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Chrysler Marine V-8s
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04/28/09 09:46 PM
04/28/09 09:46 PM
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Fredericktown, PA 15333
maundmotorworks
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I picked up a Chrysler Marine 383/260HP engine today from the local wrecking yard. It's complete with carb, mounts, gearbox, water cooled exhaust, timing cover w/ tach drive (yes, that's correct). Anybody else on here have a Marine big block? Just curious... 
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Re: Chrysler Marine V-8s
[Re: OzHemi]
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04/28/09 09:57 PM
04/28/09 09:57 PM
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Fredericktown, PA 15333
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Oz,
According to the tag, my engine is right hand rotation. I had been watching for this engine to come available for about 8 or 9 years now, and finally got it. I may be interested in your pan and cover for spares. I'm sure that there aren't too many of these engines floating around anymore, so I figured I'd grab it anyway and basically mothball it in the shop for a future project. The boat it was in was badly rotten, so they cut the engine out with a chainsaw. It's still bolted to pieces of the stringers of the boat. I got the complete engine with gearbox and prop shaft for $450, so I figured if nothing else, it's got to be worth that for parts especially since both exhaust manifolds are intact.
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Re: Chrysler Marine V-8s
[Re: OzHemi]
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04/28/09 10:02 PM
04/28/09 10:02 PM
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Believe it or not, that's not the first engine I've removed with a chainsaw. I bought another engine from a rotten houseboat a few years back and did the same thing. A cut through the stringers and floor in front and rear of the engine and a cut down the length of each stringer, and whoa-la...out the engine comes cradle and all. Makes it easy to strap down and haul away too since the engine's still bolted to something...
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Re: Chrysler Marine V-8s
[Re: maundmotorworks]
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04/28/09 10:05 PM
04/28/09 10:05 PM
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Garden Grove, CA
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Just to show what it looks like..
Out of curiousity, how much for that stuff?
Swap you for a handfull of magic beans ? 
I'll shoot you a PM 
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Re: Chrysler Marine V-8s
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04/28/09 10:33 PM
04/28/09 10:33 PM
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I have a marine block in my '56 ..it was right rotation ..but I put my original crank in and everything else from the 1968 440...just used the block...had very low time on the motor and the bores were perfect ...still got the heads and intake and AFB .ecu..and some other stuff ...steel crank ..but have to have the rear maim nearling ground off.. Oh ..and the Marina cut it out with a chain saw..Paid $100.00 for it..
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Re: Chrysler Marine V-8s
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04/28/09 10:46 PM
04/28/09 10:46 PM
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Believe it or not, that's not the first engine I've removed with a chainsaw. ...
Long time ago I was helping junk out an ugly old barge only thing worthwhile was the Chrysler flathead marine. I was roaring along cutting up the boat into sections with my saw, and throwing the junk on a trailer.
Went screeching along the bilge, a little water in the bottom and kerfreekin bloowie!!!! We, me it, the saw, the whole darn world stopped rotating. I can still see the stars in my eyes sometimes. I'd hit a nice big brass drain [Edited by Moparts - Keep it clean], right in the bottom of the bilge. Big 'ol McCullock never did run quite "straight" after that!!!
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Re: Chrysler Marine V-8s
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04/29/09 07:08 AM
04/29/09 07:08 AM
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Baton Rouge, La.
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I had a 392 Hemi from a boat years ago. It was the counter motor. It had 3 little 2bbl carbs on it. I hung on to it for years and one day I opened my outside storage shed and it was gone, every piece of it too. I had disassembled it when I got it to see what all was differant from the regular motor. Nobody in my family ever owned up to taking it.
76' Volare, 5.9 magnum w/Iron heads. New best 10.68 at 123 mph 1/4 mile.
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Re: Chrysler Marine V-8s
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04/29/09 10:24 AM
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minnesota
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I worked on inboard motors like that 383 for 10 years at a wood boat shop here in town. Only thing is that if it was used in salt water and didnt get flushed out it could be very rusty in the cooling jackets. Of course if it was a closed cooling system or used in fresh water then your fine.
I still have a 69 440 from a house boat with all its boat stuff still attached, someday I'll find something to put it in
Coolest motor I got out of a boat was a 409 dual 4 barrel motor that turned out to be from a 62 Impala! IT was 100% complete and running for $1000.00 I sold off the boat crap and had it ready to put in my 65 biscayne wagon when someone found out I had it and made me an offer I couldnt refuse!!!!!!!!!  
I know where 2 marine 440's are. Probably R&L matched pair. I have a 58 Century Resorter with a Cadillac Crusader, twin 4's, 300 hp. Haven't fired it yet- but should really fly! 
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