Facts about Evinrude/Johnson racing outboards made my OMC

[lars strom]

Very Cool..Paris 6 Hours 1974. The two OMC Rotaries
#02 & 03.

[lars strom]

Paris 1974

Color pictures of the 02 ScottiCraft/Johnson Rotary after the crash with the concrete turning buoy.

[lars strom]

Photo shows a full deck tunnel. Did he have a picklefork design in work when he died?

The boat Scotti crashed in Paris 1974 was a picklefork.

Scotti's #7 winning boat in Bristol early 1974.
Powered by a Evinrude V6 2 liter cross-flow Super Strangler.

[John Schubert]

Photo shows a full deck tunnel. Did he have a picklefork design in work when he died?

Yup & built a couple which did run in the US. Tim Briggs ran one at St Lois with a V-6 cross flow, picture was on here somewhere.

[Rotary John]

Yup & built a couple which did run in the US. Tim Briggs ran one at St Lois with a V-6 cross flow, picture was on here somewhere.

Have you heard anything about Bob Zipps collection>

[Onetime]

Curious.
With rotaries in general and their known thirst for fuel. Was that an issue with the boats? Did they need a larger fuel tank?
Or compared to a two stroke the fuel consumption wasn’t that much different.

[John Schubert]

Have you heard anything about Bob Zipps collection>

I’ll try to find out.

[Rotary John]

Curious.
With rotaries in general and their known thirst for fuel. Was that an issue with the boats? Did they need a larger fuel tank?
Or compared to a two stroke the fuel consumption wasn’t that much different.

The fuel tanks in the boats were the same as the V-4's and V-6's. You must remember, fuel consumption is related to HP (among other things). Thus a 300 HP rotary would use more fuel that a 175HP V-4 if they had the same efficiency. However the rotary race engine was twice as fuel efficient as the V-4/6 when measured as BSFC; .68/.75 for a 2-stroke vs .35/38 for the rotary lbs. of fuel per HP- Hr.

[Rotary John]

I’ll try to find out.

PS: I got in touch with Dennis Evinrude.

[John Schubert]

PS: I got in touch with Dennis Evinrude.

The president of AOMCI who lives in the area where Bob lived says the family has yet to decide what to do with the collection. Bob had close AOMCI members friends, but being so many miles away, not sure who. If I hear or reach out again, I’ll let you know. If you would like to share your conversation with Dennis, but not on this thread, my email is [email protected].

[lars strom]

#14 Jimbo McConnell in his pickle fork ScottiCraft/Evinrude V6 Super Strangler 2 liter.
Bristol, UK 1974