engine repair costs

[branhamautomotive]

I run royal purple in my race motor, I personally don't have any experience with wolf's head other than hearing nothing bad about it, I know some like Mobil 1, some Brad penn, on and on. I am sure they are all great, and will pass one form of test better than the others, the main key is no matters who's name is on it, make sure it's of good quality. There is some cheap junk oil out there, and even more important than the name on the bottle is make sure oil of some kind is in there, anything is better than none. Alot of ppl nevery pull that long skinny stick ever

[branhamautomotive]

This touches on the next question I hear alot. Remain stk hp or go up. We have found in most cases that most boat owners feel their bost could use extra power. And if increasing the hp by reasonable levels, 50 to 75hp, AND IF driven the same speed and way, you will almost always see a drop in fuel usage cause the motor is not having to work as hard to get done.

Now that being said, when we have extra power we almost never drive it the same way, cause the boat will run an extra 5 or 6 mph and we normally use it if we have it.

But either way rebuild or reman the hp comes for very little money

[pimplepounder]

My thoughts here, with a due respect.

Power does not come free. To get more power the two laws of Thermo Dynamics are always smacking us around. Efficiency is perhaps the most high performance quest we can have. If we could get a 1-1 relationship this would be awesome , but we cannot. Almost any hp increase is going to cost more in fuel, driveabilty,or engine wear. The engine is working harder because there are increases in compression, temperature, and pressures, even if rpm is less.

My thought are: if you do not think you have enough power, you do not have enough engine. You can give a scrawney guy some steroids, or just hire an big guy. Which one is going to pop a cork first?