The Sinking Of The OutBoard Marine Corporation -

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Originally Posted by H2OPERF

Might fly with some borrowed alien antigravity help from area 51 ...

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I think they helped with the Morse 33c rotor mast … :eek:

The non-retractable landing gear / water brake .. :)

I do like the twin rubber band powered tail rotors … ;)

And of course, the interference fit between the bubble and rotor .. you only have to open it once while the rotor is still spinning .. to know it was a bad idea … :leaving:

These actually flew with early omc v4 power, I remeber seeing one at the sun n fun fly in lakeland, it had a 33c cable for tail rotor control lol..

There were quite a few gyro copters with omc v4 back in the late 70’s as well.

https://youtu.be/9bgsrJNMouE ...wankel effort...

Is there going to be a 'sinking of BRP Evinrude' thread?

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Originally Posted by Mark Poole ModVP

Is there going to be a 'sinking of BRP Evinrude' thread?

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...i don't know...good question.:o evinrude's been buried about four different times throughout their history. they are like those little birthday cake candles that you can't blow out. should we even bother? i don't think you can compare the monstrous amount of really bad financial & marketing & engineering mistakes OMC made over the decades, to BRP's single attempt to bring back the brand. apples and oranges.

I F***ing hate changing oil.

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Originally Posted by Capt.Insane-o

I F***ing hate changing oil.

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That's not a good statement from the resident "Sportmaster Guru" … :D :leaving:

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Originally Posted by H2OPERF

These actually flew with early omc v4 power, I remeber seeing one at the sun n fun fly in lakeland, it had a 33c cable for tail rotor control lol..

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I wonder how they cooled it

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Originally Posted by perfmarine1

I wonder how they cooled it

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...with the big cooling fan overhead probably...

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Originally Posted by Chaz

That's not a good statement from the resident "Sportmaster Guru" … :D :leaving:

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...sh*t...I have some war stories over the past 2 years with those. "We don't ship bad parts".. But I digress

... https://youtu.be/-IbWu-AMAJo

Watched the video..........Dunno what to say............Sad:nonod:


Definitely poor management decisions in there................

It`s strange that nowhere in that video did they mention anything about the German engineered Ficht fuel injection system. We all know it was the final nail but if you don`t then go to Wikipedia and look it up. At first it made OMC a pile of money but then they said that later on "Rods exploding out of the engine block" put an end to that.

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Originally Posted by FUJIMO

...i don't know...good question.:o evinrude's been buried about four different times throughout their history. they are like those little birthday cake candles that you can't blow out. should we even bother? i don't think you can compare the monstrous amount of really bad financial & marketing & engineering mistakes OMC made over the decades, to BRP's single attempt to bring back the brand. apples and oranges.

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yet all old outboards are OMC's, they must have got something right