tony thomas wrote:
For a complete engine w/ EFI to include starter, alternator, belts,
computer, everything ready to go w/ 375 hp that is not bad.

You can get a Chevy 350 Short Block for about 1400 and a long block for
about 1800 but that is not the same engine as this and it really does not
include everything ready to run.

Price an EFI aftermarket kit and see what that adds to the price by itself.


I take your point Tony, but knowing GM powertrain sell "complete crate"
marine setups to OEMs at pretty good prices; including the Vortec 8100
which this probably is????, I was surprised.

The "marine" injection systems, marine ECMs, marine specific cams etc
are not after market (although GM might have outsourced) they're all GM
stuff not Brunswick etc, if an OEM orders a marine crate with all the
options it's all in there, even up to 420HP.

Of course using closed coolant cooling obviates the need for a specific
"Marine" core, so save the cam profile it's potentially cheaper again.
I'm not suggesting it isn't a marine core, just pointing out that going
closed cooling opens up to some bigger HP options.

If that's the going rate then that's the going rate, besides HP for HP
it looks bloody cheap compared to some of the new OBs:-)

K

Todays Krause lie is a recent one, not wanting anyone to think he's
reformed:-) He lies now just as he always has:-)

It's the total idiot who can never even enter a real boating thread,
trying to convince the really gullible he is the real boating deal,
which he aint:-)

Note if you will, the school boy liar rouse if excessive detail??? then
the need to pretend "he" was special as always & the pre dealing &
explanantions with the implausible parts of the lie; trouble is the
uneducated dumb liar still knows next to nothing about boats nor boating!!!



I took my *first* course, in piloting, with my then best friend, Steve, when
we were about 11-12 years old, by special dispensation of the US Power
Squadron in New Haven, Connecticut. The class was held in the evenings
in the
basement of one of the Sheffield scientific buildings, on Prospect
Street, if
I recall, on the campus of Yale University, across from Woolsey Hall. Our
parents dropped us off and picked us up; the classes were in the evenings.

We were at that time the two youngest enrollees in such a course in the
history of the USPS. We completed the course successfully. It was about 45
years ago, when piloting and navigation were done with hand instruments.

How did we get in at such an early age? Both of us had started yacht club
sailboat racing in dinghies at the age of 8, and by the time we were 11,
were
working individually and as a team, competing successfully in southern
Connecticut junior racing circuits. It also didn't hurt that my father was a
boat dealer and marina operator and also a by-then retired boat racer of
some
fame, and that Steve's dad was a well-known sailboater out of the Branford,
Connecticut, area.

Steve now sails out of the Maritime Provinces.