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Originally posted by coyoteboy
Ours has a BMW I6 engine in it, it's basically the same as the cars 330 petrol engine, but with a big 4 barrel carb on top. Probably
doesn't suit the requirement though, not exactly frugal or light. Sounds lovely though. All of the marinisation is just a water cooled exhaust
manifold and heat exchanger.
Yeah, I think I need to befreind a marine engineer and see what he can shed on the topic.
Im very aware that when it comes to messing around mating things that wernt designed to go together it can quickly take a lot of time effort and money
and that the project is supposed to the boat not the engine. However, short of going down the outboard route im not seeing a great deal of engines
removed from boats. Unlike cars, it appears to be the engine that fails first, outlived by the hull, not the other way round. Ive considered buying a
cheap boat for the enigne, but again, all the cheap boats appear to have failed engines! Marine gearboxes seem fairly commonly avilable for £200
however as below. Which as said, you could do worse than just mate that to a Zetec, or 306 diesal. Not as exciting as I first thought, but again, its
a case of how much time you want to put into what...
Gearbox:
marine gearbox Volvo Penta gearbox ms2 kgms2 2442 ratio 2.41 
Daniel
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