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This is a wonderful picture of Cesare Scotti at his own place on Lake Como.
The place where Scotti-Craft was built.
R.I.P my racing hero.
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The T*A*R*T team tested at Scotti’s prior to the 1972 Paris race. I had an earlier Molinari that Scotti once drove & Geoff Briggs drove our Sid-Son. We raced the local marathon with our Kenosha production built Johnson Stonger GP’s. After the race we installed our Paris powerheads then began the trek to Paris from Como through Switzerland , Southern France to Paris. After the Paris race we spent time at OMC’s Brugge, Belgium factory:Raceboat shop then traveled through Holland, through East Germany to BerlinQuote:
Originally Posted by lars strom
"Flying" Johnson power in Rouen 24 Hours 1980.
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That looks like the bullet is 5" bellow the pad. Is this part of the rules?
@sharpeye Mike ,
This is a set up for a non stop 24 hour race in really rough water with big waves from commercial traffic.
OMC pocket knife.
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Jeroen GermesQuote:
Originally Posted by lars strom
Top contributor
This one goes behind.
Fast enough for me.https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/e...1/16/1f60a.png
225 HP Johnson V6
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Cri-Cat with a Johnson 235HP V6 2.6 liter sold from my dealership in Stockholm 1981.
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Did the OMC motors suffer from the swivel pin and motor mount issues that plagued many of the inline Mercury motors. I ran a very robust thrust bracket on every boat I owned in order to avoid this.
Well..I did not have any major issues with my production or racing mid sections. Greasing and maintaining was important
Cees van der Velden in his #1 "Aspen Racing Jackets" sponsored Velden/Johnson V8.
Drammen 1982.
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Me in my #8 "Aspen Advertising Jackets" sponsored Burgess/Evinrude V8.
Pittsburgh (Three Rivers Regatta) 1983
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Parker Enduro where V8 power competes against Outboard power.
Outboard power has many, many overall Wins at the Parker Enduro.
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Way cool!
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Kicco Vidoli of Italy in a nasty F1-V8 crash 1985.
His Molinari/Evinrude V8 was flying high in Lyon, France.
Kicco was lucky and walked away from this race.
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#19 Kicco Vidoli
Molinari/Nordica/Evinrude V8
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Lars, checkout Greg’s latest post on his pneumonia thread.
Their is a famous pic of me in an STV I used to have.
Also, Pic was taken at River Ranch as mentioned above.
@Instigator
Wow..very nice picture.:smiletest:
Thanks
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I have a bunch of go fast OMC pix that I never loaded here because you were doing strictly race/tunnel boats.
Happy to post them if you like.
Probably have 20 or more of me and friends.
@Instigator
You are always welcome to post your OMC pictures with info here.
Thanks for asking.
My first hot rod OMC project.
Started as a ‘1986 GT 200, 2.7 liter bridgeport.
Sent the block to Al Stoker (racer here on the board) to bore it to 3.0 liter specs and add finger ports.
I ported and assembled the powerhead.
A buddy of mine cut and shortened the mid section to 16”.
It turned a 22” drag prop 8300 and a 30” cleaver 7500 @ 101 GPS, w/the prop 2” bellow the bottom.
The boat was a Hydrostream Vector which the experts told me would never work w/that pig of a motor on it.
I splattered red paint on the powerhead that I told people was from an in-line Merc that I tied to a tree for my motor to feed on.
I restored/recored it into an open stringer boat and got weight down to 543 lbs.
Once I got it dialed, I was shocked at what a great lake boat it was.
Oh, and never lost a race.
All on pump gas and never had the powerhead apart after assembly.
A fun project and it went everywhere from the Ohio River to the Gulf of America.
Testing the first, 2 banger 45 SS motor to run in the D Stock Hydro class against the 44 cu in Mk 55H’s.
Existing existing Kilo record was 83 MPH.
They were running mid 80’s, in that pic, first time out.
It was APBA (Merc) relegated to the OPC division so it wouldn’t destroy the 55 H’s.
They did allow it in the Mod class where it whipped all comers!
A great pic of a 3 point hydro at perfect ride attitude.
My friend and hero, Gordon Montague of Monty Racing testing his buddy Bobby Pazos Sr’s boat in one of the ditches in Fla.
Gordon built the motor.
Reported to be at 130 ish and this was in the 80’s.
Love that shot!
An STV I used to have, as shot from a helicopter while playing in the Intracoastal in Fla.
Bought it new from a dealer who had a box stock, ‘94 225 on it.
That motor was a freak!
Would turn a 29” SRX prop 7200 @ 99 MPH, GPS!
On pump gas, w/the VRO intact!
I abused that motor and couldn’t blow it up!
I learned how to tune on that motor.
I was shocked at the improvement I got from jetting it (lean) to drag race.
I towed it to a rally in Shreveport La from Cols Oh and shocked a bunch of Merc owners in drag racing.
I started experimenting w/it while building my last serious OMC hot rod project.
Basically, what would it take to blow it up!
I pulled the heads, stuffed the cylinders w/paper towels, shoved a shop vac in the exhaust, ported it and bolted it back together!
Weird thing was, no matter what I do it wouldn’t turn over the 7200 it turned stock.
One time while testing, I removed the powerpack (for the first time ever) and was shocked to see the wires for the rev limiter still connected!
Always assumed they were already unplugged as the stock limit was 6700!
Backed it in and turned my test wheel 8300!
Us OMC guys all knew of this rig for how fast it was stock.
When I bought it, a buddy offered to buy me a set of head gaskets if I pulled the heads to measure the ports as he swore it had to be a Second Effort motor!
A pic of me in the same boat, playing w/the trim buttons.
People think I was bouncing the boat at slow speeds to get that shot.
I was not.
That was w/the stock motor at 95 MPH!
The first of two, 24’ twin OB Sonics that I owned and restored.
Put two new ‘99 250 Ocean Pros on that one and it ran 80 and accelerated like a dragster!
Never lost race and the IO guys in my area hated that boat!
They way it carried the bow intimidated them.
That boat also went everywhere.
My second 24’ Sonic.
Restored and repowered w/twin 250 Ocean Pros.
That is my beautiful wife Cheryl on the boat in the Keys.
We spent days on the boat down there celebrating that projects completion.
Our current “weekender”.
Started life as a ‘1987 25’ Checkmate Convincor w/a single 454 and Bravo drive.
I bought it w/a blown motor and converted it to twin OBs.
I drove from Ohio to Fla to get the motors.
One was a 225, other was a 200 that I converted to 225.
25” motors I converted to 20’s.
The engine bracket is fiberglass that I built.
Always wanted one and think has the best lines of a boat that size/style.
APBA race sanctions were very confusing to understand when OPC and Stock Outboard categories were listed. SST45 and 45SS. When I read the hull rules for each it appeared to say that hydros and tunnels could run in either category? When safety cockpits were mandated for SST45 the mix kind of ended?Quote:
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My current project (and end of my pix).
’1985 (first yr) recreational V-8 that I am modifying to race in the Vintage class.
As of now, powerhead is all stock and never been apart.
Its 3.6 liters that I will bore to 4.0 liters, add finger ports and then port it.
It is a combination of several motors to get what I wanted.
The 20” mid was new/old stock that was never used.
I converted the ancient, slow trim and clamp to modern Fast Track.
The gear case started as a stock V-6 case that I modded.
I through bolted the carrier for added strength, nose cone, and added a section of a Merc Sportmaster styled skeg for better control.
Added a wing plate and solid tilt pin to run hydraulic, side steering.
Also has near impossible to find, Land and Sea velocity stacks and a Second Effort lightweight cowling.
Also have a set of also very, very rare, dual plug Second Effort heads, currently out for repair.
Sorry for the disoriented pix Lars.
Doing this from my phone, they are correct there and don’t know how to correct them.
I never understood them either.
I was at the Stick Outboard Nationals in Dayton, Ohio when they released that motor.
They did an exhibition race with three boats.
One Hydro and two tunnels.
They started together and the hydro had 1/2 of a lap lead at end of lap one!
One the coolest things I ever saw!
Never saw one on a hydro again until they started running them in Mod.
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Turning this nice picture right.:cheers:
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the Johnson STINGER High Performance Engine.
April 1970
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Wow! I've never seen this OMC racing handout before. Was the mid and gearcase totally new or an adaptation from the GT115?
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Here you can see..
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