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One motor that does not get much attention, but it should is the early Mercury 350 starting in 1964. Mercury built this power head as a test engine to run and test lower units. The power head ran so well, that someone got the good idea to put it into production for the consumer. These all have the modern Phelon magneto and were great performers and very dependable. A lot of them were short shaft tiller motors, and they shared the same lower unit/tower assembly as the larger 4 cylinder motors. The later 400 and 402 were not even close to the motors as the earlier motors and they had issues with crankshafts. I am sure this was worked out by 1980 when the motor became a 35hp again. (These are pretty good motors also.) As was stated, the 35 Johnson from the late 70’s was a great engine also. Easy on fuel and good performance.
Steve