I respectfully dissagree.
Unless someone has *cause* to smell a rat they have A) no reason to look
deeper and B) probably little expertise to discern the difference. Many
outboards share the same block over a HP range. What are they gonna do - rip
it down to see how it's ported?? LOL

And the funny thing is that the higher output versions of the same block
often give up a little low end torque for the high end HP numbers, making
then LESS likely to rip a transom off anything.

-W (could show you a Merc 115 thats pushing 150 hp)

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BTW- in a liability case, none of the above "fixes" are likely to save
your butt. It's *good* that clams don't have "butts". )