How to Marinise an engine?

Burnbaby76

Hi there,

I'm posting this on behalf of my Dad. He's an BMW engine that he's looking to put into his boat....

"Has anybody marinized a 530 turbo charged diesel engine? and if so what were the pitfalls and the cost or do they know of anybody that will provide that service.."

Cheers,

B.

fergal.b

Although many people over the years have used car and truck engines in boats it's not really worth the effort or money nowadays, for insurance sake you would have to change the electrics to marine like the starter motor, alternator and so on you would also have to buy a heat exchanger or marine manifold to fit the engine as you will never get enough air through a rad to cool it down.
Marine engines are also built with tougher camshafts and bearings as they spend most of their time on full rev's where a car engine would be half that.
In my opinion it would work out cheeper to just buy a marine engine with all the fittings than trying to convert a car engine.



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davlacey

a lot of boats have ford cargo engines 80 or 120hp they can handle the high revs and are cheap to replace ud pick one up for 500 or 600.