The really "Old School" boating thread

[RyanPartridge]

1967

Now that's beautiful.

[Sharp shooter]

Now that's beautiful.

Owners name was Charles Brown. True story.

[RyanPartridge]

Owners name was Charles Brown. True story.

Good Grief is a good name...

[Sharp shooter]

1960

[gn7]

[Sharp shooter]

I guess that bottom one would be like a modern day STV. Never seen one before...

This is an outboard engine research and test boat.

[Sharp shooter]

Woodpecker.

[gn7]

Woodpecker.

Cool picture.
Theres that mag driven fuel pump like on Panic Mouse. Damn that had to out some torsional strain on the camshaft!!
Shooter, did you twist of the pump drive on Hocho? Can you imagine driving the mag and the fuel pump?

Morse dry stack, naturally And a Morbet hydraulic throttle. Morse cables must not have been as smooth as they are today.

Strangest thing is, the blower still has the lip on this side to help "hang" the blower on the side of a diesel engine while to the bolts are installed. Usually that lip is machined away to match the other side. If you notice the ribs on the blower look very "deep" and taper out the very edge of the blower. When the blower case is machined off, those ribs are flat about the last 1" or so and the blower hold down bolts are closer to the edge of the case.
On the later 6-71, there were 2 tabs, on the early blowers it was one continuous lip.
Never seen a blower setup for racing with the lip still on the original GMC case. On some engines like Pontiacs, Olds, and SBC, the lip will hit the valve covers, so they usually all get machined off.
But my favorite is the chrome plated Home Depot water plumbing fittings. AN was simply tooooo expensive to use for water. But chroming brass fittings was cheap.

[Wheeler]

Woodpecker.

I haven't seen that pic in about 50 years.
Thanks Jerry!