Lordy, Wayne, that sounds semi-exciting, at least!! I never heard one rev like that. on the occasions I saw this happen, when an engine started running away the throttle-man whacks it closed and...
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Lordy, Wayne, that sounds semi-exciting, at least!! I never heard one rev like that. on the occasions I saw this happen, when an engine started running away the throttle-man whacks it closed and...
You won't get anything like the full benefit of methanol unless you raise the compression a fair amount. But if you go on to use some percentage of nitro, you don't want all or maybe any of that...
My gosh, look at all the racing they used to do in California!!
I just sold a bunch of old Keller speedometers, but still have one, a red wrinkle 15-45mph screw-on guage, that should be period-correct for your boat, and I'm saving it for anyone who has an antique...
WOW, what a response!! Rumley, Dinghy Bob, thanks so much, what fun projects!! Shows you really can "make a silk purse from a sow's ear" sometimes. I have to study those photos, there's a lot to see...
Thanks, fellas. Hounddog, you may well be right, but the idea is to use an old, cheaply-acquired motor and not carve-up (and maybe screw-up) a perfectly good pleasure boat engine just for occasional...
Anybody here ever race the old 30" two-cylinder Merc? I saw a couple of the four-cylinder 650 version in the F classes, but only one full-race 350 with megaphones for COH. I think a couple of guys...
I see a name that ought to be remembered. About eight pages up, in the "Trading Post," is an ad by Dave Berg, one of the top racers in A Outboard Hydro in those years, offering his rig for sale. ...
There are some more memories of Mr. Willey on this thread:
http://www.boatracingfacts.com/forums/showthread.php?18423-Clock-vs-LaMans-start&p=154185#post154185
Maybe you could insert a note on that thread, with a link to this one . . .
When the Unlimiteds were experimenting with alternatives to the traditional clock start to help out untalented drivers who couldn't make decent clock starts with any regularity (like me in outboards,...
Great fun to read, and I wouldn't interrupt but am curious about the listed author of all the articles, if anyone remembers Tracy Ogden . . . ??
With racingfan1 putting up those fascinating articles from the mid-Fifties boating magazines, a question arises.
I would like to see one of the old guys make a class M through F listing of the...
I remember seeing a captioned photo of the Nickel Eagle in Popular Science magazine, and thinking the boat looked a bit like something Rhoades might have built.
That's an early, but...
I thought that boat was lost. Did you find it recently?
It appears to me that in general the old guys tend to congregate on this site, where Hydroracer.net tends to have more of the younger Stock/Mod racers. Those guys frequently start threads asking...
Rucker's boat seemed so looong, when he showed up with it at Yelm. We used to wonder if Nick Marchetti really had just one design, an A Stock Hydro, and merely added a couple of inches per class to...
1) Mister Rucker, showing the Reg. 10 guys something new about F Hydro, maybe 1967.
2) Jimmy Hallum, assisted by Russ Rotzler, looking for signs of life in a Lucas mag. Mid-'60s.
3) Ron...
Woulda thought that with such a deep vee, the boat would hit pretty easy . . .
Jeff, what IS that boat?!! Looks like a super wake-jumper. Puget Sound has a fair amount of big ship traffic, sending big rollers across the water, wake-jumping heaven, get all the air you dare.
Quite an experiment!! That it didn't work out takes away nothing from the attempt.
How about cutting off the entire projecting part of the water pickup and cap it off, by welding or just drilling and tapping for a thin plate (with gasket or sealant). Then rig a water pickup like I...
Very sorry, Gene.
The Michigan props we raced with fifty years ago would occasionally break. Tacoma prop-man George Lockhart warned me of this when I gave him a 7X14 steel Michigan to rework. Sure enough. George...
Maybe before you start trimming the blades, make some shim sticks of various thicknesses and try a range of motor heights. And angles, maybe first testing with the propshaft about parallel to the...
Wonder if any other old guy recalls seeing anything like this.
Back in my era (Pleistocene), well maybe 1962 or thereabouts, and growing up watching the Unlimiteds throwing their monster...
From 1957:
http://www.boatsport.org/BSV63/p8.jpg (photo of D. Konig with his deflector C triple).
(Article on the new A Konig starts on Page 6 . . . ).
Huh?? Formula for alcohol? What are you saying is bull? I don't get it.
Union Carbide used to make a synthetic 2-stroke oil, which I remember as being called Jackrabbit Oil or something like that, that was compatible with both alcohol and gasoline. An old Reg. 10 racer...
That's the one! Funny, I looked at that site but somehow missed the photo. Thanks, fellas.
I've been trying to find this online, and I know it's out there, but I can't seem to ask the right search question. Maybe somebody here will know where to find it (somebody with Seattle Outboard has...
I'm really not trying to do a political thread here, Paul.
Thanks,
--Smitty
Oh, I know, Wayne, and knew it when I wrote the letters. I actually spent a year in the School of Communications, Editorial Journalism, at the U of Washington when I first got there in the Sixties...
So here's the other letter. As I vaguely recall it, Laura Vescey was sister of a Peter Vescey who was a big New York sports columnist, and I suppose she had to come out here to little old Seattle to...
Writing an angry letter to the editor of the local paper is a fairly pointless exercise, but sometimes it feels good. I wrote two, years ago, to the Sports department of the Seattle...
Paul, the guy in that photo doesn't look like the young Deano that I remember, and that Hal Kelly Jupiter behind him has a "U" region designator (No. Dakota, Wyoming, Montana, Utah), where Dean's...
Who were the big-name hull builders in those days?
Glad to see Howard, who was generally referred to as "Andy" by his Seattle Outboard friends (basically anybody who had ever talked with him!!), be honored in this way. Since this is an engine...
Thanks for the info on relative performance, Steve. Who had the fast deflector Konigs in the country, any names we'd know? FWIW, did you know that Turner made pistons for the deflector B? They...
Well, that's an official with enforcement powers! I don't recall any particular discussion of your dad up here, but I had the impression that Henry Wagner wasn't a favorite.
Thanks, Ron. My Search skills must be pretty poor. I like your sixth-grade drawing, nice detail on that Champ motor!
Are we talking apples and oranges? I was wondering about the competitiveness of the deflector B Konig (two carbs, each feeding one rotary valve) against the other crossflow motors of the day (late...
One of the big names from your part of the world was John Alden, and I believe he was known for, among other things, his alky conversions of Champs. I'd be interested to see you or someone do a...
You've got some cool stuff, Dunlap (some of the rest of you might want to see Bob's photos of his A Anzani restoration on another thread here). Was the welded steel tube towerhousing original to that...
Very "sano" (sanitary) work, as the old hot rodders sometimes said. Who raced the engine, if you know? It wouldn't have been a Northwest guy. Or at least everyone I remember had the megaphones...
Well, since I have the original 20H cranks for the B motors, I'll use them.
Also, the Merc lower units I can build for them only have 1:1 gearsets, so I'll have to get advice on props. In the...
Thanks, all, for clueing me in on this.
And ditto Wayne on taper-pins thru the flange in the old A Konig 'case. I still have the tapered reamer and some pins, somewhere. That A Konig started with...
I never ran a looper myself, but over the years acquired three in boxes, two B's and a C. Seems to me I recall someone saying that you should bolt the back half of the 'case to the block first, then...
Come on, when are the smart tech guys going to weigh in here?
Diaphragm shutter, the carb takes a photo of the driver's big fanny as he drives. Where's my dime?
More seriously, it looks maybe like a real early experiment in cobbling together a sort of...