That looks fugly
Do you want easy or good?
@MikeSchinlaub may have other ideas
Easy would be epoxy in a chunk of aluminum in the opening behind the screw holes and then fill the large drilled screw holes holes with reinforced epoxy
Good would be resin in the aluminum, then grind out the...
do you have a heat exchanger, or are you raw water cooled.
1 of 3 things happen when you bury a VP drive in the sand.
its light sand, the particles remain in suspension and most goes out the exhaust
its heavy sand and the bottom of your raw water cooled block water jacket and exhaust manifold...
IT bought us HP printers for the office. POS is being kind to them suckholes of life.
T office is 1500 miles away and they wont set foot in the office here because they know how pi$$ed we all are about the printers.
And with everyone LS swapping good SBCs and BBCs, many good motors are in the $1k-2k range only needing a cam swap and marine electrics and exhaust to make good boat motors
Many dealers are struggling right now until you get into the range of boats that are resistant to financial climate changes. even great dealerships are seeing a slowdown in service as new boat sales drop.
Merc has a way of hypercomplixification of EVERYTHING they touch. Many of the engineers...
All gel coat oxidizes. There may be a lot of traffic and use scuffs
Mike posted the process, just add the elbow grease . Depending on how dull or deep the scratches, you may need to start at 600 grit, then go up
Factor in wind load and other things and your truck motor is pushing a lot more power to hold 75 vs 65. BSFC for a motor is almost flat. It literally is the Specific Fuel Consumption for the motor at output Brake HP
NEVER turn a Chevy motor over by the crank pulley. The bolt will strip out the threads in the crank and you then have junk
Always use a crank socket
If you swap blocks, use the accessories on the current 5.0. same parts
You're overthinking it. Base engines are just long blocks.
If the...
you can do the work yourself and swap the motor for $5500 for a new 5.7 liter motor
or much much less if you understand motors and wrench turning.
however before spending any beer money on the boat. you need to understand what happened and why.
