jumpjets
Petty Officer 1st Class
- Joined
- Nov 11, 2010
- Messages
- 313
Despite the good advice here on iBoats, I sold my boat a couple months ago, and I immediately regret it. I should have kept it. My wife has 2 foot-itis though, and we've been online shopping for something 2 feet longer. All the boats I've found are pretty nice, but they have 5.0s or 5.7s, and I want a 6.2 or 383. I told my wife this, and she blew my mind. She said: "just buy the boat we both like, and drop in the engine you want".
I'm blown away I have permission to do this, and now I'm curious about the logistics of it. How much might it cost to have a marina pull a motor? How much might it cost to have a marina re-install a new motor? I'm thinking about buying a boat with a Merc 5.0/BIII combo, having a shop pull the motor, and then I buy a 6.2 or 383 long block, then swap the accessories and MPI fuel injection onto the bigger block, buy a performance engine computer, then have a shop reinstall the turnkey motor.
Thoughts? I like to go fast, and I like wrenching on stuff, but I don't have a gantry or crane to do the engine pull myself.
I'm blown away I have permission to do this, and now I'm curious about the logistics of it. How much might it cost to have a marina pull a motor? How much might it cost to have a marina re-install a new motor? I'm thinking about buying a boat with a Merc 5.0/BIII combo, having a shop pull the motor, and then I buy a 6.2 or 383 long block, then swap the accessories and MPI fuel injection onto the bigger block, buy a performance engine computer, then have a shop reinstall the turnkey motor.
Thoughts? I like to go fast, and I like wrenching on stuff, but I don't have a gantry or crane to do the engine pull myself.