Re: 84 Sea Ray Seville Cuddy - Floor work, new interior
Guess I should have looked at your thread before PMing you! Progress looks great and I am quite jealous on that 350 you got for her! I also had a chance to get one and had to think long and hard but decided to not do it since I'd have to buy a new outdrive, lord knows I've already got enough money sunk in mine! And I really had a worry about how far I'd be able to go with the tiny little 30 gallon tank the boat has, Although since your raising your floor you'll have room to put in a larger tank and with how thirsty that thing will be you'll deff want to! But I bet that thing will move like hell with that powerplant! Keep it up!!
It's all good - Nate, & thanks for the words of wisdom in your PM!
Yeah, I've given quite a bit of thought with regard to hull integrity, I'm doubling the width of the stringers, bedding them properly onto the floor of the hull (the originals were floating), and where the floor was attached to the hull is where my 2nd. set of stringers will go... these will also be bedded/tabbed onto the hull, so I think I'll be good as far as hull integrity goes.
This may be a regretful move, but I think I'm going to keep the 30-gal tank in-place. I trailer the boat to where I "play", and I've never used more than a half-tank with the 2.5L engine on any outing. I hope that I don't regret this decision, but I've got to stop spending :facepalm: ! I may make room in the engine compartment for an aux. tank if it's needed - or I can always tear out the floor again and replace the tank. NOT!!
My upper unit was toast, & I was going to buy one of those SEI complete outdrives for my 4-cyl engine, but I was able to pick-up an upper unit that's in pristine shape, & with the proper gearing for the 350... so that's what made me take the plunge. It looks like the total cost (if all goes as planned) for the refit will be about what I was going to plunk-down for the SEI unit, but I guess we'll see, right?
So I bought one off ebay for 200 that was in "Pristine condition" and low and behold when I got it the EXACT SAME bolt was snapped off in it! and the seller seems to have disappeared off the face of the planet!:mad-new: But after checking craigslist everyday for a few months one popped up that appeared in good condition off of a boat a guy was scrapping after being involved in a dock collision.. took a look at it and it was in GREAT condition and recently had been off and looked at and had the bellows changed on it(I already have a new bellows kit and am still gunna change them just for spite) Had to take it off the boat myself but only $60! Even came with the trim rams!!
