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It’s all German stuff. It may well have been ficht who started it but it sure was Rotax who perfected it. Never heard of an etec failure. If it...

It’s my understanding that etec injectors use the same technology as ficht. It doesn’t use a high pressure fuel pump. The pressure is made by the...

Plain ole beef is > $12.00 lb. Makes my calculator dizzy! :D

I have checked 6 automotive machine shops that balance things, HINES balancers, real high tech but none will fit thru the spline area. There has got...

Also, he isn't building the flywheel from scratch or piecing it together from random salvaged parts - he's just trying to get it back together the...

I would imagine the small end is the least important number in the big picture. But then you have to ask yourself, do you want to do like the factory...

I believe i have a set of 3 liter merc carbs. Send me a text at 352-267-7350 if you have interest in them..

The only balancers I know that use tapered cones are wheel balancers at motorcycle shops and very few have them. Might do a light 2.5 flywheel, but I...

Turning distance on the motor is the same. If yours turns more right than left your steering need to be adjusted.

It's hard for me to understand how the same people can come up with an intake port that ducts 2/3 rds of the charge directly into the transfers ... ...

Don’t need a spline to match the splines in the flywheel. It would be mounted on an arbor between tapered cones.

When I was a kid back in the 80s I used to balance wheels on an old school manual wheel balancer. I always static balanced first. Then I would...

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a climate controlled environment is a plus. i used to use brown paper bags,spray inside w/ wd40. marked with sharpe

I can appreciate the thoughts that dynamic balancing is superior but in the case of a flywheel especially one so thin how much dynamic shift can...

Sure , 390's and 460's , 46 w/6-92's was a hoot w/20 people on board would accelerate so hard if you wern't holding on you would be on your ass...

what is it , Pantera ? whatever it is it looks like good clean FUN to me , any more pics ?

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I just found out today that the inline Verado was only 2-star CARB rated... Opti & ETEC were 3-star. Crazy how Merc slipped that past all the boating...

yup, the boat is a 1985, not one stress crack in the transom.

you need good knees to run and jump