HP500 or modified 502???
06-11-2007 | 02:43 PM
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HP500 or modified 502???
My buddy just purchased a 1998 cigarette Top Gun which he told me had HP500's in it. When I looked at the engines yesterday I noticed that they had the HP500 air cleaner and blue carb/intake/valve covers & pulleys....but the block, heads, water pump, brackets etc... where all black. If these engines where factory HP500's, wouldn't everything be blue or does this color scheme sound right for a factory HP500 ?? Also, the intake manifolds were DART MERLIN's. Did mercury racing use DART intakes in 1998 for the HP500's??
06-11-2007 | 04:49 PM
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My buddy just purchased a 1998 cigarette Top Gun which he told me had HP500's in it. When I looked at the engines yesterday I noticed that they had the HP500 air cleaner and blue carb/intake/valve covers & pulleys....but the block, heads, water pump, brackets etc... where all black. If these engines where factory HP500's, wouldn't everything be blue or does this color scheme sound right for a factory HP500 ?? Also, the intake manifolds were DART MERLIN's. Did mercury racing use DART intakes in 1998 for the HP500's??
