D- MODIFIED Mercury 44 Later Model Anniversary Special Blocked Racing Outboard

[ANZANI-QUINCY FREAK]

FOR SALE - Complete Mercury 44 Cubic Inch Class D - 4 cylinder -MODIFIED OUTBOARD DIVISION RACING OUTBOARD. *Mercury "Anniversary Special 500" engine, based on later (newer) Mercury 500 deflector/crossflow technologies. Block has cooler running longer reach spark plugs offset to the intake side of the combustion chamber and has shaped combustion chambers unlike the earlier Mark 58s-400s-450s & 500s where they had sparkplugs in the middle of the cylinder and little combustion chamber shaping.

Stock powerhead rated Anniversary Special Merc 500 engine generated 50 horsepower at the prop as a ski/fish engine. As a D-Modified it has little time on it with piston rings just barely broken in.

More Specs as follows:

*Modified Outboard As Described as within typical rules on Class "D" Mod Mercs. Termed as the preferred D-Mod Merc block but little performance difference seen against older spark plug in center earlier engines.
*Stock bore, finish honed block, accurate bore.
*True tested straight Merc 500 (Class D outboard) crankshaft.
*Balanced and honed Merc 500 (same as in Merc 44X racers) newest style "fractured big end" and "cap bolted" connecting rods .
*Large opening reed blocks with "composite" (non-metal) reed petals.
*Mercury 3 ring, large wrist pin later (newer model) stock bore pistons (.0065 inches piston to cylinder wall clearances).
*New piston rings (just broken in) 3 rings X 4 pistons.
*Originally equipped/engineered with and retained mounted Tillotson KC large bore carbs with fixed high speed jets. ( can be coverted to high speed needle jet system)
*Quincy Welding for Mercury 4 cylinder classic twin piped/belled 2 into 1 elboed steel 4 cylinder exhaust system.
*Mercury P4D red capped magneto & assembly ignition system.
*Mercury light weight flywheel and rope plate starting system.
*All Steel Welded Pipe type Tower with Merc clamps and saddle.
*Mercury Mark 55H typical long skeg D class gearcase with 1 to 1 gears.
*Chromed Mercury H type steering bar.
*New gaskets, seals, bearings (end cap bearings feature newest type cooler running plastic race retainers), fuel pump parts and lines throughout.

Price Is: $2,500.00 USD$ Firm. Shipping will be in high impact packaging and using UPS to deliver anywhere in North America based on cost and location somewhere around $200.00 in estimate.

Email me at: anzani@mts.net

Telephone weekday evenings and anytime on weekends at: (204) 667-3815

Sell these off and I am down to one C,D&FE Merc(s) to race as Modified deflectors/crossflows finally!

[STEVE FRENCH]

Any pics of port work?

Large end rod clearance/size?

Did the 500 Classics come with a mag or 44xs style electronic ign? Or were there some with mag and long thread spark plugs?

Phone number?

19P

[ANZANI-QUINCY FREAK]

Answers to questions

Sorry no pictures of ports, making them work was more important than the pictures at the time and closeup camera/lenses I did not have anyway.

As far as all ignitions were concerned the Merc 44X type igntions sat on a different type of end cap that was all modular with no belt drives anymore to anyhwere else on the front case with the later model engines with shaped combustion chambers and offset sparkplugs. Some of those earlier "later" type model Merc 44 blocks came with P4D magnetos, others came with the Thunderbolt CD energized and belt driven CD trigger boxed and distributor type ignitions. All the complete engines I have listed are all standarized for P4D Mercury red capped magnetos.

Note: There are no expansion chambered Merc engines listed because after experimenting, cutting and pasting 16 different attempts at 2 to 4 pipes each time I came to the conclusion that expansion chambers and deflectors don't mix so they went justafyably into the recycling metal pile. All the listed engines have known brand belled exhaust systems.

*Pardon me answering your question combined with some one else's emailed question. It cut down on writing.