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Obviously, the result can be no more accurate than the input GIGO
With 100% efficiency, speed would be 32.396 mph. You can compote your own efficiency by comparing to actual speed.
This thread is named Los Angeles Speedboat Assn LOGO.. No words about the Logo. So I'll add a few words. I don't know when the LASA got started, but it was well before WWII. Its logo was a racy...
You number them, I'll name them
Well, it all started when nobody wanted to pay the price for stock American peppers. so Japanese imports got involved. Nobody said they weren't of highest quality, readily available, and cheap, but...
Ron, why are you having the annual dues sent to you? I am the duly elected treasurer. The Dues should go to me at National Pepper Assn., PO Box 4191, Seal Beach, CA 90740.
Who's handling the Tee...
When Ron started BRF, he wanted to have a list of "Who's Who in Boat Racing," I suggested he also need a list "Gentlemen Boat Racers". I had Bud Wiget in mind when I made the suggestion. Bud was a...
I hope all who attended enjoy the reunion as much as I did in 2007. Enjoy, tell stories, lie, drink beer, and eat corn. Chew it well.
Russ Hill
Ron , your genius is amazing. I completely overlooked Rule 83, Section 8, Paragraph 3 where it discusses lifetime memberships. To summarize, it says regular or associate members may become lifetime...
There has been a lot aof talk about dues, entry fees and and just plain payoffs. I have taken on my own to buy a bulding for the Assn. The NPA can afford it. It's in beautiful Seal Beach. It's a...
I've told you of my concern about green peppers. Many of them are not stock--they're illegal. I guess you're trying to imply that the above ar not illegals. Hanging out with bananas???
IN...
Ron, You've always had what you called "hair-brained" ideas, but this time I think you've gone too far. Of course we want our association to grow like the good days, but we don't want to change.
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Wayne, maybe I can give you some additional background info. First, in mentioning the officiers, Ron totally omitted the Treasurer. That would be ME. All monies should be sent to me. I, and my...
No, we can't get it approved as is. King Apba must approve an official left hand glove (about $279) and require wearing it and holding the kill switch (wrench) at all times while racing--safety...
In the serious old days of racing, in the '40s and '50s, we used aluminum buttons. Later, formica buttons. But when we started using "fly-weight" wrist pins, we had to use wires, because the edge...
Jeff Connant posted in Facebook item, that a new 250cc record of 112MPH was set. It took my breath away. In 1940 A's were running about 37-39 MPH. After the War (the big one) in about '47 or '48,...
Could be. Why at a given RPM? We're racing, so mamimum RPM/HP is what we're talking about. What the optimum ratio should be depends on a number of variables, not the least of which is the oil.
Sam, I think your methodology for testing and quantifying viscosity is perfect. However, with all due respect, so what? It is certainly not clear to me how or if fuel viscosity correlates to engine...
Brings back a lot of memories. I first raced there in 1957. Chuck Parsons lived right across the street from the park. We arrived late the night before and slept in the grass in Chuck's front yard...
1959 sounds right, but it was a sad day in the history of stock outboard racing.
Now, I didn't really like the Hot Rods and I was a pretty big Mercury fan. The stock Mercury 20H was getting beat...
Somebody above said the first KR was 1928. That's not really correct. The 1928 opposed 14 cu in was called an A but the second digit R didn't appear until 1931. That was the KR55. It was and...
If I'm still round that far in the future, I'd be happy to perform the function I did at the last reunion. I made the group more money than anybody else. I pimped the silent auction. I raised an...
The Bill Koch story about being thrown into the front seat, then the back seat and then the front seat is 100% correct. I'm not saying there's a grain of truth in the story, but that's exactly how...
I think you need to look at all the numbers, not just the dollar signs.
It cost one money unit for entry fee, the same for a barbeque dinner. First place prize money was 40 times entry fee. ...
Just talked to Ron--We decided the $26 deal was 1946 (or maybe '47)
The race was totally blown out. My dad and Jackie Maypole, after talking to many of the drivers, went to the sponsor and said we came to race and your weather wouldn't let us, so how about dividing...
Sam,
I gotta keep you honest. I agree with some of what you say but it's a little too broad for me. "It can damage the coil on any motor." CAN? Yeah, I guess it CAN; I've heard this all my...
It’s taken a few days for me to be able to write about John. It was such a loss to boat racing and to me personally. I’m also sorry the services were so soon, that I couldn’t make it to them. When...
Johnny Woods passed away last night. I have lost a good friend, and boat racing has lost one its best friends.
From what I’m able to obtain from the St. Louis newspaper and what I heard from the...
First, real outboard racers don't use cowlings.
How much did Ron pay? Nothing, the owner probably paid Ron to take it away.
How much will Rod pay? That's a dumb question. Has he ever...
It's not really "flame speed", but flame proagation and, in theory, slower flame propagation could/should provide some power down the stroke. That's why various additives could provide more power.
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I think there’s a little confusion here and I’d like to shed a little light, if I may. Quit now if you’re easily bored.
First octane: It doesn’t really exist, now, it’s a fabricated number. ...
Straight through at top dead center is as good as it gets. On the old factory rotary valves there was a cap screw which when open you could see the edge of the gear and on the gear was a J (for...
Just set engine on top dead center (pistons all the way up). Hold valve so you can look straight through it. Bolt it on--all 5 bolts.
In the old days, there were therorists who could explain in...
Yes, Wayne, "standard" was 18mm, one inch wrench. All real engines had 18 mm plugs until that guy from Wisconsin started using the tiny (14mm) plugs. He started a new fad. You want an 18mm? I'll...
Roy,
What you say may be true--that he didn't see the market for larger engines, BUT, the story is a little more complex, involving Sears, Roebuck & Co. I won't tell it here
Russ Hill
That was really a good biography on Bob McCulloch. I had the privilege of knowing him. His office was a few miles down the freeway from my office. Of course, his office was on the top floor of the...
Yes, Champion did "recondition" old spark plugs and put them in white boxes. We would typically get back about 50% of the plugs we sent in. Champion would tell us words to the effect that some of...
We fellas must be younger? Well Ron is. But if you were born in 1941, I got socks older than you.
Of course he had a steering wheel. When you come up early for a start, you aways have to lean out the carb.
One of my proudest moments was in the 1956 Nationals at Long Beach was when Ward...
Sorry, Marshall, for copying your book's name. I remember clearly more than 90% of those guys and their boats. As a twelve year old kid, I had nothing else to put into my brain.
I remember Leonard Keller (nobody called him Len). I raced against him once in 1948, in A Alkie hydro at Lake Mead. He may have been one of the few guys I ever beat in my racing career.
In 1948,...
I don't know anything about the engines except for what a guy told me in De Pue Last summer. He said the 30 CI, 500cc 4 cyl engine would pull 197 horses, which blew my mind. I forget his name, but...
Yes, Kathie, I remember BILL Palethorpe. Don't remember him ever being called Jim. He was (maybe IS if still alive) a good guy. Very dedicated to his job of pimping Mercury Outboards. He was...
I think the President's name was Earl Twining. I rubbed elbows with a lot of those Dudes at the Indy races. I drove by the 11th Street shop in Long Beach yesterday, as a result of reading this...
No, Ron , external (i. e., gear driven) rotary valves were on all S, P, V and X engines from 1929 through 1936. That's 20, 30, 40, and 50 ci.
And, Matts, there was really no difference in the...
No, the early (Price, Hubbell, et al) aftermarket parts were not improvements. In some cases the weaker spots were "beefed up" but not changed--emulating "factory" was where the aftermaket tried to...
The gearcase on the engine in the top (first) picture is a positively a PR65. It may have been a "factory" (Johnson), or a Homer Price, or in later years,(1949 or so) a Hubbell. I assembled several...
Thanks, Sam, it's nice to have somebody like you reporting who really knows his/her stuff. Keep up the good work.
Separately, on the subject of Swedish outboard companies, where does...
Ron called me today and said I should check out the latest on Jack Leek. I did. As i said, we lost a winner.
But then I saw the words "Winter Nationals" and laughed. You know we old folks...