Which side iz tha rite side????

[T-REX]

Hey Ron, don't go speckt'in me make'in chizk'in salad outta chikk'in poo, but juss ta set tha record strate, I did run a 5 cyl 2liter in Plymouth one yeer...made 3 passes, and turn'd 8100 rpm!!...I broke a ring, which broke tha pisson top off #5, so I removed the #5 pisson and rod, and ran it for points!!...it wuz still runn'in after tha race, and loaded on it's own power(which wuz down juss a tadd..).....Now who'z ya call'in krazy???...

[Powerabout]

Thanks, T-Rex for includinging in your list of "Crazy People".....Could you make a four cylinder this way?? Or are there no timing things for a four banger???

Hi Ron
do you want to cut a V8 in half?

[Fastjeff57]

Been done years ago with Chevy V-8s, but this guy didn't bother with al that (for a Bonneville record run). Kinda makes one think of the Merc V-6 on three holes!

Jeff

[Ron Hill]

But most aren't insane.

One year we were getting ready for Parker and Ted Zahorski gave me a V-6 short block form Yamaha's warrantee motors to use.

My dad pulled it a part, ported it and put it back together. Five hours into the race a piston broke on number six hole. We pulled the head, took the rod and piston out and slapped it back together . We finished 4th in MOD VP.

After we got home, my dad was a little surprised that the piston broke. When he checked a little deeper, he realized he'd put a standard piston in a .030 hole. How a new warrantee block had one hole .030 over I never found the reason. Funny, my dad hones it, stuck a .030 back in, and she ran great...

As far as three banger to four banger......I always like "MORE BANG FOR BUCK CLASSES"....Like A Hydro, put an AXS restictor in an you are and AXS, put a J restrictor in and you are a J.....

I was just thinking maybe a three banger would be too slow for a 250 pounder, like me, but maybe a four banger would carry the weight...

I know half a V-8 is a V-4....

[Jackson]

Does anyone have a pic of these 3 banger monsters?

[Trident]

See post #11

They look just like a full V-6 with a flat aluminum plate in place of Stb. cylinder head. No plugs, coils or plug wires on those 3, of course.

[sabine river killer]

1/2 merc done right

[Powerabout]

Merc tried everything to make a competitive 3 banger....then gave up

[Trident]

So, you never saw one of their Mod 50 / F3 loopers?

I think there were only a handful ever built, none sold as customer motors, and I'm guessing it had no real application as a service motor for sale to the public.

Instead, they sold those tractor motors, the 71 cube 3 cylinder 70, 75, 80, 90 and its bigger 4 cylinder brother. Very robust, but hardly a performance motor.

Then the later threes run well...

[Powerabout]

Thats interesting
got any photos?

If OMC thought to build the M31 and Merc built a compeditor to that racing would have been great.

How many years did they race?
Cheers