The unmistakeable sound of a 6 banger
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Originally Posted by
Bill Van Steenwyk
What Wayne mentioned in his post about the awesome sound of a Looper 6 is what I believe to be one of the main reasons for the "mystique" that surrounds this engine. I remember going to DePue in the late 60's and AT LEAST 5 or more miles away, probably 10, you could hear that "wail" when one was running. There has never been anything like that sound, before or since.
I never ran F Hydro, but I can only imagine what it must have been like to being overtaken by one of those monsters. If by luck you got out front of one on the start, you knew they were probably going to pull up on your rear on one straight- a -way or another, and to hear that sound coming up behind you must have been something. Probably best described as "BE AFRAID, BE VERY AFRAID".
I sure hope somebody finally gets that recording of one on BRF. The site will never be completely perfect till that happens.
Bill -- not sure if we know each other, but likely our paths have likely crossed, as Gene East would attest to.
Re: An open stack merc 6 banger... I can not tell you how many times that is how I found my way to the race course at DePue as I drove from Macomb. For more than "a couple of years" I pulled V-7 to DePue behind a green Pontiac Station Wagon; prior to that I was usually sleeping in the back of the blue Chrysler "box" station wagon.
From 1960 "something", until 1975 I witness many Ross Gibson/Bill Collins "blow ups"... due to a "too hot" fuel mixture... but Gene East, Frank Volker, Jack Kugler, Tim Chance, Sam Hemp will say "it sure enough is so"
Like everyone else in this "thread" I just want to hear an open stack 6 banger merc one more time...
Gentlemen... you all bring something to this "table"... now, find the enging and let's "start the engine", please.
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No sound like them, for sure!
Everything said about the Flathead 6 and just how impressive it looks and there is no sound like it is expressing the true nature of it racing. In their heydays the class F Flathead 4s and 6s dueling and sounds burned into onlookers memories.
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My favorite hydro with a beauty of a merc
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Originally Posted by
John Taylor
Everything said about the Flathead 6 and just how impressive it looks and there is no sound like it is expressing the true nature of it racing. In their heydays the class F Flathead 4s and 6s dueling and sounds burned into onlookers memories.
John, this is one of my favorites.
Picture - Cabover hydro & 6 banger Quincy-Merc Alky F
Back in the earlier 1960s and then the later 1960s that kind of class F Alky cabover hydro saw both the Quincy padded block 6 cylinder Alky Deflector engines and then later you would see Flathead 4s and 6s on them by the mid and later 1960s. From a new racer, me with his stock racing Merc KG9 and Ogier C-D stock hydro those Alky monsters were pretty overwhelming.
Karen is totally right that BRF needs a video and sound entry to make the BRF section on these more complete and awesome!
Almost every Quincy Flathead or Quincy-Merc padded block deflector I have restored has been fired up, tuned and in some cases run the once on Wayne Walgrave's class F 1971 Chaparral I have here but in the excitement no one even thought to have a video/sound camera!