How did that carb work mounted sideways?
( I dont want to hear it was a rotary so centrifical force kept the fuel in the bowll)
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My guess is the engines were tested horizontally in the prototype phase, ans that the image is rotated 90 degrees. The tip is what appears to be a starter pull on the end opposite the flywheel. Might this be a leftover from a snowmobile application that would have the PTO where the flywheel is?
Tim
I think Tim is right ... look at it this way:
The wires now seem to be hanging down naturally and the things now at the right appear to be parts bins with nuts and bolts in them
I don't know what i am looking at in regards to 6HP powerheads, but I do know that is a belt driven torque converter as used in a snowmobile in the flywheel of the first motor. Are you sure these are outboards and not something that maybe was not intended for Cushman carts or Lawnboy mowers? The taper on op of the flywheel without the clutch is used for a belt as well.....The snowmobiles had fins over the end of the housing.
Thanks guys, I think you got it.
Lars
I agree, I always asked why they didnt make Jet ski's as they will be big soon after seeing Kawasaki 440's start to turned up to our marina in Oz in the late 70's.
Both Merc and OMC said there was no market and they will be banned soon?
My big question to John if he can answer is
Back in 100 cu days why wasn't a V6 made using 49cu stuff?
The first showing of the V-6 was at Paris in 1973; Johnnie Sanders won the race with that engine. It was actually made from 100cu V-4 parts with a new block and head castings resulting in 150ci. The crank was actually made from 2 V-4 cranks welded together. OMC got a copy of the Merc V-6 and knew it was a 122cu looper with a 60 degree V. It was a HP race. OMC knew they would get more HP out of 150ci than Merc could from 122. Also the 60 degree V from Merc wouldn't allow a bigger bore, so OMC thought they had won the HP race. Be sides, OMC had all the machinery to machine the V where as the 49ci was inline.
Guys. The picture of the engine horizontal is correct. It shows the snowmobile engines as they were produced on the assembly line at Evinrude in Milkwauke. The flywheel was one half of varriable sheeve pully used for the drive; an OMC patent. The posting Ken had before with the colored slide shows the prototype 6 HP outboard. It got put in with the snowmobile engine with the wrong orientation that was taged 6 HP outboard.