Intake device in engine for outboard engine system

An intake device in an engine for an outboard engine system comprising:

• an engine block subassembly for supporting a crankshaft in a vertical attitude, and having a plurality of cylinders formed therein to extend rearwardly from said crankshaft;
• a cylinder head coupled to a rear end of said engine block subassembly;
• a throttle body disposed in front of said engine block subassembly;
• a plurality of intake pipes extending from said throttle body through left and right opposite sides of said engine block subassembly and connected to said cylinder head;
• an intake silencer mounted above said throttle body, said intake silencer including
• an intake-air introducing pipe extending upwardly from said throttle body,
• an intake silencing chamber into which an upper end of said intake-air introducing pipe opens, and
• an air intake pipe which opens at an upper end thereof into said intake silencing chamber and extends downwardly from said intake silencing chamber.