Jim, I am sorry if I struck a nerve about the Detroit 353s. When I read your reply I thought that you were a bit harsh. Anyway I will try and respond to your questions/comments.
The first question was about getting a Yanmar, well first thing I must tell you is that I am in California and we are sort of having a water shortage and due to lack of proper watering, my money tree died and I now don't have the money for Yanmars!! Second is about efficiency and fuel systems concerns. I realize that there are challenges with the fuel system when doing a conversion from gas to diesel and I know that I would have to actually get dirty but that is part of the deal. Do you think that the 318s are more efficient than the 353s? I don't want to have $60,000.00 into a boat that will never be worth more than $30,000.00 I don't think that is very cost effective do you? I guess I would have to ask why you have not converted your Detroits over to Yanmars and dump a little weight from your boat and gain some efficiency?? I have not purchased anything and am "considering" the conversion. I appreciate all of the helpful comments and suggestions so far from all of you that frequent this board. I think it is great that people are willing to share info, but keep in mind that not everybody knows everything (Jim) Thansk Again On Apr 13, 9:13 pm, [email protected] wrote: > When I read this is was thinking,what is this guy doing??? If you are going > to a diesel why bother thinking about these Detroits?? > For one,they are anything but fuel efficient and two if you are going to a > diesel why would you not get a Yanmar.(aluminum block) > Detroits of that age are two cycle. I must be missing something. > Even after thinking more about it consider these: A set of Racors are about > $1000 and plumbing is a little more involved. Coming off of the engines you > need return lines of which because Detroits return to the fuel tank about 70% > of what they pump. The return fuel is already of heated so is best to send it > through a cooler before the tank. > Some believe the warm fuel returned to the tank promotes algae growth if > tanks are not left full. > Other than what I have pointed out is..........What's not to like about > Detroits???? > Good Luck > Jim 48'YF > 6-71 Detroits > I am talking from experience > -------------- Original message from 31 SS <[email protected]>: > -------------- > > > > > > > Hello, I am considering converting my 71 33 SS from the standard 318s > > to Detroit 353s. I am told that the 353s will bolt up to my paragon > > transmissions. I wanted to know if anybody has converted one of these > > boats to small diesels and what other modifications need to be done. I > > think I would be fine with the 1 1/4 shafts as the engines are only > > like 108HP ea. > > > I have not bought the engines yet and I don't actually know what the > > guy wants for them but I bought a complete 318 standard rotation > > engine with transmission and V-drive with only 300 hours for $250.00 > > from him about 4 months ago so I assume I can get the diesels for a > > good price. They came out of an old cruzon running but most likely > > need to be overhauled. The parts are reasonable for these engines so I > > thought it may be a good way to go. > > > Any thoughts? > > > Thanks Ken- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "UnifliteWorld" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/UnifliteWorld?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
