wow! really nice job! how did you go about fabbing that bellhousing adapter?

I thought about doing this with a 19' Bellboy, but I got sick of dealing with trying to find old Mercruiser parts, and finally sold that one and bought another Bellboy hull that can take my Yamaha outboard. But I think a diesel benz powered boat is a really great idea.

When I was looking into this conversion years ago, one of the things I was told by was to use a Volvo outdrive instead of Merc, since the Merc momentarily kills the spark while shifting and it would be hard to make a diesel work with that, whereas the Volvo has some kind of clutch. How did you deal with that?