I just thought Osa is really brave to take that thing out in open waters and hop over waves with it. He was undefeated in that little boat.
Ya if Osa went up with the set up and allow the 12p Tunnel Boat prop surface it would have been a lot faster.
He is draggin the gear case thru water and not allowing prop to ventilate, that's why rpms @ only 6,000..................
45ss has 1:1 gears per APBA
http://www.apba.org/sites/all/files/...N%20022515.pdf
with 12" pitch at 6000 and 1:1 gears theoretical speed no slip = 68 mph
61 mph slip would be 10.5%
His posted 61 would be reasonable. I have seen passes at 60 by GPS and that boat in the video is there.
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Don't bother guys, simple Phill is pretty simple when it comes to math probrems
there is plenty of posts and pics on other forums about this boat and motor,
go check out the pics of it with your sharpeye...
you obviously believe this is a genuine omc race motor .
I did not know that a shifting gearcase can be 1to1 ratio , I thought that was the non shifting special and rare gearcase.
In the VIDEO the Evinrude 45ss Osa ran had the original 45ss Gearcase with a 12p tunnel boat prop.
I mentioned to Osa that a nitro foot w/low water pu & 11 x 21 would carry that V-hull and not break loose as much........
This same motor in the VIDEOoriginally did 73 mph @ 7,200 in quarter mile drag on a 13' Tomcat Tunnel and dominated it's drag class in SE Virginia.
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Thats a stock manifold. I removed single carb studs & shaved the aluminum down till it had a flat surface big enough to accept the 85hp 2 barrel carb. I made an adapter plate with 4 studs to mount the carb. There is a center block epoxied into the stock manifold to separate the barrels, 1 each cyl. The adapter plat is epoxied onto the cut manifold & thru screwed where the manifold studs were. a couple are under the carb so I used flat head SS screws there. It sealed right 1st try & ran 1st try. Next is going to be a V block reed set up but that will be more difficult. When done it will drastically reduce crank case volume & eliminate the pre historic 'wall' of reed obstruction.
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