I have no association with vehile sale or seller.

It appears to have a marine equipped slant 6!


https://www.craigslist.org/view/d/manch ... r5Mwzuigdo

Greg

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Cool. The block appears to be quite different than any car/truck 225 block I have seen. Big ribs and bulges and/or lifter oiling passages (??) on the side shown in the engine pic. If I wanted to grind up a bunch of money and time, or maybe if I lived on a lake, I'd buy that thing.

Lou

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Um.

This what we're looking at should not exist. It is an aluminum 225 in boat service. Never a factory deal for obvious reasons (corrosion, OMG). Somebody at some point went and fetched a used 225 out of a wrecking yard and swapped all the marine bolt-ons onto it (except the distributor, as it seems; that's a roadgoing one, not a marine one). I would worry hard about this block's internal condition.

Those "big ridges" are, yup, the first-version aluminum block's bosses for lifter oiling passages – never used in factory production; the (very good) idea of using hydraulic lifters was abandoned for cost reasons when they decided the much greater expansion of aluminum vs. iron wasn't going to affect cold vs. hot valve lash badly enough to make the engine commercially unacceptable.

Something else doesn't quite add up here: it's advertised as a 1961-model boat, but in 1961 the marinized Slant-6 was still a few years in the future. Maybe the boat was built with some other kind of engine.

All of that might help explain another anomaly: this engine is painted Chrysler engine blue, or damn near – a colour which didn't exist when this boat was built.

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An engine that shouldn't exist should have some history of where it came from!

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Thanks for all of the detailed information Dan!

Some slanted marine collebery there for sure!


Greg

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I wondered when I saw the pic whether it was an early aluminum block. I have one of those that looks similar. Yes, not a good idea for corrosion.
Lou

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It's not that the engine shouldn't exist; there were somewhere between 50,000 and 53,000 or so that existed just fine.

It's that this particular engine doesn't belong in/didn't come from a boat.

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Got you! I thought it was more specialer!

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I don't want to imply that an aluminum block is a GOOD idea in a boat, but this particular boat is located between Lake Ontario and the Finger Lakes, so has likely only ever seen fresh water, so it might not be as much of a BAD idea as those of us born by the ocean might first assume.

And, No, I ain't buyin' it.

- Eric