I left the country for the last two weeks, delivering a yacht to St Thomas. So I didn't discuss the project much with the installers. I was not totally sure what size motor to get. I knew I wanted a white small block and decided to go for the 200HP model.
The original plan was to use a jack plate. I requsted the installer put on an aluminum splash plate to raise my transom back up to the original 25". This morphed into putting on two thick aluminum plates and eliminating the jack plate. They put spacers in between them also, which stiffens up an already strong transom.
For the prop, I let the installer decide for me. They picked a three blade stainless steel--ok I guess fast is good. I wanted the digital gauges--two of the large ones. I may add two small gauges to fill the gaps.
Next up, is registering the boat and I'll probably rewire the whole boat.
I am thinking about removing the T-Top and repainting it and that might be a perfect time to form up a hardtop.
I am a happy camper. The motor looks so good, I'll have to spruce up the boat. I'm thinking about using a hard finish bottom paint, and perhaps at some point I'll repaint the topsides.
