Mercury RS-Drive ??
 

I'm on the way to buy a 1989 Scarab II with a RS-Drive. I thought that the last Scarab II was build in 1987. Also I can't find something about the RS-Drive - it should be a performance drive. Can someone help me?

Thank's, Gerhard

Re: Mercury RS-Drive ??
 

You must mean TRS drives.

Re: Mercury RS-Drive ??
 

Gerhard

It should propably read TRS and not RS
I am in Denmark are there many powerboats in your area ?

Cigaretteman

Re: Mercury RS-Drive ??
 

You sure beat me to it 38KV. How are you doing ? Did you find any headders yet ? If you have them on already we need pictures.

Cigaretteman

Re: Mercury RS-Drive ??
 

The TRS came before the Bravo. It has a transmission for shifting between forward and reverse. I would not call it a performance drive but it is a good drive in my opinion.

Cigaretteman

Re: Mercury RS-Drive ??
 

I also think that the seller could mean TRS - I know them, but they are heavy and horsepowereating. But did Wellcraft use in 1989 TRS-Drives and not Bravo 1? What do you think about the Scarab II from 1989?

Hy Cigaretteman,
in Austria powerboats are very rare because we have about 400 km to the sea! But for me that's no reason to buy one.

Gerhard

Re: Mercury RS-Drive ??
 

Hi Jesper,

I've only found garbage-headers this far, I was actually thinking of contact you in a near future and buy yours if you still have them.

Sorry to hijack your thread Gerhard, back to topic.

Jonas.

Re: Mercury RS-Drive ??
 

Gerhard

You are right they take some horses to run but the trans makes them shift much nicer than Bravos. I also belive they are stronger than bravo´s and if they break you can swap them with the new Conrad drives.

I don´t have any first hand expirence with the Scarab II but it is not my favorite boat. What size are you looking at ?

Cigaretteman

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It is a 30' one and has two 350 / 260 HP

Gerhard

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Hi Jonas

I still have them fell free to contact me anytime !
Do you know of anyone in Sweden that could be interested in a 1992 Cigarette Top Gun with Hawk 525 SC´s ? asking 76.000 Euro or even lower on a fast deal. Nice boat with many new parts.

Jesper