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The distributor and carb have been replaced and they actually replaced the distributor with a cable drive for the tach. The instrument cluster has a cable driven tach that winds counterclockwise......very cool!

Wow! Thanks for sending that pic. It is almost a duplicate of mine. And great to know what it is.

Thanks for all the info everyone! I'll check out Ebay for the brochure and thanks also for the pictures. Other than the exhaust manifolds, those are the ones. I'm anxious to get inside and figure out what is really here.

I cant wait to get into it, but cant take anything apart until I'm the official owner of the boat. It has just over 1400 original hours on it, runs perfect with no smoke on cold start. The second owner owned the boat since 1995 and the original owner had the boat custom built by my father-in-law...

You could be right and I thought about it being decked. The only other thing that came to mind is when Crusader bought these engines if they bought them in bulk (say in 62) and built them up when ordered. Would that explain the aluminum manifold with the 8/21/63 date stamp? The boat is a 64...

Thanks Dave. I just checked out the "marine" search and came up with some good info but still many questions. A question for all......I got back down to the boat and tried to find the numbers on the engine. Also shot a couple pictures. It is a 1964 "Crusader Marine" engine installed in...

I am looking for any information available on old Crusader Marine 409 engines. I am buying a 1964 boat with an originally installed, and unrebuilt, running Crusader 409. I found that there was a specific 409 version used for boats with the "IJ" suffix stamped on the block, but can find no...