Help me choose a car engine for a boat!

Pkiernan · 15-03-2010 05:30PM

For boats, economy and grunt tend to be mutually exclusive.

Remember that there will be no gearing!

I had a Mastercraft wakeboarding boat with a 5.7 liter V8 Corvette engine - it was fantastic, and could hit about 45 to 50mph on the water.

But fuel economy was never mentioned! And this was in the States where the Marina would charge about $3.00 a gallon.

A days wakeboarding would use up about 40 gallons of fuel.

David09 · 15-03-2010 06:46PM

I'm breaking a rotten 98 ford transit 2.5 di? Would the engine be any interest to you? I'm not sure what the prerequisites are for what you're doing but the engine in the van is 2.5 non turbo diesel and is direct injection, therefore not equipped with any glowplugs. It starts first turn, cold or hot.
They're an ultra reliable lump, with some good design features such as non-interference in the event of timing belt breakage and as mentioned the absence of glowplugs for starting.
The downside is that they can be noisy and underpowered.

If you have any interest in it PM me.

CJhaughey · 15-03-2010 08:22PM

Yanmar already do a marinised version of the Toyota 1HD-FT engine, it's good for 230kw or so.
They call it the 6LP-STP.
Should be easy to find and setup with a few additional Yanmar parts.

Help me choose a car engine for a boat!

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