Facts about Evinrude/Johnson racing outboards made my OMC

**Mark Poole ModVP** · 12-11-2017, 11:32 AM

The driver of the orange 28 is not in a good place!

**lars strom** · 12-11-2017, 12:54 PM

Originally Posted by Mark Poole ModVP

The driver of the orange 28 is not in a good place!

HeeHee no but I think I have the story somewhere.
Let me do some digging.

**WaterZebra** · 12-11-2017, 04:34 PM

Originally Posted by lars strom

I got all the info from Ted Zahorski
He was part of the Yamaha team developing racing V-6 powerheads, midsections and gearcases.
Ron Anderson also told me the same thing at an Old Farts Meeting in Naples a few years ago.
Yamaha copied a Merc racing gearcase but run in to some gear problems after a few hours running them.

I'm not buying this gearcase story for 1 minute..........have been hearing this gearcase rumor for 25 years. Show me actual pictures of their pattern and core foundry tooling and an actual rough sand casting and then I'll believe it.

**lars strom** · 12-11-2017, 06:43 PM

Originally Posted by Mark Poole ModVP

The driver of the orange 28 is not in a good place!

Hee, no and its #28 Cappelletti of Italy swiming in the pit turn..!!

**powerabout** · 12-11-2017, 07:40 PM

NSU Marine engine, WOW
I learn something new everyday

**lars strom** · 12-11-2017, 08:21 PM

Well..NSU Rotary Marine engine powerabout..

..and it run for 6 hours and won the Paris 2 liter inboard class 1970..!!

**lars strom** · 12-12-2017, 08:25 AM

Even the perfect Evinrude 75 Hustler breaks down sometimes. This is me trying to lift the engine cowling on the way back to the pit. (been towed) I was lucky, it was the gearcase, (not powerhead) changed the gearcase during the heat break and got back racing.

**lars strom** · 12-12-2017, 06:59 PM

John Hill's son Steve raced F3 and I think he won the World Title one year.

**Instigator** · 12-13-2017, 12:31 AM

Pretty sure that's a Wayne Taylor mid.
Same as the latest OMC F-1 effort.

My old friend Ray Neudecker told me he built some powerhead for the Worthy funded effort.

I remember the Yammi F-1 effort.
From what I saw they were impressive and loved seeing the added competition.
I hate a single brand class.

They probably are OMC gear cases. They stole everything else from OMC.
I remember patent law suit stories during their orig O/B launch.
Rumor was there 3 banger and V-6 heads would bolt right up to an OMC.

Remember too, in the auto industry the Japanese are notorious for copying our ideas/designs then mastering the mass production of them.
When I was in the biz there were stories of them getting tours of competitors plants and one of them was always quiet and to himself but was an engineer with a photographic memory.

Originally Posted by lars strom

One hundred percent Yamaha built V-6 race engines. (Powerhead, mid section and gearcase)
Pictures from Lars Strom's file.

**Instigator** · 12-13-2017, 12:35 AM

That's bad ass!

Thank you Ron Anderson.

Originally Posted by lars strom

Very unique and extremely cool pictures.
Thank you very much Ray Anderson.
(From Svera.se Aug. 7 2016)

http://svera.se/blogg/yamaha-f1-v-6-...om-late-1980s/

**powerabout** · 12-13-2017, 03:06 AM

gear box and clamp looks Merc, mid looks unique

**lars strom** · 12-13-2017, 09:32 AM

Bill Marshall in his F-3 Burgess/Johnson. Not sure what year.

**lars strom** · 12-13-2017, 10:06 AM

#12 Francois Salabert in Nottingham 1981.
He was racing in the OZ F1-V8 class with a V6 waiting for his new V8.
Velden/JPS/Johnson V6 2.6 Liter cross-flow

**lars strom** · 12-13-2017, 12:14 PM

In the first picture you can see a few OZ-V8 boats mixed with OZ class V6 powered boats.
#19 is Rick Frost, #8 Arthur Mostert. Not sure about the #2 boat.
My Burgess/AKAI F3 boat is also parked there.

**lars strom** · 12-13-2017, 12:53 PM

Unprecedented demand causes Yamaha to delay engine shipments.

In light of “unprecedented demand,” Yamaha Motor Corp. is asking its counterparts in Japan to focus on reallocating products to the United States so the company can fill orders.
Specifically, Yamaha said that due to “a perfect storm of challenges” it is unable to meet demand for the 2.8-liter, 4.2-liter V6 and 5.3-liter V8 outboards — as well as some Yamaha rigging items — in the time frame the company had originally hoped, in part because its manufacturing operations were in transition.
“It is unprecedented demand, and we simply cannot meet the demands for shipping our product,” Martin Peters, Yamaha Marine Group communications and government relations senior manager, told Trade Only Today. “We are doing our best.”
Yamaha Marine Group president Ben Speciale sent letters to dealers and OEMs acknowledging it was unable to meet its target ship dates and apologizing for delays.
“We are experiencing the perfect storm of challenges for supplying outboards at this higher demand,” said the letter to dealers, which Peters sent to Trade Only. “The marketplace has many years of pent-up demand for larger boats and the outboard motors that power them. As the economy and mood have improved this year, demand for our premium products increased more than we had anticipated.
“This increase in demand has occurred while our manufacturing operations are in transition. The transition was designed to accommodate new products and increased longer-term demand.”
Understanding that its availability to promise dates is “less than stable,” Yamaha is bringing down target ship dates to regain stability. “We will do everything we can to bring the system back up by Dec. 15,” Speciale wrote, adding in bold: “We will continue to ship product during this time.”
https://www.tradeonlytoday.com/tech/...gine-shipments