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If a Detroit is what you want, then by all means have at it! It should be a fairly easy swap, the engines are similar in size. One of my buddies is getting the urge to bob down an old deuce, and he wants to use a fuel injected 300 Ford gas engine. He has found a donor deuce sans engine and...
You get some boost from the supercharger, but they are there mainly to keep exhaust scavenging at optimal levels. The turbo helps recover some of the huge exhaust plume from the 2 strokes. I can remember one thing, wring off the blower drive shaft and she stops quick!
We ran a lot of Detroits in the charter boats, They screamed, leaked, and smoked. They did work well, but anyone who could afford it put in a Cat, or a Cummins. Cats and Cummins had better longevity ratings
The following designations are used with marine Detroits:
1) 6-71 (normal supercharged...