i’m not sure if the gaskets will work on the VR 55 I know it will work on the VR 45 and VR 50 but nobody seems to know what the correct cylinders are, Nice find maybe a little difficult to find the stuff to put it together though, we have a club member that has been looking for parts for one for many years they seem to be as rare as frogs fur and hens teeth, I do know also the cylinder heads are unique and padded on both sides inside and have a number stamped on them, crankshaft cylinders and cylinder heads will be the hardest parts the find, I hope your crankshaft is good! The rest of the motor is common and same as many other motors 😎
Well looks like what I have is a VR rope plate on a service motor! Started taking it apart today, and found that hole on the mag plate is smaller than the hole on my XR55 mag plate. The XR55 and the VR55 are supposed to be the only two 4 cylinder OMC motors that share that mag plate with the larger hole as they have the extra room of the bearing at the top of the crankshaft.