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Originally Posted by TROR (Post 3742473)

Hey Ray, thanks for the input on the heat exchanger. I know your the man when it comes to the 496's and I respect your knowledge of these engines. However, I emailed you a while back for a price on the bk103 kit ,because you gotta start somewhere, and you told me I needed to sell my 496ho & build an 800hp blower motor to push my fat slow hull to 70 mph at altitude. I appreciate you not selling me something that will not get me where I want to be, but I was trying to do some cost comparisons
On building up the 496ho vs starting from scratch vs buying a used drop in. Im just looking at options so I get the most for my $$$. All hp is expensive, but 650-700hp that's efi is really expensive!!!!

LOL my take on this.... TROR "I need help". Raylar "I can help you just ask". TROR "I respect your opinion so I did ask you but you were a $&#!"

Rhyne Competition Racing Engines built custom 496's 525hp. bored my 420hp 454's to .30 over JE pistons, stroker cranks, Dart high rise intakes, Merlin head's ported & polished, Lightning Marine Exhaust Headers . She spins 5200 rpm with ez!
http://i1189.photobucket.com/albums/...troker/104.jpg

A plug and play way could just be a teague 900 or smaller. His packages are awesome and it will be reliable.

Pull your motor and keep it for resale later in the boat, or sell it now to recoup some cost.

Well, sold the 496HO, put in a complete 557 ci 650 hp custom build. LOVE IT!! Picked up 12 mph and after selling the HO, kept cost reasonable. Only thing is now I need Hydro steering, extension box, and a -2 imco to be safe/reliable!! The addiction goes up, the bank account goes down. Guess you can take it with ya when your gone!!! After this experience, I would recomend the drop in/plug & play. Worked out great for me. Thanks for the input fellas!