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laddie

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I blew my volvo penta and woul

I blew my volvo penta and would like to repower with chevy/omc. I have a fresh 350 and I need to know what I need for a marine conversion and what type of drive I need to look for. The boat is a Bayliner Explorer.
 
"Assuming the old engine was a

"Assuming the old engine was also a small block chevy, you should only need to swap the camshaft and move the intake, carb and all the external components, manifolds, risers, pulleys, pumps from the old engine to the new one.

I do not know why you would want swap a Penta for
an OMC though. Most people are trying to go other way and get away from the obsolete OMC drives."
 
"we have a 1971 trisonic we ar

"we have a 1971 trisonic we are in the process of repowering the boat, we have an inline 6 chevy 292 with 120 hours on it my question is can an omc 400 model#981871 handle this motor? this outdrive came out of a 1989 boat with 40 hours on it,the gear ratio is 1.65-1"
 
"start a new thread...why repl

"start a new thread...why reply to a thread from last year with an unrelated topic???
and no - OMC 400 only good to 150HP, a marine 292 is 200HP.."
 
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