One way to cut the cost is after the install you can sell your original transom assemble for about two grand. The I.T.S. is supposed to have the strongest Gimbel ring Merc has ever designed. Stronger than even the H.P. assemblies.

I read somewhere that the Gimbel was beefier.

I ordered a new Nordic with 496 Mag(not HO) and the ITS/XR package. So it can be done. Of course the 496 came out immediately and found a new home.