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Silver Crown engines themselves are not that unique other than most run a conventional front cover and belt driven oil and water pumps to accommodate the starter mandrel on the crankshaft hub. Many engine parts are hard to come by with long lead times these days, pistons and rocker arms seem to a big problem. However, driveline parts like the Tilton clutch/bellhousing/input shaft/u-joint assembly are long since out of production. Peterson no longer builds the starter mandrel, Sanders no longer offers the extended fuel pump/power steering pump drive assembly needed when you run the clutch, and so on…the ASCS engines are legal, if one wanted to run one. Some current engine builds are now using the available and relatively affordable Chevy LS7 heads.
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