Tl;Dr Is it possible to swap a 1980 80hp outboard to an OEM bracket that has power tilt/trim built into it?
Long version:
First time posting so hello! I have a 1980 outboard on my boat that doesn't have power tilt/trim built into it. I, instead, have a CMC power tilt which works fine but it causes my anti-cav plate to sit about 2" lower than the bottom of the boat. This causes tons of water to splash up the transom and into the transom well literally filling it in seconds once on plane. The outboard is already mounted as high as it can go so I either need a newer outboard (not really in the budget and I quite like this one) or a jack plate. The jack plate is currently how I'm going to remedy this but I don't like that idea of my outboard setback being another 3-6" on top of the 6-8" of setback from the CMC bracket. So I had a thought and couldn't find an answer to. Is it possible to swap part of my existing outboard mounting bracket to one that has power tilt/trim part of it. I think the inline 6s of the era had it and I believe they were added to 80hps of the later 80s. If I went this route I could get rid of the CMC bracket altogether.
Long version:
First time posting so hello! I have a 1980 outboard on my boat that doesn't have power tilt/trim built into it. I, instead, have a CMC power tilt which works fine but it causes my anti-cav plate to sit about 2" lower than the bottom of the boat. This causes tons of water to splash up the transom and into the transom well literally filling it in seconds once on plane. The outboard is already mounted as high as it can go so I either need a newer outboard (not really in the budget and I quite like this one) or a jack plate. The jack plate is currently how I'm going to remedy this but I don't like that idea of my outboard setback being another 3-6" on top of the 6-8" of setback from the CMC bracket. So I had a thought and couldn't find an answer to. Is it possible to swap part of my existing outboard mounting bracket to one that has power tilt/trim part of it. I think the inline 6s of the era had it and I believe they were added to 80hps of the later 80s. If I went this route I could get rid of the CMC bracket altogether.