yes joey,,your all set for salt water..you got the rite set up for salt water...the baja guy mis read what i wrote...

no chit really..reread,,i wrote closed cooling which means theirs antifreeze running through the engine..i know about the 496 and 525's cooling systems..did not know joes already had closed cooling on his boat..

Has anybody had problems adding a closed cooling system to a older boat that never had closed cooling and had been run in fresh water?

I was told by a builder he was afraid scale would clog the exchanger.

yes, I would not buy a salt water boat without knowing the history of it. Yours, I'd buy it in a minute but I don't want to spend 30 grand on a boat right now.... you're asking 30 grand for it, right?

I figured you didn't know that I had a closed system, makes all the difference.

My boat was 10 years old when PBC installed them on mine, I bought a mercruiser kits just like would have been installed as if they were new and they work great, no problem at all, PBC did a great job.

If i can take the stereo/amps/speakers and one engine out................OK deal............lol.

The boat is like new, I bought it when it had 60 hours on it and I've taken excellent care of it, PBC re-built the top ends when they installed the flush-out/closed cooling, less than 80 hours ago.

You did it up right with adding the closed cooling. That protects the engine block/heads/intake from saltwater. The seawater pump, power steering cooler, oil cooler, fuel cooler, heat exchanger, and exhaust manifolds/risers will still have saltwater exposure. Very nice setup.

Thanks for the nice comments, with anything I've ever owned I figured if you're going to do it, do it right, or don't do it, I had PBC pulled both engines and pretty much went through both engines, rebuild them and install the goodies before I had bajaholic (Brian) haul it down here, I didn't want any problems out in the open water.

Someone will eventually get a nice 353 when it's available next Spring.

We have always flushed our volvo small block boat, but when we started using salt away it was obvious the improvement just by looking as the water flow out of the outdrive when on the hose (flush kit between the waterpump and outdrive). The stuff is great

we put a closed cooling system on that same boat ^ after 200 hours of use, at 500 now and we have not had any issues with scale in the exchanger

Since moving down here all my boating has been in salt and while you can keep your boat pretty perfect if you try, the salt will corrode anything and everything if given the chance. Obviously if there were two identical boats for sale and one was from fresh water use only nobody on their right mind would buy the one used in salt. When I bought my previous boat it was from a guy in Las Vegas, I went there to sea trial it and they took me out for the day, it was awesome to just pull it out of the water take the trash out and be done! No rinsing, no flushing, and no washing! I'll take the beauty of the ocean and the hassle of the salt that comes with it though, as long as the boat has been properly cared for nothing wrong with a salt water boat.

The biggest irony of the "fresh water only guys" is they have never boated in salt water yet there were 200+ boats in Key West last week, some exceeding a million dollars in value that all were in the evil salt water......

Pretty much every MTI, Skater, Outerlimits, Cig, Nortech etc........................All hit salt water at some point in their usage and they all come out ok! :D