On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 18:48:24 -0400, HK wrote:

Garth Almgren wrote:
Around 8/13/2007 10:36 AM, HK wrote:

Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
Did you know that engine is virtually identical to the engine they
built for the Ford Taurus SHO?

There was a taurus with a V-8 or are you saying the taurus had a v-6 and
yamaha just added two cylinders?

The former; it was a real V8:
http://www.v8sho.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Yamaha_V8_engine

Hmm. The largest Yamaha engine that ford used apparently was a 4.4
liter...the new Yamaha outboard displaces 5.3 liters. The new engine
might be an evolutionary child of the ford, but I doubt it is the "same"
engine, punched out.

Not punched out from what I heard. It's stroke was lengthed and they
changed the head and piston geometry. The 4.4 was really a 4.6 anyway
depending on how you computed the volume which was how they got around
a California requirement for higher horsepower cars.

Hey - that's what I was told - it's basically the same engine tweaked
for the marine market.

I've been wrong before, I'll be wrong again.