1977 SeaCraft Seafari 2006 Etec 150

[Vezo, Part II]

Guess it's time I bring this up for thoughts prior to the scallop get together. I'm overall very impressed with my purchase, the quality of workmanship, and the price paid. However I have questions about performance. The 20 inch transom was redone with Okume plywood and overbuilt, as seen by a core sample given to me at purchase. The 20 inch outboard had been previously mounted in all four holes, as seen by wear marks of all four. She is currently mounted in third from top, and the previous owner stated that was best performance, with cavitation plate even with keel, including the Viper SS prop. I now have the prop lock key, here in SC, but Frigg It!!! is in Florida so I do not know prop size yet. I had brought her back to SC to have my guys here raise the engine one hole. River tested and she very quickly overheated and went into limp mode. Back to the shop and the engine was lowered to third hole just hours before my last trip to Hernando Beach. No problems with temperature issues but at WFO she again went into limp mode, in the freaking HB Canal. Threw the anchor and waited. Primed the bulb, which I've never had to, and she fired. Thought maybe she had pulled air. I assisted with the nightmare of installing the NMEA cables thru the loom, and the ducer cable back thru opposite direction. The (factory?) blue fuel line from the hose barb located dead center of block to the EFI rail, was removed for some reason and replaced with black ethanol compliant fuel line, causing me to have some doubt. Also, I've been told that outboard may require a trip to a dealer to have the overheat code cleared before getting back to full RPM. I know. A lot of variables. I do not think this arrangement will hold plane much below 3K, which sucks. This is without using tabs.