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On a related note, I was working in a foreign car repair garage in Massachusetts some years ago and on a very slow day someone brought a boat in with a Volvo-Penta engine in it. Being a slow day, we took on the job. He'd done a valve job and never heated it up and retorqued the head, then he blew a headgasket 20 miles at sea, limped it back to shore and he couldn't get the thing started after replacing the gasket. The two gallons of salt water we drained from the sump might give you a clue as to why the piston rings were not sealing. It was _basically_ the in-line 6 from a 164 sedan (with three single barrel downdraft carbs feeding two cylinders each), BUT the marine engine had many different internal parts; you couldn't just go down to your local Volvo car dealer and get new parts, they had to come from a Volvo-Penta boat dealer.
That story is just to warn you that if these are marine engines, they might be very different internally from the car engines. What you are seeing is probably basically the same engine as ours. I know that the German Ford V-4 that is in the SAAB was used in marine/industrial applications. I have not heard this about the Brit V-4 engines, which are completely different and were only used in a few home market applications. In a marine application the camshaft and carb set-up may be different, as they are generally used for constant speed running, rather than accelerating and decelerating like a car. It might be a good base from which to build up a new engine, but I'm not sure it would be a bolt-in swap.
The German Ford V-4 used in Taunus cars was available as a 1300cc (with smaller bore, but the same stroke as the 1500cc), 1500cc (as in the European and early US SAABs) and 1700cc (same bore as the 1500cc, but longer stroke as in the later US cars) versions. I don't know what sizes were available in the marine/industrial applications. The Brit engine, which will _not_ bolt up in the SAAB, came in a 2.0L version.
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