I’ll save everyone the time and headache over the mess of a story that I’m in and I’ll make it short.
Engine block is cracked in a 1979 mercruiser 228. It’s carbureted and is a Chevy small block 305 marine variant.
needless to say, that engine will be coming out and I’ll probably part it out or save parts and pieces of it if I decide to grab a 350 small block and bolt all my marine hardware on.
I have found a complete mercruiser 5.0. It’s a late 90s model and is electronically fuel injected. Seller sent me a video of the engine turning over and said if I made the drive to him he would be sure that I see the motor running before I left with it if I decided to buy it.
one big advantage of this 5.0 is that it has closed loop cooling system
would this EFI engine be plug and play into my old (‘78) dash?
if needed where could I get a new harness/dash cluster?
Ive never pulled a carbureted engine in anything and swapped it with an EFI engine. Any advice is welcome, and the only reason I’m considering doing this swap is that the complete EFI running engine is $400 and has already been pulled from a boat with a destroyed transom.
will my shifter/throttle? Need to be replaced?
what needs to be replaced....?
Engine block is cracked in a 1979 mercruiser 228. It’s carbureted and is a Chevy small block 305 marine variant.
needless to say, that engine will be coming out and I’ll probably part it out or save parts and pieces of it if I decide to grab a 350 small block and bolt all my marine hardware on.
I have found a complete mercruiser 5.0. It’s a late 90s model and is electronically fuel injected. Seller sent me a video of the engine turning over and said if I made the drive to him he would be sure that I see the motor running before I left with it if I decided to buy it.
one big advantage of this 5.0 is that it has closed loop cooling system
would this EFI engine be plug and play into my old (‘78) dash?
if needed where could I get a new harness/dash cluster?
Ive never pulled a carbureted engine in anything and swapped it with an EFI engine. Any advice is welcome, and the only reason I’m considering doing this swap is that the complete EFI running engine is $400 and has already been pulled from a boat with a destroyed transom.
will my shifter/throttle? Need to be replaced?
what needs to be replaced....?