sbc boat engine,anybody ever use one....

I got a 63 283 from a Chirs Craft found it in a back yard. The boat was gone but it was still mounted to the main stringers. IT sat in thair ass backwards with a trans off what would be the front. Just about every thing was strange from a car engine.The block was real rusty in side one thing thing that helped clean it out was a cable on a drill running it in all the core plug. Its in my 29 and runs like a champ.

 

Cool. If they ran in salt, though, different story. I've never seen so much slag. Webs between cylinders were nearly see-through.

Ditto, I forgot, special gasket set, including SS headgaskets and special "leakproof" pan gasket.

Buick sold the odd-fire six a lot of places, including to Chris Craft.

Car engine into a boat, ok.
Reverse swap, better have been a freshwater application.

 

Or keep it for some weird trophy.....

 

the other thing about boat motors that I remember was that they have more piston to wall clearance due to the fact that the pistons are hot and the block is cooled with cold water. some ran a closed loop cooling system though...

 

Ski Nautiques and other Correct Craft boats are single engine reverse rotation. But I haven't seen any of those with 307 engines. The starter is an easy way to check rotation.
Most modern marine engines are offered with an optional heat exchanger cooling system for use in salt water that circulates antifreeze through the engine and one side of the heat exchanger and saltwater through the other side of the heat exchanger.

 

Got a Volvo-Penta 350 for free, ran it for 12000 miles in my truck before a cracked head finally necessitated a new engine. It may have been cracked the whole time I drove the truck, though, but when a rusty cylinder chewed up the ring it still ran fine, it just puffed steam out the breathers and made the oil look like a yucky-ass milkshake.