On Jun 16, 7:33 am, Tim wrote:
Frank from Deeetroit wrote:

Looks like a smallblock chevy that is installed with the front of the engine
facing to the rear of the boat. The water pump and belts look like they are
mounted on the back of the engine and the drive shaft would be connected to
the front of the engine.

That's what I was thinking. a'la Chris craft.

Chris' Dad here. Mr. Slikk was with Chris Craft before he started his
own brand, SlickCraft. Makes sense that he would use the same engine
layout and maybe the same supplier of engines. Here are more
pictures. The two engines look identical, but the chrome valve covers
and automatic choke indicate a later rebuild in San Diego, at
Aquamarine. The casting numbers on the block say GM and the numbers
indicate either a 327 cid or 350 cid. The 4bbl. carb is on both
engines, as are Mallory distributor, cap, coil. The belt drives in
"front" turn in opposite directions on the two engines. The two props
and shafts are direct and have no U-joints. So the mounts cant the
engine to the rear in line with the prop shafts. The valve covers
have four bolts. We have removed and reamed out the two exhaust
crossovers, which were indeed cruddy inside. The carb air cleaners
are the flame-arrestor type required on boats. This engine turns over
slowly when starting. The other starts right up on the same four
batteries.

Question: Where's the flywheel, and where's #1 cylinder? The rebuilt
engine has #1 marked on the distributor cap at the sp wire going to
right rear cylinder. If i have reverse rotation, will the #1 cylinder
be in front? Will the firing order be the same on both engines? The
rotors turn in the same direction, clockwise, on both.

Thanks a lot for your information!
RevDave

Today i take out the two-year-old gasoline and put fresh gas in.
Should help us.
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Apparently photobucket makes the files smaller. I took them in a
large format. The only thing I can tell you is to open them in your
computer's default image viewer program, and just enlarge it from
there.