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04-01-2023, 06:30 PM #10966
Cathy McConnell
This is the Big Goat Boat before it got the Zebra paint job. It is the only boat that Jimbo’s knows off that ran the Strangler V4, the Super Strangler V4, the Rotary, the 2L V6, and the CCC V6.
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04-02-2023, 06:32 AM #10967
Cougar Picklefork
The Cougar boat that Beard ran at Windemere was a factory owned picklefork outfit that same boat also ran a 2.0 litre v6 crossflow engine in the 1975 Paris 6hr race and ran a 2.0 litre OMC V6 LOOPER in the 1976 Paris 6 hr race.If the Scotti boats were well overpowered we would have seen the drivers back off and Beard would have been way out in front i think the boats at Windemere were running around 110 mph.Just my opinion on a very interesting topic.I would agree to your try a couple of props before a race but that applied at all times even in many later years.
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04-02-2023, 09:59 AM #109686000 RPM
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Time For A Book?
RJ - Thankyou for the insights on the rotary's racing history. Who was Rick McKinley? I haven't seen that name before? Do you have any historical memories on who and why these races were chosen? I get the feeling most of this info has faded into the past now that Jack Leek and Charlie Strang are no longer living. Aside from this thread and one other on S&F website, no one has gone to the trouble of documenting the entire story of OMC like Jeff Ettinger did with Mercury (Iron Fist). Maybe I've missed a couple of books out there, but if they are published, they sure didn't cover OMC's demise or global operations, or even how the sales catalogs were created and published (graphics, photo shoots, text, etc)? Or how about the "bring home a motor for the weekend" OMC employee event? Surely an event that Mercury didn't do?
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04-02-2023, 12:25 PM #109696000 RPM
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OMC let engineering employees borrow an engine for the entire boating season, We could even bring it in and get help rigging it. Nice perk. The only person that is left to wright a book is Jim Newstrom, but he doesn't want to. I understand Ron Hill has put out a book and Jimbo is working on one. Rick McKinley was a engineering tech at OMC he drove race boat with McCune if I remember right. He drove a rotary at Galveston and barrel rolled it after the race waiting for the trailer. I guess he really got sideways on a big roller. He and Bobby Witt never dove a rotary again. Leek and Strang chose what races we took the rotary too. I believe choices were based on how to best humiliate Mercury. Mercury refused to show up at Galveston and put out the word any Merc driver that did would cease getting any factory support. Provo was a test for Merc to see how really fast the rotaries were. They brought all the factory drivers with single, twins and triples along with their new KT with the 6+l V-8. After Provo, it was apparent Merc didn't have anything at the time that could beat the rotary and succeeded in getting it banned just about anywhere.
Last edited by Rotary John; 04-02-2023 at 12:27 PM.
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04-02-2023, 03:56 PM #10970
Beautiful picture of Jimbo in his #191 Molinari powered by a 3 liter Evinrude CCC looper V6 with fuel injection.
Thanks Troy Boettle.
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04-02-2023, 04:29 PM #10971
Last edited by lars strom; 04-02-2023 at 04:33 PM.
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04-02-2023, 07:15 PM #109726000 RPM
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Lecture Tour
Last edited by WaterZebra; 04-02-2023 at 07:18 PM.
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04-02-2023, 08:58 PM #10973
Ken Stevenson in his #201 Velden racing powered by Johnson V6 RS
Thanks Troy Boettle.
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04-03-2023, 10:18 AM #10974
#112 Wilfried Weiland of Austria in his UIM SE class Schulze/Johnson 60 in Berlin 6 Hours 1971.
Before and after..!!..Yes he was OK.
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04-04-2023, 10:33 AM #10975
A UIM SE class Clerici/Johnson is running the Pavia to Venice race in Italy 1986.
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04-04-2023, 01:39 PM #10976
A UIM SE class Burgess/Johnson is running the Pavia to Venice race in Italy 1987.
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04-04-2023, 03:39 PM #109776000 RPM
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04-04-2023, 08:36 PM #10978
This is me in the #1 UIM OE-F3 class Sjoberg/Evinrude CC with pressed in steel sleeves 1980
Very powerful engine and we used Methanol. Later 1980 Sture & me drove this boat to victory in world famous Paris 6 hours.
My first Paris victory out of three.
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04-05-2023, 09:46 AM #109796000 RPM
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OMC Race Product Production
RJ - How did OMC manage machining and assembly of the V4 and V6 race engine programs? Were they done in a separate facility and site? Mercury would dedicate one 5 day work week for production of the original Twister inline. I don't know what they did with their V6 program.
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04-05-2023, 12:24 PM #10980
I don't have the correct answer but all my race engines and parts OMC shipped directly to me in Europe was built at Engineering.
A separate building if I remember correct.
My first visit to OMC, Waukegan was in the late seventies.Last edited by lars strom; 04-05-2023 at 12:26 PM.
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