http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b2...0/IMG_0405.jpg



http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b2...0/IMG_0406.jpg

HK wrote:

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b2...0/IMG_0405.jpg



http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b2...0/IMG_0406.jpg


Forgot to mention...the Yamaha 350 arrives on its own *steel* shipping
skid...you can see it peeking out at the bottom of the box. With
packaging, I'll bet that engine is close to 1000 pounds.

HK wrote:
HK wrote:

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b2...0/IMG_0405.jpg



http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b2...0/IMG_0406.jpg


Forgot to mention...the Yamaha 350 arrives on its own *steel* shipping
skid...you can see it peeking out at the bottom of the box. With
packaging, I'll bet that engine is close to 1000 pounds.

My guess is about 804 lbs with a 25" shaft.

Gene Kearns wrote:
On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 12:41:26 -0400, "Reginald P. Smithers III"
wrote:

HK wrote:
HK wrote:
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b2...0/IMG_0405.jpg



http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b2...0/IMG_0406.jpg

Forgot to mention...the Yamaha 350 arrives on its own *steel* shipping
skid...you can see it peeking out at the bottom of the box. With
packaging, I'll bet that engine is close to 1000 pounds.
My guess is about 804 lbs with a 25" shaft.

Plus packaging.....


Reggie tries "so hard" to be relevant here. I'll bet that "packaging"
(steel skid plus heavy cardboard box plus inner packing materials)
brings the weight up to close to 1,000 pounds.

Whoops...already posted that!

HK wrote:
Gene Kearns wrote:
On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 12:41:26 -0400, "Reginald P. Smithers III"
wrote:

HK wrote:
HK wrote:
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b2...0/IMG_0405.jpg



http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b2...0/IMG_0406.jpg

Forgot to mention...the Yamaha 350 arrives on its own *steel*
shipping skid...you can see it peeking out at the bottom of the box.
With packaging, I'll bet that engine is close to 1000 pounds.
My guess is about 804 lbs with a 25" shaft.

Plus packaging.....


Reggie tries "so hard" to be relevant here. I'll bet that "packaging"
(steel skid plus heavy cardboard box plus inner packing materials)
brings the weight up to close to 1,000 pounds.

Whoops...already posted that!

Harry,

Oh I thought you said "I'll bet that engine is close to 1000 pounds".

I didn't know you said "I'll bet that engine, skid and packaging is
close to 1000 lbs.

I stand corrected.

On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 11:39:21 -0400, HK wrote:


http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b2...0/IMG_0405.jpg



http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b2...0/IMG_0406.jpg

Oh - that reminds me...

Did you know that engine is virtually identical to the engine they
built for the Ford Taurus SHO?

Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 11:39:21 -0400, HK wrote:

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b2...0/IMG_0405.jpg



http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b2...0/IMG_0406.jpg

Oh - that reminds me...

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?

I wouldn't mind a new taurus (aka ford 500) with a v-8. Nice car.

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


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"There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing
as simply messing about in boats." -- Kenneth Grahame
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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.

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.