Archive for the ‘Boats & Boating’ Category
Is there any information on the web regarding Galaxie California boats?
Friday, October 30th, 2009I want to sell some old boats. Where would be the best place to advertise them?
Monday, October 26th, 2009Pratical use of automobile engines in boats ? what are the differences for rust, corrosion protection?
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009I’m always dreaming up wild ideas, and I had one for a new breed of high performance personal watercraft – the Tube boat. I want to put a V-8 engine into a very stretched Seadoo-type watercraft, and just use a simple propeller shaft off the back of the engine, with maybe a simple clutch mechanism to engage/disengage the power to the shaft.
Anyway, that all said, I know boats use automobile-type engines, but use special water-cooled exhaust manifolds, etc. What other Boaterizing is done to an automobile engine to make it into a “marine” engine? Any special gimmicks to prevent the corrosion of dissimilar metals inside the motor? If I chose to use a straight car engine, with the watercooled boat manifolds, how long would a motor last without any other mods? Obviously a boat style cooling system as well would be installed













