Re: 68/67Chris Crafts Cavaliers
Without a bit more information I'll have to do some guess work on a couple of things here. On the fist picture, I believe the blue 'thing' in the backround is your cast iron muffler for the engine. I don't know what that coil is for. At first I was going to guess it might be an old refrigerator coil that has been installed in the engine compartment and maybe tied into the engine cooling system to warm & keep dry the engine compartment, but that doesn't make much sense as you have that 500lb hot engine to do that, so I don't know what it is, other than not original. The second picture (as has been said) is the potable hot water heater. In this case it is a good quality one as it will heat the potable water by electricity when tied up at at a pier & the boat is plugged into shore-side electricity, and it also has an extra coil running though it that is tied into the engine cooling system so that the engine cooling water heats the potable water when the engine is running (or at least this is the case if there are four hoses attached to the unit (I can see three of them). Two hoses should tie into the enging cooling, and two tie into the potable water system.) The third picture, of the PAR pump, should be your potable water pump for the head and galley sinks. The last picture, of the engine, would most likely be the original engine (keep it that way). This is a Chevy (GM) 327 CID block that C.C. rates at 210 HP.. That Chris Craft conversion is a very good engine and it would be well worth putting some money into if you need to. Can't tell much by these pictures, but by the little bit that can be seen it looks like maybe you did pretty well, things look pretty good.
