B Looper

[F-12]

I'm not sure but I think I remember hearing he passed away a while back. He was one of the good ones. He was a fierce competetor but a barrel of laughs after the races were over. Always ready to help out another racer, too.

[Gene East]

Gene or anybody that knows. Why was the botton part of the butterfly on Quincy Carter carbs cut off. None that i have, have full butterflys or the stock one. They are all cut off.

It is my understanding this was done to prevent a rich fuel/air mixture from fouling spark plugs when backing off the throttle on the old mag ignition.

CD ignition would fire through 90wt gear oil (not really) but it was much better. We never changed back because there weren't that many uncut butterflies left.

Chris offerred to buy 1000 Model N's from Carter in the late 60's.

They were very gracious when they told him a special run of only 1000 units would be cost prohibitive.

Before electrical disconnect switches I nearly put a B-Hydro on the rocks at Lake Cooper (Hamilton, IL) because the cut butterfly did not kill the engine when I backed off coming into the pits.

Although I raced very little Chris often let me take a ride at the end of the day.

I'm sure he would not have been proud of me if I smashed the boat against the rocks at 70MPH

[Danny Pigott]

What a great motor, I can't remember who these guys were. This was Hinton W.V.

[Danny Pigott]

Yamato F this motor belong to the same guys.

[Mark75H]

Joe Michellini ?

[Master Oil Racing Team]

The looper throws me off, but Airmarine is Joe Michelini, but I was never around him enough to say that's him looking from behind. However, in the background you can see Jim McKean. Joe wanted Tim Butts to drive the 8 cylinder Yamato for him at Dayton, but Tim refused. To tie it altogether is that stacked pair of Yamato's. Dan Kirts was set to drive it, but it broke before it really got on a plane.

[Mark75H]

Michellini had a 6 cylinder looper with 9 carbs

[hydrodriver]

He are those engines from a pix I took at the Kaukauna kilo's in '75

[Danny Pigott]

This is a Qunicy 4 cyl. throttle hook up these were used on both deflector and loop motors.i have seen one on a DMH in the last couple years. I would guess Quncy started making them in the mid 50's. This one came off a C alky Merc. that once belong to Billy Hugan from Ala.

[Aeroliner]

20H case

I just receied a 20-H crank and reed block that I bought from a friend. He tossed in a second reed block that looks like it would mate with the 20-H case modified by quincy.

Alan