Reply To: Starter motor questions

[David Stanton]

I used to have a mid 1970s 3 liter. The 3 liter is the basic 4 cyl Chevrolet engine that was the base engine in the first Chevy II’s (later called Novas), but gas was cheap then so nobody bought the 4 in the Nova. That base engine, bought from GM and built up by Mercury for marine use, has been a very reliable, long life marine engine for many years. The ones I’ve seen are 120, 130 , and 140 HP models. Mine was 140 HP. Bought the boat used in 1984 and ran the hell out of it every summer at dad’s lake cabin until 1999.
Dave