paul2748 (5/8/2018)
Don - Is a boat engine distributor the same as a car? Some boats had reverse rotation engines. I'm interested in yours. You have my address? Let me know what shipping is.
Paul
As a FYI, the reverse rotation Y engines used a standard rotation distributor. By using a gear drive for the camshaft, the camshaft in the right hand rotation engines rotated the same direction as the left hand rotation engines. The firing order on the cap was simply reversed but the distributor rotation is the same.
Another tidbid of information on the reverse rotation engines is that some single engine boats also had the reverse rotation engines installed. This was compensated for by either a reverser gear box or a reverse angle prop. The reverse rotation engines were not reserved for only dual engine boats. In order to make it cost effective to make the reverse rotation engines, it was necessary to make more reverse rotation engines than there were dual engine applications.