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I would go with pop-up cleats vs folding. the small folding ones are generally for hanging fenders where the pop-up cleats are load rated.

and the jack plate pushes the motor aft about 4-5" so that really squats the boat. I would stick with a short shaft on the boat.

and if you go vortec (1996+ motors), only the intake manifold must change and you get even more power.

did you probe the drains in #3

You need to call the local registration office

How did you winterize?

What's wrong with the existing motor? With maintenance it will out last all the new motors

Carvers of that vintage have lots of wood

You were told wrong It didn't show more than 100 because there is no water in the block With cooling water, your exhaust temp is 200f Without cooling water, the exhaust temp is 1100f

NGK has a good cross reference

My guess it the CTS is reading low and the motor never gets out of cold start mode. Have you checked fuel pressure? Do you have Rinda?

Take the garden hose and connect it to the thermostat housing if you want to run it. However you toasted the rubber in the exhaust

Not to mention without cooling water, you burned the rubber exhaust bits

May want to have it surveyed for moisture. Plenty of wood structure in that boat

Usually when the floor rots the stringers and transom rotted decades earlier Check to see if the boat simply had a "deck-over" Deck over defined: Slap plywood over the rotten deck and sell it asap (boating equivalent to 5# of bondo filling in rust at a used car lot)

No, they are similar. Has to do with a boundary layer. Ask yourself why a golfball has 320 dimples. Or why a baseball has 108 stitches ( and why a batch of rough stitches 10 years ago made pitches faster) Same reason a row boat will want a rough surface

Welcome aboard Free boats are often the most expensive OMC is obsolete, not outdated. The 1980 hydro-mechanical drive was a short-lived 3-year only problem child (78-80) quickly replaced with the full mechanical shift There are 3 separate gear boxes, not including the tilt clutch gearbox...

Measure the tube to the point 3.5" below the pan rail Measure the dipstick an put a mark that distance from the handle end

Coolers of beer?

Recent posts by @tpenfield and @bruceb58 have me thinking about smaller LiFePO batteries as the battery in the Fiat..... Ooohhh another rabbit hole of knowledge searching. .. Needs to be small enough to fit, and be charged from a dumb alternator (this is a Luddite build) Thinking two AGM...