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Jul 21st, 2025 | | | | Joined: Mar 2009 Posts: 100 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Mar 2009 Posts: 100 | What potiential problems could come from using this engine, it is standard rotation. I know it does not have a vacum advance.
It's better to have it and not need it, then it is to need it and not have it. "Woodrow F. Call"
| | | | | Joined: May 2006 Posts: 103 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: May 2006 Posts: 103 | It'll always wanna go for a swim! | | | | | Joined: Aug 2007 Posts: 1,859 Grumpy old guy playing with trucks, cars, and boats | | Grumpy old guy playing with trucks, cars, and boats Joined: Aug 2007 Posts: 1,859 | it requires lots of cooling - boats have the worlds largest radiator under them, that is why they can get high power outputs from small displacements
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| | | | | Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 28,674 Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) | | Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 28,674 | You'll need to swap distributors for a passenger car/truck type with a vacuum advance, or the gas mileage will be lousy. Im general, the Mercruiser engine will be somewhat of a hotrod, with a more radical cam and higher compression, so running midgrade fuel would be a good idea. I think some of them ran a 2-barrel carburetor, which would also boost the high speed performance a little. You'll encounter a slightly choppy idle from the cam upgrade, so a standard transmission or a higher stall speed converter if you run an automatic trans would be advisable to prevent bogging down at low speed.
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| | | | | Joined: Mar 2009 Posts: 100 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Mar 2009 Posts: 100 | then when i checked my compression today it should not have been 130,130,120,120,110,90. new rings i guess
It's better to have it and not need it, then it is to need it and not have it. "Woodrow F. Call"
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