I saw the looper ad a couple of years ago...it caught my attention because its sitting on the back of one of our 15' Wildcats that my dad designed and we built from 1967 thru 1983.Quote:
Originally Posted by Instigator
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I saw the looper ad a couple of years ago...it caught my attention because its sitting on the back of one of our 15' Wildcats that my dad designed and we built from 1967 thru 1983.Quote:
Originally Posted by Instigator
Very cool!
I thought it looked like the back of a Switzer.
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Originally Posted by DanUmbarger
Switzers have a completely different look but here's a pic of a local Wildcat with a cool V4 Johnson on the back. Although that would be a cool motor for a 15' Wildcat tunnel im restoring i have a Johnson GT115 that I'm sticking on it.Attachment 538272Quote:
Originally Posted by Instigator
Mouse from OMC to the right working on the powerful F1-V8
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How were the F1 V8s assembled? Did one technician specialize in long block assembly? Somebody else for fuel systems and electricals? Or did the technicians do everything for one engine at a time?Quote:
Originally Posted by lars strom
How did OMC acquire certification for this product to be sold? How did the design address separation between the engine exhaust and air compressor intake?Quote:
Originally Posted by lars strom
@WaterZebra
Lots of great questions but I don't have the correct answers and hat to guess.
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For sure this is a Velocity with a production Evinrude 300XP V8 looper.
https://www.screamandfly.com/attachm...1&d=1733122604
When I was there in the '70's, Ward Cox was the gearcase specialist and that's pretty much all he did. Ziggy and Mouse did most of the porting work,, but the build up was shared with all of the team on who was available basis. Whitey Harris was the dyno man, but wasn't actually part of the race team. How the team progressed in the late '70's and '80's, I don't know. Jim Nerstrom is the expert then.Quote:
Originally Posted by WaterZebra
pretty much how I remembered it during the V-4 days, but each tech might have done their own porting & assembly & it always was a big deal which pulled the most HP on the dyno. Leek would assign motors to which drivers according to the dyno results. Yup, Jimbo got the best. Other techs were Ken Soller, Mike Kukla who after a snowmobile accident developed Lukemia, them Mike Gwaltney joined the team. In the Boat shop it was Bob “goat” Nagode, John Harvat & Jimbo. In the prop shop lead by Don Heinrich it was Harold Naus & John GibbsQuote:
Originally Posted by Rotary John
One more; Ted Wright. Worked on the rotary race engine. Also died of cancer. Tragic story. He had brought his wife alone to Europe with a 3 week fare. Scotti was killed the first week and he was told to go home. They couldn't afford the additional fare for his wife so they hung around Paris unknown to others for the remainder of the 3 weeks. Also unknown, he was extremely sick and by the time he got home the cancer was too far along to save him. He died shortly after coming home.Quote:
Originally Posted by John Schubert
I don't know about the 2-stroke motor assignments but Jack Leek never saw the dyno sheets of the rotaries. Besides that, I don't recall ever seeing more that 5 HP difference for any of them for any given race, 5 out of 270/280 prop shaft HP didn't make much difference when they were running on 100HP V-4 boats.
Wow @Rotary John ,
Very sad story about Ted Wright. I probably met him in Paris 1974.
Still remember how upset everybody in the OMC team was when Scotti died in the tragic accident.
I have pictures of Scotti laying stuck in the fence at the seawall and his boat floating upside down next to him.
Terrible pictures I refuse to use.
(Got it from a French friend)
I can remember some enjoyable times with Ward Cox at the PARIS 6hr race on a few occasions i think the Paris race was the only one he attended that i know of he always enjoyed himself with the racing crowd he was a very quiet person but new how to enjoy himself the only thing that i remember well was he told me he had a over a 1hr commute to work every morning to the OMC factory.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rotary John
I can remember a post by Ron Hill about Scotti`s visit to the race at Havasu the race he went on to win and Ron was entertaining the Italian driver he took him to lunch a few times and Scotti had a small carry case with him and Ron asked why does the case go everywhere with you his answer was its got my props in it.Quote:
Originally Posted by lars strom
I can understand that. We all were always protective of our best propellers and also trying to find one better. I only had 2 really good props the whole time I raced.
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