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I finally got the repower on the Chris Craft done and have some time for myself. I dug around in my "pile' and came up with a flywheel and point plate for an energy transfer ignition.What it's from...

I stand corrected,but you got admit,that's a hefty amount.
Will

I present,for your consideration,9 and 3/4 pounds of Rotax ignition....
The flywheel by itself weighs almost 7 pounds.I'll give you one guess as to where all this is going to go.I'm not going to...

After a fair amount of thinking about it,I've decided to copy the boat I have with some changes. Lengthen the after plane some(86" now)lengthen the sponsons to "match",change the nontrips to more of...

While I'm pondering the boat thing..... I got to thinking about the ignition on my Rotax. Right now it has a "2 of everything" Bosche set up.2 coils,two triggers and an adjustable stator(so are the...

Well,now I am in the indecisive mode... When I got the plans from Ed,I explained that I wanted it to be "good" to 100. I think I'm going to have to go and visit Ed again. The motors I run are...

I think so.I have a set of Karelsen plans I got from Ed with hand notations on changes to make. Bassically add 4" to the afterplane and lean the transom back to 25 degrees instead of 15.
I'm not...

Well. I could say "Oh rats and mice" about my weekend and do nothing but complain,but..... Friday testing was a struggle mostly because I'm so out of "practice" and I've never run the Polaris on my...

I took the clutch unit to Eatonville for a "new" driver to run(Al Benson).
Of course I put the"curse" on myself by NOT taking another power head or motor and telling myself (and others)"This thing...

Another stunning creation from Canby Oregon... Why am I NOT surprised at the quality of design and workmanship... Probably because I've known Lee for some time and seen alot of his creativity "up...

I would be sort of worried about the effect on the ring lands and the wrist pin holes because those have to "fit".
The "dust" from glass beading is incredibly fine and unbeleivably abrasive. It is...

I've been real quiet for a while due to a "delicate" operation in March that may solve an issue involving running a laydown boat. I "sort of" got too carried away the day after and added a few extra...

That's interesting. If it's one of the early ones, it would've come with CDI (a rather obnoxious set up prone to failure in the strangest ways and very expensive at the time) The 72 and up...

I really don't know for sure but OMCs MO on differences between "same" displacement motors was mainly carburation,timing and (sometimes) internal exhaust tuning. You might check the part number on...

Dan,
An altogether excellent thought. I've been sort of "stuck"on the thought of controlling the drive clutch while allowing the driven clutch to "do it's thing".
This new perspective,in the...

After a couple phone calls and failed email attempts, I finally got through to SS White Technologies (the flex shaft folks). Unlike Hilliard corp. ( the clutch people who totally blew me off),...

I try to stay as far away from Mercs as I can get(it's a little "quirky" thing I have) But if it's got a removeable exhaust cover and plate (maybe?) that's where I'd look.
Will

Ken, It's not a matter of belt slippage. The drive clutch is regulated by RPM and the driven clutch is reactionary ( pretty sure that you know that but I'm putting that in for folks who don't)...

Bill,
As I once heard in a movie,"Pay no attention to that man behind the
curtain..." I know a place in Tacoma that has a way better price on scrap.
On a more serious note, I have here a very...

I seen fins in about every shape and cuts. Rectangular,tapered,Simitar in different styles. Leading edge cut on the right side,cut on the left side or center cut. I know someone who "shims" the front...

I was going to go the the SOA "oldtimers" meeting last night but had a very early AM call I had to be here for so...............
Got this from my brother this AM. This is something that Dwight...

I'm sort of "in the twilight" of my life. My brain works OK but the rest of me has started to go down hill so I have alot of time to think about this stuff.
There's an outfit in Cal. that...

If you're using a motor that doesn't turn a ton(like a Honda),one of the stock clutches from Hilliard Corp. would do fine and they come in a few different configurations on the output side. single...

A big "Thank You" to John. It would've taken me a month of "surfing" around with my ancient Mac on dial up. I did go there yesterday and did some
figuring and looking. Got so excited about the...

The galvinized cable used for guy wires is way different the cable you see on winches. It's design is for primary tensil. That is , it isn't meant to flex.You can break it if it's in a continual...

This what I ment when I said "spherical bushing". Easy to see that they suppor5t the cable really well and cut way down on the housing contact.
I don't think that a "K&B" sort of thing is...

I ,obviously, have too much time on my hands..................
This is the way I "sort of" envision a really simple cable drive. Basically a smooth bore housing( appropiate wall thickness...

This is another one of those things that runs through my brain at times.
If you look at weed eater cables,you'll see that they "wind up" when they"drive" the spool. They use tension to transmit...

I put out some feelers on another site and found a couple 250s and 3 340s.The 250s need pistons and rings(probably some crank work too) and 1 of the 340s is an "NOS" never run "in the crate" but I'm...

I have thought about that scenario.The issues are having a BIG tank( or going to the lake) and a "fixed load". It would take a bit of "experimentation"
to get your test wheel where you want to go....

Well, so much for "knowing" where something is .... or thinking you know.
Those pieces have either jumped into another dimension..... or I threw them out in a cleaning frenzy. I'm going to do some...

I haven't had much to do but "think" for few days... The "big blow" of "06"
ripped the service line off the meter mast and PSE just got to me today.(Thank all for that... now the folks next door...

Considering that I've only had them for a week and a half... Not bad at all.
Still quite bit of swelling and a few sore spots but I'm "commited" to having them and the "advantages" out weigh my...

As I recall it was a CB77, their "racey" version of the Dream that had tubular forks instead of leading link and dual carbs. At the time it was really fast and had a sound that was definitly...

The things I run over stock 302 units make about 60-70 HP at 8500-9000.
I haven't had any failures other than ones "induced" by my rather imprecise methods. They probably don't make much torque at...

I worked for the NW Kawasaki "crank" station in the 70s. Singles are easy,twins are a little more difficult, triples can be a real pain because of the indexing. Twins are always 180 off each other...

Did some surfing the other AM (somtimes I wake up in the "early" AM,like 2:15, and can't go back to sleep). "Just because",I Googled Xenoah.... It appears that Fuji manufactured the Xenoah sled...

In my "lucid" moments,I've been considering what other motors are available and suitable for what I do. I've put out"feelers" about Xenoah engines Just to see what might be available. So far I've...

Thanks for the offer Ron,we'll see where this goes.
The latest in the SAGA consists mostly of "looking and thinking". I've emailed the outfit that made the clutch with a few questions and.........

I've gotten to where I like to make them reasonably attractive now because I know they'll work.
I'll be "off the air" for a bit. I had 14 teeth pulled this AM.Need some "recovery time" before I...

I thought that today would be the final chapter..... ho ho ho.......
I figured I'd just cut this thing apart , roll up an internal sleeve and fit it so I could slide the center section...

Took some time off from " tooth-o-rama recovery" and went out to the shop.(had 6 pulled Monday AM. ALL will come out on the 23rd so I'm trying to get as much done now as I can)
These pipes are...

Well.... that's certainly true . I can't think much of anything else that you can actually "feel" like the Wankle . A total shame that it won't perform as good as it sounds.
Got out to the...

It's Ready To Run ...... It always helps to speed things up when you've got a pile of stuff to paw through whe you need a piece. The "down" pipe was really simple to mount. The "up" mount required...

Fuel system is "plumbed" , Steering bars mounted and the mount for the "up front" pipe The "down under" pipe won't take much to mount but that long skinny one (off a 400 Polaris) will take a little...

Took a few days to make my Dodge into better driver because my dirty S-15 broke (1 out of 2 isn't too bad) ......
It's starting to look more complete . Final mount on the carbs and fab the...

I'm "cleaning up" so before I stash things away , I thought I'd take couple pics so you can see the progession from where I started to now .
From right to left , the first one that ran a 250...

GOOD GRIEF !!! That's more HP & torque than my pick up has and.......
Those throttle bodies have sent me off on another tangent of thought that I've been trying to suppress . Dog gone you Ken ,...

Well... If some one were to want one of these ? I'd be happy to build one for anybody who would want one . It beats the fool out of what I usually do to make my tax payments.( I used to be able to...

I "could've" been doing my dishes .... or my laundry... or fixing the broken clutch diaphragm in my dirty S-15 ..... But NOOOOO . Ron posts a picture of that shiny OMC tower and all I wanted to...