I don't know either Danny, when a D.F. Jenkins V-4 would outrun everything Mercury could build up until the V-6.
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I don't know either Danny, when a D.F. Jenkins V-4 would outrun everything Mercury could build up until the V-6.
Well..I think both Mercury and OMC did trix to get an advantage over the years.
Here is one example..I was in London at this F1-V8 race 1984..
http://www.boatracingfacts.com/forum...ad.php?t=10387
The real story about the 1984 F1-OZ race Victoria Docks, London.
Billy Seebold USA was racing a Seebold with the big bore Merc T-4. Johny Sanders USA driving a Burgess boat with the Wizard..2 X Merc 2 liter power heads on one mid section.
Click below for the rest of the story..and find out who won the race.
http://svera.se/blogg/f1-v8/the-real...-docks-london/
After several days of reading this intire thread i have come away with much learned info as well as reading about my hero`s. On a funny note, It seems comical that after Merc used their power to ban the OMC rotory race motors from compitition in the mid 70`s they themselves used this same ploy to ban the Merc T-4 in the 80`s.
Thanks to all for posting this information of our boat racing history and as has been mentioned bedore, I wish somebody would surface with an old vid with the OMC rotory sound. That would be cool.
DB
Here is a link to a You Tube video about OMC's rotary engines. Its primarily about the snowmobile, but it also has the only known footage of the 4 rotor race engine in action. The sound is dubbed in and is not real.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3sr-aSoDAA
Lars Strom via SVERA.se
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OMC and the Rotary outboard took the overall win in Windermere 1973
To bad I did not go the Windermere 1973.. but this is fun reading.
svera.se
OMC and the Rotary outboard took the overall win in Windermere 1973
Click below for the correct link with lots of interesting reading/pictures.
http://svera.se/blogg/omc-and-the-ro...ndermere-1973/
Round two to the rotaries – first major win for OMC at Galveston Classic 1973
Very good reading with pictures. Powerboat Magazine July 1973. Click link below.
http://svera.se/blogg/round-two-to-t...-classic-1973/
Tom Posey checking the powerful Johnson rotary.