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07-17-2021, 10:25 AM #4216000 RPM
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Your right, it's been posted many times. The engines were rebuilt after every outing. It was Charlie Strang's motto; race it, break it, rebuild it, race it again. In addition, we were making changes, upgrade, additional HP continually. There were only 6 black exhaust manifold ever made, so the most at any one time would have been 6. Most of the time we had 4 ready to race with 1 spare powerhead. My memory is shot, but I recall a running powerhead weighed 197 # and a complete assembly was 250/275 #.
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07-17-2021, 12:17 PM #422I'd rather be competitive w/junk I built in my garage than win w/stuff I bought.
I refuse to allow common sense to interfere w/my boat buying decisions.
Checkmate 16' 140 Johnson
Hydrostream 17' Vector FrankenRude I
Laser 480 (?) 21' w/GT 200
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07-18-2021, 04:26 AM #423Junior Member
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07-18-2021, 05:24 AM #424Junior Member
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07-18-2021, 08:28 AM #4256000 RPM
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07-18-2021, 09:44 AM #4266000 RPM
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Unfortunately I think you are correct. The 2 Bob Zips has he guards with his life as if the came from King Tuts tomb. He has told me he was going to give them to some museum when he passes. Besides, only 1 has a gear case. The 2 or 3 BRP has, they have no interest in running and have supposedly sent them to their museum in Quebec to sit next to their locomotive. I don't know if Seaway's machine is complete or runnable. I remember someone saying way back that this was the unit on display downstairs of Waukegan Engineering and it was locked up. Without looking at the motor, I can only speculate what might be wrong and what it would take to fix it.
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07-18-2021, 08:27 PM #427Screaming And Flying!
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07-19-2021, 05:01 AM #430Screaming And Flying!
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07-19-2021, 12:33 PM #4316000 RPM
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07-19-2021, 12:46 PM #432
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Yes, its a great picture. I think Jimbo is also waving at Jackie Wilson..
PS. This ScottiCraft does not have a full deck tunnel.
You can clearly see that.
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07-19-2021, 02:03 PM #4336000 RPM
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Lars: At Parker, Jimbo's boat had slots in the front. You can get a good view of the slot at the very beginning of the Miami video. Posey's boat was a full front. The boat we used for testing in Fl. was Jimbo's black & white Scotti that was a full front. If I remember Jimbo said it was narrow, not as wide as other Scotti's. Rick McKinley blew it over and destroyed it latter on. This was Posey's boat for parker. The pickle fork boats didn't come till '74 Paris. You posted Posey's Paris boat and this is Wood's Paris Boat-both pickle forks.
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Outboard Marine Corporation 4 Rotor: The Real Story - YouTube
A video about the OMC rotaries
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