Anybody running wet exhaust on a carbed HP500?
 

I have been reading a little bit (dangerous, I know) and see that reversion is a concern with these engines.

The engines in my boat are equipped with stainless marine dry exhausts now, but I would like to put a wet exhaust on simply for noise reduction.

What do you all think?

Thanks for any info....

Greg

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All stock HP500's come with wet exhaust.

I have a 2 sets of stock Gil HP500 risers, like new, were take off's, If interested let me know......

The earlier HP500's had a regular "low" riser on the Gill's that some had water reversion issues with. Merc then went to a taller riser set-up that pretty much ended any issues.

Here's a pic of the taller one's on HP500:

http://www.cpperformance.com/images/620-32330.jpg

CMI headers on mine . Sound way cool but not that quiet .
Just the way I like it .

Mine has the low risers, and the outboard risers have a reversion dam in them. The inner ones do not.

The dry pipes look to be dry only because the water ejection flutes are welded shut. Seems like a guy could simply open those up and have a wet exhaust.

Greg

I guess the idea of converting the dry exhaust over to wet isn't so good?

As long as you use the tall riser there isn't a problem. It's what they came with from Merc.(or were upgraded to).


Darrell.

have S/M change them over or put muffs on them there far better than anything out there mine are dry and are 13yrs old now and salt water only, I just flush them out after. art:cool-smiley-011: