Despite the critics I think it would be semi-cool. Just think of James bond
when they had what looked like a 350 on a little 'asian' canoe-type-thing. I
would review Junkyard Wars episodes for ideas. Or I would put a nice engine
on a 21 and put the camaro engine in a 10' flat bottom and make the ppl at
the watering hole fear your wrath.

"in all seriousness" I always thought an engine and a tranny in a boat would
be cool, but a 21' is a big boat. Get a big bass boat or something that is
cheap/common and make a sleeper.

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I like that idea!... I could weld barrels onto the axils and put paddles
on
them. That way I could just change the wheels and drive on in. On the
front I
could either run a chain to spin them from the rear or use them to stear.
Now
that I think on it more heck I've alwayse dreamed obout building a
car-boater
thing. That is drive up to the water (maybe pulling it on a trailor) put
the
boat in the water and drive onto it. strap on and use the car's wheels to
drive
a wheel rigged onto a prop. Could use a car-differential in reverse tied
to a
prop. That way even reverse would work, And whatever the gearing a
chain-sprocket mechanism could adapt it. hmmm why arent these things for
sale??? Hasent such a thing been done? Just saw the wheel-drive-on
cyllendars
used at the motor-vehicle-immisions testing system. Seemed they worked
pretty
well.

WasteNotWantNot wrote:






wrote:

Just got a 21' 73 sportcraft boat. Have a recked an 80 camaro w/ a
good
267 (v8) and tranny. The boat is pretty rough and has a 165hp
mercruiser. I'm wondering for the pain in the ass of getting it
running with water under it and so-on maybe I could just put the
prop
onto the drive-shaft of the 267 and figure a mount. the only issues
I
can think of are the seal arround the shaft, and the ratio. Anyone
know
a mercruiser's ratio? How bout the ratio of a 267 V8 to the
drive-shaf
for the 80 camaro? I figure the tranny would be really cool for
choosing fast or pulling a skier.
Thanks,
Elliott


I suggest contacting those Cubans that almost made it to the USA
recently in a 53'Chevy truck. Do what they did and it would save lots
of time as you could leave the driveline in the Camaro. Just hook the
prop to the driveshaft the way the Cubans did and strap barrels to the
side. It will be much safer and you will have two boats. The US Coast
Guard had to sink the Cuban vessel and it was not that easy.