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This is like comparing apples and Oranges.

A marine engine is designed to run at high loads and speeds for long periods, pretty much like an industrial engine. If you get one that rotates the correct direction and install it in a car it will not last long as it is not really designed to accelerate off idle hundreds of times per day and take the other abuse an auto engine will.

The auto engine is designed to operate at varying loads and speeds for hundreds of thousand KM while operating at high RPM and load for breif periods. Also to think of, hundres of cold starts, running hot and cold, getting shut down way to hot and so on and so forth. A marine engine does not survive well under these conditions.

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