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    Quote Originally Posted by 850cc racer View Post
    i have 1.87-1, 2-1 and 2.4-1

    ill get that lower apart in a couple of weeks.
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    Hopefully Bill Ghor can help us out with the part numbers?

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    Quote Originally Posted by 850cc racer View Post
    powerabout werent u an oz dealer? or am i thinking of someone else?

    did our FT's come with 2-1 boxes??

    as 2-1 here is kinda "common"
    Are you talking about the FT 19S???

    I was the lucky one to receive the first FT 19S built, for the big SE Race in Sweden
    1976.

    The gear ratio was the same as a stock 75 short shaft..I tried the 55hp gears
    but worth less..no speed only RPM..

    PS..OMC never made anyone rich..but sometimes you could use OMC products
    to get rich..and a Powerboat World Champ..
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bill Gohr View Post

    When money was good here I do remember people buying engines over there and shipping them back here, generally in Florida, we would get lots of "B" motors on warranty claims, people would really get pissed when they found out that V8 with the blown piston has no warranty.

    Well..OMC only built up to 70 hp in Belgium..The V-4, V-6 and V-8 was
    built in Waukegan..but some of those engines
    "took a round trip to Sweden"..

    The OMC warranty was good all over the world, but some dealers refuse
    to work on motors that was not sold by them..

    Back then, some years OMC gave dealers warranty parts..instead of credit for installed parts..Many dealers did not like that..

    Lots of "round trip OMC outboards" where sold in California also.

    Return of US made goods..no duty needed to be paid..
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    For the people interested: If you look at the site www.bruggemarinecenter.com, and then go to bedrijfsinfo (company info) and then geschiedenis (history) you can see a picture of the former Omc europe racing facility.

    This site now houses a boat company wich sells engines and ribs.

    The former Omc factory was on the same industrial park and was sold to a company that recycled Polyester waste, but they went bankrupt en a gigantic amount of polyester waste was left there (almost 2500 full truck loads).

    It now houses a printing company.

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    Post # 567..http://www.boatracingfacts.com/forum...t=6727&page=57

    “The Boat House”…OMC´s old racing building in Belgium have a new life..!!
    Click below for more info and picture,

    http://svera.se/blogg/2012/04/15/the...ve-a-new-life/
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mercuryfan View Post
    For the people interested: If you look at the site www.bruggemarinecenter.com, and then go to bedrijfsinfo (company info) and then geschiedenis (history) you can see a picture of the former Omc europe racing facility.

    This site now houses a boat company wich sells engines and ribs.

    The former Omc factory was on the same industrial park and was sold to a company that recycled Polyester waste, but they went bankrupt en a gigantic amount of polyester waste was left there (almost 2500 full truck loads).

    It now houses a printing company.
    Danke, aber, das Bild ist etwast zu klein für meine jetzigen Augen! Wurde interessant sein, mehr bilder vom Vergangenheit zu sehen.
    Joe

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lars Strom View Post
    Well..OMC only built up to 70 hp in Belgium..The V-4, V-6 and V-8 was
    built in Waukegan..but some of those engines
    "took a round trip to Sweden"..

    The OMC warranty was good all over the world, but some dealers refuse
    to work on motors that was not sold by them..

    Back then, some years OMC gave dealers warranty parts..instead of credit for installed parts..Many dealers did not like that..

    Lots of "round trip OMC outboards" where sold in California also.

    Return of US made goods..no duty needed to be paid..

    I've written before that BRP is not OMC, they don't advertise and promote. From Croatia through Italy to N. Germany we saw six Evinrude E-Tecs in a sea of lumbering 4 stroke Hondas and Yamahas this summer. Two were in NE Germany, had never seen more than one there before, so decided to visit the nearest dealer, Olaf Lingrön in Barth. Surprise! There was a brand new 2002 Johnson 30 in the showroom, price ca. 5000 Euro (about $6200). Son Lars, shown below, said that they were a Johnson dealer since 1997, and that when OMC collapsed they bought up the existing stock of 30 motors. The 2002 30 is the last of that stock.
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    Joe, i just posted it in addition to the thread, it is indeed a bit small.
    I would love to see more pictures of how everything was back in the omc europe days, i live closeby the former site and have also visited the company wich now resides in the building but nothing there reminds of the omc time.

    It still seems to me that you can read almost everything there is to know about Mercury history, from the products to lake x and everything about Mr Kiekhaefer, but there are a lot of missing parts about omc history.

    Mabe some one else has pictures of Omc Belgium??

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mercuryfan View Post
    Joe, i just posted it in addition to the thread, it is indeed a bit small.
    I would love to see more pictures of how everything was back in the omc europe days, i live closeby the former site and have also visited the company wich now resides in the building but nothing there reminds of the omc time.

    It still seems to me that you can read almost everything there is to know about Mercury history, from the products to lake x and everything about Mr Kiekhaefer, but there are a lot of missing parts about omc history.

    Mabe some one else has pictures of Omc Belgium??
    I'm close to Edgar Rose and Jim Nerstrom but they're not talking much about it. Someone close to Strang would have to interview him. Ralph Evinrude also would have been the man to interview. Dennis Evinrude is active in AOMC but I don't know that he was really involved in OMC. Wouldn't hurt to ask him, I guess.

    We can thank too strong outboard emissions rules for causing severe problems, and George Soros for helping to fund the idiot who beat Penske out of buying OMC, then drove the co. further into the ground out of ignorance.

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    Quote Originally Posted by 850cc racer View Post
    ahhh interesting. well i am thinking of buying a bobs machine shop low water pick up nose cone for a case i have, so im thinking ill put the 2-1 gears in it.. ill take photos of gears and post on here!

    cheers
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    I know that this is an old post, But Where are the pictures of the 2.0 /1 nitro gears?

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