I need to rebuild the Velvet drive transmissions in my boat this year and was wondering who has the best prices on a kit. Both transmissions worked fine, but the starboad one would spin really fast in neutral when the boat was out of the water (probably warped clutches I'm hoping) Im not putting crazy power into them, just about 700 HP from twin turbo 454's

When I did the VD in the Ski Nautique I had, the best place I could find was Hale Marine. The guy Chris was very helpful too.

Hale Marine seems to have good prices on all the B/W stuff.

A buddy of mine used to rebuild the velvet drives. He was getting the parts from a shop that supplied transmission parts to shops. I wanna say they are Ford C6 style clutches? Pennies compared to what the marine places charge.

dont mean to derail your thread but are your engines gale banks marine?

Mike, I beleive that Gale Banks had a hand in designing them for Mercruiser, But they are actually mercruiser 475 Turbo engines. The exhaust manifold to turbo riser says Gale Banks on it.

i believe the fmx is a borg trans. so much more likely to be fmx than C6 parts.

The MercTrans II was designed using parts of the Ford FMX. Not so sure about the B-W.

federalmarinetransmissions.com he is the master..he designed the bw trans back in the day when he was a engioneer for them..they are in countryside ill...