ford vs chevy

I guess getting back to the OP's question,
the real reason ford quit making marine engines is a little more up in the air than that the 351 was replaced by the OHC 4.6, and 5.4, and 6.8 v10 modular motors.

PCM tried to get these motors, including a lightning based roots SC 5.4l motor, marinized, but my guess is that the $$ to make these new tech motors marinized, was not cost effective when GM still had pushrod motors being made, and I bet GM gave PCM a deal to use the 350's when they went to the 5.3l v8.

There were a few of the mod motors powering nautiques and other PCM powered inboards, but these were all experimental.

I have seen pics on the net of PCM using the supercharged 360hp lighting 5.4 to power a SN.

It is too bad, and for this reason, I won't buy a nautique newer than 02 or 03 with the gm based motors.

I have had too much bad luck with gm 305 and 350's in cars/ trucks to ever want one in a boat.
JM2 pennies

Eric, no, the Orinoco flows up north on South America, over Venezuela and Brasil, our main river here is the Paraná, wich was.

Kapla, thanks for the data, you know the guy selling it?

Lucho here´s an engine you could be interested in. I saw it on deremate.com.ar under this article Publicación #20050000. looks nice.
Sebastian

Kapla, that engine is already sold. It belonged to a friend of mine, Marcelo Angulo, perhaps you know him.

I want a GM 350, for wich I already have the manifolds, or a complete Ford 351W for the 660.

I feel the 351M would be a great engine for a bigger boat since it's a low rev engine and has plenty of torque, but it would need a 16'' prop below the hull of the Claude 660 to make it plane or ski.
Also, I had to make custom manifolds, get a new raw water pump and a marine carb and fuel pump.

By the way, since in our country we dont feel the need to use marine specific parts and most certainly nobody checks this, I think that marine stuff may not be that big of a deal with inline 6s, as most inboard in Argentina use, as it is with V8s since there's much more fuel running through the system, and few more sparks.
Anyway, marine parts cost only a few bucks more and I feel much better not ever finding any fuel split on the doghouse.

Kapla, I'm refitting a Claude 660 with a little cabin to use as work boat for my restaurant at the Charigue island here in Rosario.

Lucho, thats ok, and in whick boat will you rrefit the v8 engine?
Regarding the manifolds I`m not the one who needs them so i´ll give my friends you email so they can deal with you directly.
Sebastian

Tim Im with you . Leave that great little rare Skier alone and go ahead and grind on that 90. You can always find another one of those .

reidp wrote: kapla wrote: Sorry about that, reidp, Luchog happens to be a countryman so I reply him in spanish. I know him from another website (local ebay) so it was funny to find him here. Next time I'll reply in english. No problem at all Kapla, as I was just joking, and exposing my ignorance. I'm one of a handful of Americans who feel somewhat deficient in only speaking one language. I studied Spanish in school and was schooled in French by a French-Canadian girlfriend, but never paid enough attention to either to learn it well.

school and was schooled in French by a French-Canadian girlfrie

Reid, I don't know if that really qualifies as French. Celine Dion, to me speaks like she's from Biddeford.

Kapla, my emails is Luchog01@hotmail.com, you can contact me there if you're interested in the exhaust manifolds. I need to either sell them or get a GM V8 without them since I'm refitting another boat and want to V8 it.

As for the boat I believe the Victoria throws a better wake than the old Prostars, now against a Skywake (newer Prostar 195) it's a question of taste on wake shapes.

John, it was really funny to find Kapla in here since he's one of the few Nautiques owners in Argentina, in fact, we used his boat on a local tournament some years ago and I even got to get on board as "human ballast". I think that was my first time on a Nautique, then a friend bought a 95' SN and it was the dream boat, now you know I have my 80'.

Sorry about that, reidp, Luchog happens to be a countryman so I reply him in spanish. I know him from another website (local ebay) so it was funny to find him here.
Next time I'll reply in english.

Mira que chico es el mundo!!!! bueno nos estaremos en contacto. Con lo del motor estan mas interesados con el tema de los escapes ya que consiguieron un volvo 290 casi completo pero sin los escapes. Estan viendo que casco comprar si el de la master prostar 190 vieja o el de la nuaitque q fabrican en cordoba.
Qua la usas para wake o ski?
Saludos

Steve, I meant every word of what I said- and I stuck to it for almost 48 hours!

Reid, Ill pack the truck after work. See you in a few days!

TRBenj wrote: Besides, I already promised myself I wouldnt spend any money on engine upgrades until next year.

HA-AH! I get it. April Fools, right Tim?

TRBenj wrote: Besides, I already promised myself I wouldnt spend any money on engine upgrades until next year.

Are you sure you will be strong enough to withstand the craving for upgrading for a whole year Tim...????

TRBenj wrote: JoeinNY wrote: Now on the mustang or in your case skier.. different story those are riding boats at this point, not skiing boats. I guess we'll have to agree to disagree, Joe. At least youre breaking 50, though- Ive still got several mph to go before Im there, and I doubt another 50hp would do it. Ive gotta get the nose up, just a little. Rest assured that Ive talked to a few people with experience in this sort of thing (on newer Nautiques specifically), and Im confident I wont do any harm. Its not like Ill be breaking out the angle grinder... at least not yet. As far as the yellow/red Skier goes, we plan to ski the hell out of it this year. We'll be able to keep it here in MA, where I would never want to do that with my '90. A 16' boat and a single axle trailer is just what this area calls for. The green boat will do some pulling as well, but probably not nearly as much as Nick's.

I've got the complete top end to swap out, heads, intake, and exhaust that will get you more than what you currently have.