Tricks that old racers get up to after retirement

[powerabout]

Are you making the all conquering 2.0 ltr race engine?
Its not possible to improve on that!

[jackiewilson]

I got ten of those on the shelf Pilgrim, getting better each day, the power head don't look like a lump of firewood any more, mid section looks like it's by design and not accident!
Gary sent me over a bunch of race props so we're cooking with acetylene . Putting both the White wings in the same frame, remember 7000 & 700. Nearly finished John Sherlocks 17' Molinari / Evinrude ------looks half tidy too.
You wanna buy a wing or a Molli I got eight of each, go for a later model, I got better as I went along, same with the motors, I actually think I made the Jonrude that OMC "TRIED" to make, they were never "Pretty or even fair looking pieces of kit were they?
Mine has changed all that-----J/S is doing the paint job so the finished product should be interesting.

[jackiewilson]

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"Clash of the titewings "?
Moments after this was taken, the whole lot wound up on the floor with a fair amount of damage to both wings, got a days work tomorrow doing a repair job !
I always had a butterfly mind and I had a sudden idea of how to do the stacks on the lathe out of solid so I had to do it there and then, made the first pipe then polished it, the vibration disturbed the wings and the result was a days repair!
Some you win, some you lose, sometimes you just get bloody careless as was the case today.
A very large CC7 eased the pain.

[jackiewilson]

Is that not the best looking Race Rude ever, it's as they mighta been,

[jackiewilson]

Got to thinking about Pilgrims comment on the all conquering 2 liter Merc, I suppose it is the basis for most rigs of the sixties and seventies and so I made a fairly simple concept.
Thats what I was into when the wings fell ofn the workbench, typical that I should start arse backwards and do the stack pipes first, did shape the power head and finish two megas before closing time.
Also decided not to put the White wings together but mount them separately facing each other, it's just an idea!
Daughter Sam is going to ship the pieces to Marks shop anytime soon, I need the space and I don't want to leave it 'till the last minute!
Do you realise, time flies when your having fun, we are half way in the year since the November Tavares . I'd better get a wriggle on, got a head full of ideas I want to try out, plus I have to build a lean to addition at the back of the pool room which is now my showroom, as I still have the grass cutter and garden tools in there, I need them out so I can fit more shelving.
Wet,wild and windy is today's forecast, tomorrow the nation goes to the polls to decide who rules for the next five years, there's a lot to be said for a two party system, but there's a lot of folk don't like either of their policies so a third option is necessary , but we have a system where as many as ten candidates contest the same seat, ridiculous!

My bet is Cameron to win with a tiny fragile majority!
Labour to lose most of the their Scottish seats.
SNP to become a right pain in the arse.
UKIP get a thrashing and gain nothing.
Greens lose the only seat they got.

take it to the bookies you'll get 10/1 on that forecast.

the shop is calling, see if I can post you a piccie lunchtime.

[powerabout]

I meant the omc 2.0 ltr

[jackiewilson]

I meant the omc 2.0 ltr

They always claimed they didn't have one. Velden did come second in Germany in the first heat, he never made the start of the second heat. OMC never did like a level playing field!
They did have a great 850 cc motor for the E class, Mercury couldn't live with it !

[powerabout]

Lasse pasted the results, it did win a series and a few races I thought, then they packed it up and got on with the cross flow and that was that till the V8

[jackiewilson]

Lasse pasted the results, it did win a series and a few races I thought, then they packed it up and got on with the cross flow and that was that till the V8

Parkinson and I ran the FONDA F1 series for a year until OMC BOUGHT the series, then we ran FONDA GRAND PRIX SERIES for another 10 years and in all that time OMC,
never won a single race! Ask Lassie all you want, I saw damn near every race, OMC drivers were told to stay away.

[jackiewilson]

By the way, it was OMC that told their drivers to stay away, we welcomed any colour, creed or country as long as it had a max of two liters.
South Africa had a shed load of Jonrudes and they all came out to play, they didn't win, but they put up a hell of a show.

You got the same sort of split in offshore, I tell you what, it wants sorting, and quick or they will end up like the circuit boats.

doesn't anyone get the message here, 100 -----200 offshore boats for a poker run, twenty five for an offshore event split into classes of three to five boats. More bitching than even Mercury and OMC ever dreamed up.
Our Lord and masters in the form of theUIM and APBA should be leaping about legislating, pleading, begging, getting the sports elders to come on board and help sort it!
Unfortunately, it ain't never going to happen.
Unattainable rules and regs and the costs that go with it have seen the decline in boat racing as we knew it, would be a shame if offshore went down the same tube.

If you think I'm talking out of my rectum, take a look at The KenWarby situation! The one man in the world who KNOWS record breaking is hog tied to the jetty by an unattainable list of rules and regs set by the UIM.

I VERY MUCH DOUBT THERE WILL EVER BE ANOTHER WORLD RECORD ATTEMPT,

[jackiewilson]

Update on he Rude/Molli combo for John Schubert, coming along nicely.

[jackiewilson]

That's my new look concept of a straight six with pipes, it's in English oak, Aluminum cav plate and Gearcase, decided earlier efforts were a bit mundane, so I'm trying to get a bit of character into the lump. Nothing ventured and all that !!!

[jackiewilson]

Only minor damage, few paint chips, got an idea on the mounts, will play it by ear
Thursday again, car boot sale at Ford. Talk later.

[powerabout]

Only minor damage, few paint chips, got an idea on the mounts, will play it by ear
Thursday again, car boot sale at Ford. Talk later.

the one in the background reminds me of this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZD3OICzTAs

[jackiewilson]

Pilgrim, I give you ten to one that's an American design from twenty years ago the russkies nicked and thought they were smart.
U.S. Navy is light years ahead of anyone in flight and marine propulsion, they don't need to "emulate" anyone.
All you got to do is be grateful !