I have a Ford 460 Big block that I want to install in a jet boat ( i just acquired) problem #1 There are no motor mounts or anything else that goes with mounting the engine onto this fiberglass boat.
Question #1 What is the first thing I need to buy?  and where?   

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I have a set of BBf/Berk 3 point mounts if needed

Dan'l

If you don't know the answer to my question or want to help then don't write anything at all!  Dumb comments are useless.  I said I had a Ford Motor why comment on buying a Chevy. Waste of time.

you need to go to a marine site or craigslist ford mounting plates. then just install in your boat. its pretty easy. And i know some fast ass fords out there. run what ya got

I have a set of bbf 3 point mounts if your interested. I'm in Moreno Valley an work in riverside

If you don't know the answer to my question or want to help then don't write anything at all!  Dumb comments are useless.  I said I had a Ford Motor why comment on buying a Chevy. Waste of time.

Good way to insult people who are only trying to relay their experience(s) to you. You want to put "X" engine in a Jet Boat that nobody knows what it was set up for originally, and you don't have ANY parts - the only reason you want to use the engine you have is because it is free. Good luck, sounds like you'll really need it - oh be sure to piss of the guy at the parts counter too, you get really good deals that way.

I agree, nothing wrong with a Ford - I drive one everyday. I don't just mean engine parts, this guy has nothing (as I understand it) Chevy logs, mounts and the like are far more common than ones for a BBF.  I assumed he was trying to save money by using a free engine, if he wants to spend thousands of dollars on it, he can bring it to ME. LOL

The differences in weight from whatever the boat was designed for can be critical to balance, weight, and center of gravity. A 350 Buick for example weighs in several hundred pounds lighter than a BBF.

I think trying to work around engine "X" and putting into boat "Y" demands a bunch of research, and math. Like I said - Good Luck!~

Edited when I remembered it was the 350 Buick that was the lightest of the iron V-8's

For example, I recently changed from iron heads, and intake to aluminum - only to find out that it changed my center of balance so much that you could no longer pick the tongue of the trailer up. I had to add the weight back with a 2nd battery and a heavy tool box.

you need to go to a marine site or craigslist ford mounting plates. then just install in your boat. its pretty easy. And i know some fast ass fords out there. run what ya got

If his boat was built with a 460/429 Ford I'd agree wholeheartedly - otherwise I think that is horrible advice (just install in your boat, pretty easy?) My guess is y'all all run in calm water, in straight lines, and power down to make a u-turn to return. Hell of a lot more to setting up a boat than bolting a random engine in it. Hire a test pilot!

GC-
The O.P. said 'I gotta ford, What is the first thing I need to buy?

He left It wide open...
No skittles
No gate valves
Just sayin'

Dan'l
Still got BBF 3 point mounts

Dan'l I guess he also didn't notice the 3 point mount that you even mentioned in your 'waste of time' posting.

GC- I'm not saying Chevy is superior, I'm saying you can't just willy-nilly put any engine you want in any hull without giving some regard to what it was designed to use. I didn't get the impression that he wanted to use the 460 because it was a superior jet boat motor (not gonna argue that) but because it was the engine he HAD. That is usually the wrong/hard way to proceed - you won't save money by using a free random engine that you have to scrounge up every marine and jet boat oriented part and system it will need. If you LOVE the engine and want to use it because it is good, do so. BUT if it's an old truck motor you just happen to have around....

I've done a bunch of hybrid automobile and large boat engine swap projects and from my experience you are doing it backwards - though you haven't said anything about the hull, perhaps it came with a 460 and someone stole all the associated hardware?? Either use something very similar to the way the factory set your boat up with OR get a hull that uses a 460. Random hull + random engine= random failure. If you are an engineer and are prepared to figure it all out...forgive all my posts, but you don't sound that way. You said you wanted ADVISE not just directions to do it.

Newcomer, folks usually pay me for my advise which I am giving freely even after being insulted. If I'm wasting your time, keep it to yourself.
It sounds like the beginnings of one of those projects that will never get finished, which is lucky as it might just kill you if you do.

Newcomer u don't join a club and slam the people that are trying to help u. U join a club to fine out what u need to know and be thankful that this family is willing to help u in your needs. Just hear out what they are talking about some of these guys have bin in to boats before u were born. If u are a person that doesn't like to hear what people are helping u with then maybe this club isn't right for u. We are a tight family and we will help any body out in their time of need.

Well said, couldn't have said it better myself!