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    OMC boats

    Quote Originally Posted by swamppanther View Post
    I was looking for photos of the racing boats OMC had built for the X115 & GT115 possibly a Shulze tunnel that Jimbo drove.Any help would be appreciated! I will look at BRF for them.
    Here's one that Ted May ran at Parker in 69, a McDonald.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ronster43 View Post
    Glad to hear you're going to OFF, Gene. Jeff and Sally Titus are planning to attend and I know they would like to see you. Its been too long!
    Hi Ron---Seeing Sally and Jeff would make the trip worthwhile!!! 28 years?
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    Quote Originally Posted by mark benson View Post
    There's video footage of X-115's & GT-115's at the Gold Coast 225 Marathon, held at Miami Marine Stadium in early 1969, at 1:37-2:45 of Video- "Title Drive" on this page.I believe this to be the last race OMC used the X-115's & GT-115s before Charlie Strang unleashed the new Stranglers & Stingers on Mercury!
    This poster is a press release from OMC about that race.
    I believe these "heavily prototyped" X115 and GT115 engines were internally referred to as OSS motors. The had crudely fabbed external exhaust tuners, flex flywheels, 1968 "under the flywheel" battery CD ignition, but still had the old 4 Bbl inline carb.
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    Picture of a boat built for the GT and X115

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    Quote Originally Posted by swamppanther View Post
    I was looking for photos of the racing boats OMC had built for the X115 & GT115 possibly a Shulze tunnel that Jimbo drove.Any help would be appreciated! I will look at BRF for them.
    Here's one, maybe a Wilbur McDonald hull? I know Rich McKinley is in the cockpit, Ray Nydahl at the the front, and Bruce Summers fiddling with the twin X115s. Bruce gave me the original picture many years ago and which I still have.

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    Quote Originally Posted by vintage v4 View Post
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    Here's one, maybe a Wilbur McDonald hull? I know Rich McKinley is in the cockpit, Ray Nydahl at the the front, and Bruce Summers fiddling with the twin X115s. Bruce gave me the original picture many years ago and which I still have.
    I think it's a Schultz...later on,
    ending up in Canada OMC with Spencer Dunn driving it.

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    I think the first guess was correct. I believe this is a Wilbur McDonald boat

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    Quote Originally Posted by Zonkercraft View Post
    I think it's a Schultz...later on,
    ending up in Canada OMC with Spencer Dunn driving it.
    Here are some pictures of Spencer Dunn's Shultze that he ran in 1970/1971;Click image for larger version. 

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    Quote Originally Posted by peterse90 View Post
    Here are some pictures of Spencer Dunn's Shultze that he ran in 1970/1971;Click image for larger version. 

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    These are just thumb nail pics.......Can you upload these so that they open when you click on them?
    Looks like Jeff might be correct but it's kind of hard to see with the tiny images.

    Another question, does anyone have a picture of the rear of the Johnson Stinger (KC13R) Cover???
    The sundry Johnson 1970 115 cover doesn't fit over the exhaust bubble because it comes to a 'V' in the back.
    I can't remember how they did that.
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    Not sure if I have Any other close up, this was one I my favorites of my dads boats.
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    Quote Originally Posted by M75 View Post
    Here's a nice set of 115's from the day... on George Linder's Eltro. Just thought I would share. Henry

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    I've got a nice G3 going together if anyone would like to try their 115 "rude motors" & props.
    Wriggleys gum makes me think of boating, "Double your engines, Double your fun"



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    Ya on the wrong side of the country......look for local help......Ron Hill may know sommm still Around.

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    Scribed-----Exellent!
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    Quote Originally Posted by seahorse View Post

    Another thing about those motors were the exhaust ports. Originally the 2 middle ports were squared off and the 2 outer ones left round. The factory then squared all 4 ports for some of their special drivers which made the motors run a bit stronger. If I remember correctly there was an exchange with Jack Leek and the engine inspectors at one race. When questioned why some engines only had 2 squared ports and others had four square ports, Jack replied with a straight face to the official , "Different vendors", he said.
    That is interesting and funny.... Looking at the original prints for the exhaust ports and comparing to my NOS GT115 block, I can see they do not match; Tighter radii and outer ports squaredClick image for larger version. 

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    The one year that I ran in Hey super strangler on my old Al Martin pickle fork. We had him home doubt the entire two center ports into one large port and use special Wiseco pistons and rings in the V4 seems like we picked up 10 to 12 hp been about an hour top end it was around 100 maybe one oh one with a one to one gear case Still was not enough power for the boat so when The T3 Mercury‘s came out I made the switch back to mercury. Top and was about the same maybe 101102 but the acceleration with the extra cubic inch was massive that’s 99.6 versus the 122 point some thing for the T3

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