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Make sure you have either a keel cooler or a heat exchanger as putting raw water cooling through a car engine can result in a dead engine pretty damn quick.


I used to have an old 35-foot wooden fishing boat up in the Gulf of Finland. It had a 42-hp Volvo marine engine - basically an "marinized" Amazon engine running on low-quality fuel - and with seawater cooling. Ran great, but needed a new head every 6-7 years