The Sinking Of The OutBoard Marine Corporation -

**Chaz** · 04-28-2020, 11:48 AM

Originally Posted by H2OPERF

Might fly with some borrowed alien antigravity help from area 51 ...

I think they helped with the Morse 33c rotor mast …

The non-retractable landing gear / water brake ..

I do like the twin rubber band powered tail rotors …

And of course, the interference fit between the bubble and rotor .. you only have to open it once while the rotor is still spinning .. to know it was a bad idea …

**H2OPERF** · 04-28-2020, 01:13 PM

These actually flew with early omc v4 power, I remeber seeing one at the sun n fun fly in lakeland, it had a 33c cable for tail rotor control lol..

**oldschoolltv** · 04-28-2020, 02:08 PM

There were quite a few gyro copters with omc v4 back in the late 70’s as well.

**FUJIMO** · 07-02-2020, 02:44 PM

https://youtu.be/9bgsrJNMouE ...wankel effort...

**Mark Poole ModVP** · 07-02-2020, 05:55 PM

Is there going to be a 'sinking of BRP Evinrude' thread?

**FUJIMO** · 07-02-2020, 07:05 PM

Originally Posted by Mark Poole ModVP

Is there going to be a 'sinking of BRP Evinrude' thread?

...i don't know...good question.

evinrude's been buried about four different times throughout their history. they are like those little birthday cake candles that you can't blow out. should we even bother? i don't think you can compare the monstrous amount of really bad financial & marketing & engineering mistakes OMC made over the decades, to BRP's single attempt to bring back the brand. apples and oranges.

**Capt.Insane-o** · 07-02-2020, 10:44 PM

I F***ing hate changing oil.

**Chaz** · 07-04-2020, 10:27 AM

Originally Posted by Capt.Insane-o

I F***ing hate changing oil.

That's not a good statement from the resident "Sportmaster Guru" …

**perfmarine1** · 07-06-2020, 07:55 AM

Originally Posted by H2OPERF

These actually flew with early omc v4 power, I remeber seeing one at the sun n fun fly in lakeland, it had a 33c cable for tail rotor control lol..

I wonder how they cooled it

**FUJIMO** · 07-06-2020, 08:01 AM

Originally Posted by perfmarine1

I wonder how they cooled it

...with the big cooling fan overhead probably...

**Capt.Insane-o** · 07-06-2020, 10:05 PM

Originally Posted by Chaz

That's not a good statement from the resident "Sportmaster Guru" …

...sh*t...I have some war stories over the past 2 years with those. "We don't ship bad parts".. But I digress

**FUJIMO** · 10-28-2020, 09:48 AM

... https://youtu.be/-IbWu-AMAJo

**keefallan** · 10-28-2020, 03:11 PM

Watched the video..........Dunno what to say............Sad

Definitely poor management decisions in there................

**Da Bull** · 10-30-2020, 05:12 AM

It`s strange that nowhere in that video did they mention anything about the German engineered Ficht fuel injection system. We all know it was the final nail but if you don`t then go to Wikipedia and look it up. At first it made OMC a pile of money but then they said that later on "Rods exploding out of the engine block" put an end to that.

**powerabout** · 10-30-2020, 10:04 AM

Originally Posted by FUJIMO

...i don't know...good question.

evinrude's been buried about four different times throughout their history. they are like those little birthday cake candles that you can't blow out. should we even bother? i don't think you can compare the monstrous amount of really bad financial & marketing & engineering mistakes OMC made over the decades, to BRP's single attempt to bring back the brand. apples and oranges.

yet all old outboards are OMC's, they must have got something right