[Gary Hill]

BRAYND,
The easy way here is buy the long block and rebuild the carb or buy new. Fresh water cooling is a good way to go, it saves the engine, two years ago I put in a new engine and trans. looking back I would have just had the trans rebuilt, I gave the whole works to a friend of a friend for his SEACRAFT and he has done nothing with it, but it was fresh water cooled and still a 76 unit running good. I was going to pull the motor and update it, when my wife said, "what are you stupid", I made the comment if I had to pull the engine/trans I would put a new engine/trans in. I put a new unit in and I put 3" spacers in to help keep out water ingestion into the engine, I think is the way to go. I went from a 351 233 to a 350, 315 hp good move so far, I have two friends each with 225 four sroke on 23 foot boat's and while running at 3200 rpm I get the gass milage they do.