any water related failure or restriction places the cast header at a critical heat level that can erode and or compromise it's integrity (as it would on ANY cast header system.)

The #1 objective for us is to up our game and continue to field a winning boat # 2 pass along some of our knowledge to the people that are interested in the next level equipment on their rig.

The OEM is in not involved with MGRT/CMI efforts on the development of this product.

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02-10-2015, 06:18 PM

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Racing improves the breed. Cool to see fellas.

02-11-2015, 10:18 AM

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MGRT have you seen the new AMG engines where they are turning the head around and exausting to the center of the V things that make you go Hmmmm http://www.enginelabs.com/news/new-m...00-horsepower/

02-11-2015, 10:29 AM

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Designation correction: QC4v. I have changed it in the story. OSO mods will have to change here as we are past the 30-minute point.

My bad. I'd blame the jet lag (15 hours from Qatar yesterday) but I have messed that one up more times than I can recall.

Carry on.

Don't even sweat it, no worries.

02-11-2015, 11:01 AM

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MGRT have you seen the new AMG engines where they are turning the head around and exausting to the center of the V things that make you go Hmmmm http://www.enginelabs.com/news/new-m...00-horsepower/

Boost... our engine team takes input from many different technologies and teams. from drag racing, gt racing and even AMG via Renntech ... if you don't open your mind to the brilliant minds outside of our industry you can't evolve. Whats to come from us in the future will be truly staggering.

02-11-2015, 12:22 PM

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If you are sponsored by merc to showcase the motor, are you constrained/limited to what you can do with it??

02-14-2015, 08:18 AM

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if they are offering a 1550 to the public is the 1650 soon to be an 1800? or 2000 it looks kind strange with you best race motor only 100 hp more than your public version?