More power to heavy cruiser, is it worth it
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Sell your motor and drive. Have the transom redone and new drives put in same place as formula did from factory with twins. B1's hooked to 383 mag/ 350 hp motors.
Chris
Chris
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Guess I just don't know how to ask the question the right way to get advise on what I'm thinking of doing. Heck sleev-les asked a similar question Aug 13 and got some good feed back, but here was talking about an 89 Cig. Guess if I had a go fast with the same type question it would be received a bit better. No problem I got it
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If I was about 1 or 2K lighter I wouldn't even be thinking about this.
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alum heads and exhausts. there is a couple hundred lbs right out of the stern. generator? ever use it? stove? fridge? empty water tank. move batteries forward. any loose extra weight goes all the way up in the v berth.
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Original boat came with a 7.4 Carb 330HP B3. It would hardly get up on plane with 2 people and a full tank of fuel. I put in a 502 crate motor and picked up the MPI from a guy going to blowers in Long island NY. So I added about 100HP and the boat would come up and run pretty good with 4 folks and a full tank. It still has a hard time coming out of the water when loaded but makes it up every time. Figure since I need to replace the gimbal ring and pins, also want to go through the engine to refresh, might just add some extra ponies. Would really like to get it to come out of the water a bit quicker when loaded. Figure if I get half the results achieved going from the 7.4 to the 8.2 it would be worth the upgrade. So add another 75 to 100HP sounds good. Spend about 20K refreshing everything and I might just have a boat that doesn't perform not like my runabout, but maybe like a lighter weighted cruiser with some good power.
If I was about 1 or 2K lighter I wouldn't even be thinking about this.
If I was about 1 or 2K lighter I wouldn't even be thinking about this.