[mtrain2000]

Watch out for old engines that were used in a boat. The older boat engines used river [or salt water] water to cool the engine.

What I have seen on some of these old engines is, nice looking blocks on the outside, but eat up on the inside.

A friend of mine bought [against my advise] two 289 engines from a boat [ I think they were called interceptors, but I can't remember].

I told him about the water problem, but he didn't listen, and tried to bore one of them .030, and hit a rust bubble hole in two cylinders.

I would pull the freeze plugs, and try to get a look at the insides as much as I could before sinking any money into it.