Well, it time for more restoration. I'm in the middle of a complete engine rebuild.

I had a sticky lifter this past summer and since I've never really done anything to the engine, I decided to just do a freshen up on the whole engine. Bearings, seals, gaskets, lifters and a cam. Of course I was going to have a machine shop go through the heads.

It's turned out to be providential that I tore the engine down as far as I did. The boat had new exhaust manifolds on it when I purchased it. And now I think the old manifolds failed and let water back in the engine. I had two pistons that were disintegrating from water damage. That in turn scored the cylinder walls. I also had some cracked valve seats.

So the block is getting a .30 over bore, crank is being turned, heads completely gone through, etc. I've got the parts coming in next week and the machine shop will press in the cam seals and the pistons onto the connecting rods. I'll then bring everything home and start the assembly process.

It's going to be a lot of expense and time, but in the end I'm looking forward to a basically new engine and seeing what the performance is. Does anyone know what type of horsepower I should see from the slightly larger displacement? I'm not thinking it'll be much, but since I likely wasn't getting full power before, I think I'll definitely feel a difference.