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Offline Hotwired

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Mating season
« on: August 09, 2010, 12:21:35 PM »
Mating season ... anyone tried to mate a OMC engine to a Mercruiser drive?  Does anyone know what a Glastron 155 V8 is displacement and block? Must be smaller than a 302 ford or 305 Chevy.
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Re: Mating season
« Reply #1 on: August 09, 2010, 12:43:28 PM »
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Re: Mating season
« Reply #2 on: August 09, 2010, 12:55:20 PM »
As much as I need another project .. I am considering one. I found a basket case CV-16V8 .... and a Mercruiser 898 engine and drive. I am wondering 'bout converting it from OMC to a Mercruiser drive system.
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Re: Mating season
« Reply #3 on: August 09, 2010, 01:12:44 PM »
I heard that SEI makes an adapter for OMC outdrives.
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Re: Mating season
« Reply #4 on: August 09, 2010, 01:22:39 PM »
I would be mainly looking to gain the trim that Mercruiser offered at the time. but a newer generation Volvo Penta engine and drive would be a consideration too.

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Re: Mating season
« Reply #5 on: August 09, 2010, 01:31:11 PM »
They made a CV16 V8 with an OMC Stringer drive? I thought back then it was either MerCruiser or Volvo.  Big job to do that due to the larger cut-out in the transom for the OMC. If the blocks are the same all the Mercruiser stuff could be unbolted off the Merc engine and right back on to the OMC.
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Re: Mating season
« Reply #6 on: August 09, 2010, 01:47:03 PM »
The boat I am looking at is a 76 CV-16ssV8 and the brochure I have list i's power as a Glastron 155 V8. Complete wood replacement needed it looks like and it is already in pieces.


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Re: Mating season
« Reply #7 on: August 09, 2010, 01:57:55 PM »
Chris - I'm gonna guess that's the Volvo drive w/302 Ford engine and Glastron's name on it. Just a guess.

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Re: Mating season
« Reply #8 on: August 09, 2010, 02:05:13 PM »
It is a 302 block. Glastron was using volvo outdrives and had their own engine line for the 302 and 351 engines. The CV-16 V8 was detuned to 155hp.
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Re: Mating season
« Reply #9 on: August 09, 2010, 02:26:56 PM »
So .. .do you think a Mercruiser 888 drive would bolt up to a Glastron 155??? And is just the bell housing different between the 898 and 888? I have yet to find a 888 but have a local 898 complete package here in Phoenix.  Assuming a Glastron 155 was a 155hp setup, a 200 HP 898 package should be a bit of a performance upgrade... wonder how a 260 package would fit in there? ... getting way ahead of myself already but ..... a 260 HP CV-16ssV8 .... would be a interesting boat.
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Re: Mating season
« Reply #10 on: August 09, 2010, 04:05:39 PM »
Chris I not sure but I believe that the ford motors are a 60degree motor and the gm are 90 degree.  Which make the gm blocks wider than the fords. But iam with you on that a cv 16 with a 260hp+  would be a neat project. Good luck see you at the meet Jeff
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Re: Mating season
« Reply #11 on: August 09, 2010, 06:05:07 PM »
You guys continue to blow me away with your knowledge of what bolts to what and what was offered etc. Amazing to me!
CV16 V8 would definitely be cool Chris.
Why dont you just make it a jet?
Maybe you've had your fill with thru the hull exhaust and want something quiet.
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Re: Mating season
« Reply #12 on: August 09, 2010, 06:49:18 PM »
LOL ... am considering through hull actually if it will fit!  Jet was a fleeting choice too ... but I think it might move the engine further forward that the engine cover would allow.
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Re: Mating season
« Reply #13 on: August 09, 2010, 07:01:03 PM »
Thats true, they do come further forward. You have to back into the jump seats in my Crestflite its so narrow, and I am not a very big person! Maybe a tall guy like youself could rotate after you get back there.  :D
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Re: Mating season
« Reply #14 on: August 09, 2010, 11:10:19 PM »
The 77 CVX 18  were Ford powered with Mercruiser.  Don't know what the number on the outdrive is however!
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Re: Mating season
« Reply #15 on: August 09, 2010, 11:43:59 PM »
My '77 Formula had a 351 in it. 233 Mercruiser designation. Bleve the 302 was rated at 188 hp?
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Re: Mating season
« Reply #16 on: August 10, 2010, 10:28:19 AM »
Chris my Dad who used to be a Ford guy said the 302 and 351 were different blocks so I would think there would be big differences between the 888 and 898 MerCruiser drive systems. But I guess you can make anything fit/work if you really want to. Just look at Bob P's boat! ;D

My BIL had a Formula. Talk about a boat that's put together. Wow!
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Re: Mating season
« Reply #17 on: August 10, 2010, 12:18:22 PM »
Quote from: CVX Fever on August 10, 2010, 10:28:19 AM
...... Just look at Bob P's boat! ;D


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Re: Mating season
« Reply #18 on: August 17, 2010, 09:04:24 PM »
"Chris my Dad who used to be a Ford guy"

What happened...did he convert?  :D
Usually when a dad is a ford guy, so is the son, but I know you are not, Kip. Nor am I. When I was a kid, my dad (and us boys) hated fords. Last 3 vehicles my dad had...Fords, all Areostars. The first one served him so well he bought another. That one life ended thanks to a deer.
Vehicles are so different now they what they were and "mated, cross bread, not sure it matters much anymore. Its more about whether you like they way they look or not.
OK off topic.  :P
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Re: Mating season
« Reply #19 on: August 17, 2010, 10:12:33 PM »
Funny, my Dad had 2 Aerostars...ran forever.
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