Post Engine Pics

[Hot Boat]

Shifter any photos of the drives???

 

[shifter]

We did the scarab the same way, it is now hanging up at the Lucas oil stadium, but Reggies had to have Mercs so we did two extra 9 inch offset boxes to get up to the input of the drives. I hung them off the 4 bolts on the gimbal and cut the input flange off. We snapped a carbon shaft off when we lost a ujoint strap leading the cats in its best race at N.C. The dumb driveshaft company did not know the bolts were metric in the yoke end so....... crossthreads are better than no threads right. That boat ended up being converted to bravos (Shogren) and left for Europe Searex. I never got any pics of it.

pat W

 

[shifter]

Here is a little better angle It is our WSD drive.
pat W

 

[Coolerman]

Here is a little better angle It is our WSD drive.
pat W

How different is the length of your drive when compared to a #6? How deep is the skeg as well when compared to a 6? Just nosy :sifone:

 

[Rik]

Some guy from Iowa

 

[Coolerman]

Some guy from Iowa

Is that boat still sitting? or has anything happened with it?

 

[Rik]

Sitting there is the shop, motors on the stands with the heads off so no pressure on the valve springs.

The coolest boat ever. No boat I've ever seen sounded like the Sorcerer. Rod was ahead of his time, he made the air shifting crash box, down turn muffler pipes, the larger Lysom blowers, and many other ideas along with over 2,000 hp.

 

[Joe sunsation]

Sunsation F-4 twin Merc 700's

 

[ManBayBoater]

Twin 850 hawks???

 

[Traviss]

Well nothing spectacular like you all,

just my little stroked sbc...ballpark 540-550 hp

 

[shifter]

Those skegs are 4 inches longer.

The overall length is determined by the standoff box. +10 inches on the #6 in this case. Our other drive WMD is the same as a 3a but we use them with the standoff to set them in the right spot for the application. These are +2 inches longer.

pat W

 

[Strip Poker 388]

Strip Poker 388

That is all us.

The engines are facing flywheel to flywheel with a U-shape transmission and a Z shape transmission. The offset transmissions are FNR and they send the driveshafts to the rear, under the the headers to the 6-speeds, and then the drives.

I designed the brackets for the serpentine belt to mount the sea pump and the powersteering pump. The arrangement is different for the front motor and the rear (no power steering) Flipped the intakes, Mefi 4 controllers and cable throttle body. Very stock engines. The engine complete with headers, steel engine mounts, bellhousing, clutch, offset transmission = 624 lbs.

We wanted to have the engines as low as possible. They are counter rotating because they are flywheel to flywheel. I picked the LS7 for the power to weight ratio. We are looking at several other engines to go with our transmissions and drives. So far these are hard to beat.

pat W:sifone:

Thats some coool shet

 

[viperfitness1]

i was bored yesterday...

 

[Bad Idea Baja]

Just a little tight in the 29' ELB's engine compartment.
The picture on the right is during rigging. Excuse the mess.

 

[catmando]

I didn't know Nortech put 4 in the V.

The beam on the Cary is 14.6.

Larry Jones's Masquerade has four Ron Potter 650s and runs 90.

 

[rockfish71]

gen6 502 580hp

 

[Scarab KV]

i was bored yesterday...

Thanks Viper. Cool pics...now I have the music score from Space Odessy stuck in my head.

 

[OU Want Some?!!]

:willy_nilly:the grocery getters...:willy_nilly:

 

[Sunsation96]

Not much, compared to you guy's I guess it would be a hybrid:rofl:

 

[Bad Idea Baja]

:willy_nilly:the grocery getters...:willy_nilly:

Delo, why are the bird catchers on backards? Catch reverse flying birds?