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Default Speaking of outboards...

Matt Colie wrote:
Ed,


There are a whole lot of three cylinder outboards without camshafts out
there, but they are all 2-stroke. Even if you are planing to make it a
single acting uniflow, you may have trouble with the exhaust port height.

--Fixable.

Given that you won't have to cool it, you could make this work by
sleaving the it so it can still use a stock piston. Then you can put
the exhaust pots where you want them and then you only need to make a
new cylinder head and camshaft pair and linking drive.

--Hmmm neat idea. Got any pointers to make/models to look for?
Complete novice here..

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