On Apr 20, 12:57*pm, Tim wrote:
On Apr 20, 11:17*am, wrote:

On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 05:30:05 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

I couldn't resis, so I went out and muffed the Oli and fired it up
this morning.

Hey hold the noise down, I'm trying to sleep here. ;-)
Maybe I will crank up my table saw at 2 AM and cut up some aluminum
angle.

Oh I didn't rack it off 'much' jsut enough to get it to idle out and
it does have such a neat sound at idle. It's fun listening to it
"cackle" on every hit. Beautiful tune actually.

If I want to wake the neighbors up, I'd fire up the Stihl *O64!

Yeah, Prestolites. They were good for their day ... sort of.

Interesting though now that we're speaking of electric boat trim and
starter motors. I ahv a 'like-new' Mercury "Dock Buster" starter made
by Delco. The Dock Buster motors were direct drive and you started the
egine by turning it one way, and to go in reverse, you killed the
engine, reversed the brush polarity through the seris of solonoids,
and started the engine in the oposite direction.

It's interesting to see an outboard starter with two oposing pinion
gears on the same shaft....

Yep, liked to hear mine idle out of the water!!

On Apr 20, 12:39*pm, Loogypicker wrote:
On Apr 20, 12:57*pm, Tim wrote:





On Apr 20, 11:17*am, wrote:

On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 05:30:05 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

I couldn't resis, so I went out and muffed the Oli and fired it up
this morning.

Hey hold the noise down, I'm trying to sleep here. ;-)
Maybe I will crank up my table saw at 2 AM and cut up some aluminum
angle.

Oh I didn't rack it off 'much' jsut enough to get it to idle out and
it does have such a neat sound at idle. It's fun listening to it
"cackle" on every hit. Beautiful tune actually.

If I want to wake the neighbors up, I'd fire up the Stihl *O64!

Yeah, Prestolites. They were good for their day ... sort of.

Interesting though now that we're speaking of electric boat trim and
starter motors. I ahv a 'like-new' Mercury "Dock Buster" starter made
by Delco. The Dock Buster motors were direct drive and you started the
egine by turning it one way, and to go in reverse, you killed the
engine, reversed the brush polarity through the seris of solonoids,
and started the engine in the oposite direction.

It's interesting to see an outboard starter with two oposing pinion
gears on the same shaft....

Yep, liked to hear mine idle out of the water!!- Hide quoted text -

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I wish i could find it on the net, but I remember some cycle magazine
having a run down on somebody that cranked up a V-4 OMC, laid it
horizontal with nothing but a clutch, put it in a motorcycle frame and
made a drag bike out of it. With no water cooling (That I could tell)
I wonder how many passes that thing would make before locking up?

"Tim" wrote in message
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On Apr 20, 12:39 pm, Loogypicker wrote:
On Apr 20, 12:57 pm, Tim wrote:





On Apr 20, 11:17 am, wrote:

On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 05:30:05 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

I couldn't resis, so I went out and muffed the Oli and fired it up
this morning.

Hey hold the noise down, I'm trying to sleep here. ;-)
Maybe I will crank up my table saw at 2 AM and cut up some aluminum
angle.

Oh I didn't rack it off 'much' jsut enough to get it to idle out and
it does have such a neat sound at idle. It's fun listening to it
"cackle" on every hit. Beautiful tune actually.

If I want to wake the neighbors up, I'd fire up the Stihl O64!

Yeah, Prestolites. They were good for their day ... sort of.

Interesting though now that we're speaking of electric boat trim and
starter motors. I ahv a 'like-new' Mercury "Dock Buster" starter made
by Delco. The Dock Buster motors were direct drive and you started the
egine by turning it one way, and to go in reverse, you killed the
engine, reversed the brush polarity through the seris of solonoids,
and started the engine in the oposite direction.

It's interesting to see an outboard starter with two oposing pinion
gears on the same shaft....

Yep, liked to hear mine idle out of the water!!- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

I wish i could find it on the net, but I remember some cycle magazine
having a run down on somebody that cranked up a V-4 OMC, laid it
horizontal with nothing but a clutch, put it in a motorcycle frame and
made a drag bike out of it. With no water cooling (That I could tell)
I wonder how many passes that thing would make before locking up?

Most really strong drag motors do not run water or coolent. Before the
Donavan motors there was a substance like Water Glass, forget the name, that
you filled the block with to add strength on AA furlers. You realize a big
drag bike will only be running the moter for 25-45 seconds. at a time.

On Apr 20, 2:11*pm, Tim wrote:
On Apr 20, 12:39*pm, Loogypicker wrote:





On Apr 20, 12:57*pm, Tim wrote:

On Apr 20, 11:17*am, wrote:

On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 05:30:05 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

I couldn't resis, so I went out and muffed the Oli and fired it up
this morning.

Hey hold the noise down, I'm trying to sleep here. ;-)
Maybe I will crank up my table saw at 2 AM and cut up some aluminum
angle.

Oh I didn't rack it off 'much' jsut enough to get it to idle out and
it does have such a neat sound at idle. It's fun listening to it
"cackle" on every hit. Beautiful tune actually.

If I want to wake the neighbors up, I'd fire up the Stihl *O64!

Yeah, Prestolites. They were good for their day ... sort of.

Interesting though now that we're speaking of electric boat trim and
starter motors. I ahv a 'like-new' Mercury "Dock Buster" starter made
by Delco. The Dock Buster motors were direct drive and you started the
egine by turning it one way, and to go in reverse, you killed the
engine, reversed the brush polarity through the seris of solonoids,
and started the engine in the oposite direction.

It's interesting to see an outboard starter with two oposing pinion
gears on the same shaft....

Yep, liked to hear mine idle out of the water!!- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

I wish i could find it on the net, but I remember some cycle magazine
having a run down on somebody that cranked up a V-4 OMC, laid it
horizontal with nothing but a clutch, put it in a motorcycle frame and
made a drag bike out of it. With no water cooling (That I could tell)
I wonder how many passes that thing would make before locking up?- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Not many if not allowed to cool in between! Hey, got your message,
etc. was busy as all hell, will call you when I can. And Tom's
right.......don't quit your day job!!

On Apr 21, 8:13*am, Loogypicker wrote:
And Tom's
right.......don't quit your day job!!- Hide quoted text -

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Yep, that's proof you DID get the messege.


LOL!

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On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 11:11:09 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

having a run down on somebody that cranked up a V-4 OMC, laid it
horizontal with nothing but a clutch, put it in a motorcycle frame and
made a drag bike out of it. With no water cooling (That I could tell)
I wonder how many passes that thing would make before locking up?

I can't imagine that would last long without some kind of cooling. He
may have tricked up some kind of radiator but I would be curious how
you recover the water. Outboards discharge directly into the exhaust
manifold. I suppose you could make up a different flange right at the
block to divert the water.,

The block is filled most likely.
http://www.jegs.com/p/Moroso/Moroso-...45552/10002/-1

A drag motor does not run very long at a time. 5-11 seconds for the 1/4 and
20-30 seconds in the staging area.

On Apr 21, 12:51*am, "Bill McKee" wrote:
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On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 11:11:09 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

having a run down on somebody that cranked up a V-4 OMC, laid it
horizontal with nothing but a clutch, put it in a motorcycle frame and
made a drag bike out of it. With no water cooling (That I could tell)
I wonder how many passes that thing would make before locking up?

I can't imagine that would last long without some kind of cooling. He
may have tricked up some kind of radiator but I would be curious how
you recover the water. Outboards discharge directly into the exhaust
manifold. I suppose you could make up a different flange right at the
block to divert the water.,

The block is filled most likely.http://www.jegs.com/p/Moroso/Moroso-...45552/10002/-1

A drag motor does not run very long at a time. *5-11 seconds for the 1/4 and
20-30 seconds in the staging area.

True Bill, but with the engines mdified for a racing design, extreme
RPM's and a mixture of lord knows what kind of fuels, drag engines
develop a lot of heat very quickly. I would imagine that after a few
runs or so the engines were just about junk.

On Apr 20, 12:57*pm, Tim wrote:
On Apr 20, 11:17*am, wrote:

On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 05:30:05 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

I couldn't resis, so I went out and muffed the Oli and fired it up
this morning.

Hey hold the noise down, I'm trying to sleep here. ;-)
Maybe I will crank up my table saw at 2 AM and cut up some aluminum
angle.

Oh I didn't rack it off 'much' jsut enough to get it to idle out and
it does have such a neat sound at idle. It's fun listening to it
"cackle" on every hit. Beautiful tune actually.

If I want to wake the neighbors up, I'd fire up the Stihl *O64!

Yeah, Prestolites. They were good for their day ... sort of.

Interesting though now that we're speaking of electric boat trim and
starter motors. I ahv a 'like-new' Mercury "Dock Buster" starter made
by Delco. The Dock Buster motors were direct drive and you started the
egine by turning it one way, and to go in reverse, you killed the
engine, reversed the brush polarity through the seris of solonoids,
and started the engine in the oposite direction.

It's interesting to see an outboard starter with two oposing pinion
gears on the same shaft....

I had a racing snowmobile with a 440 Hirth two cylinder engine that if
you pulled the rope getting one of the cylinders almost to TDC, then
let go of the rope, it would fire and start, backwards!

On Apr 21, 8:15*am, Loogypicker wrote:
On Apr 20, 12:57*pm, Tim wrote:





On Apr 20, 11:17*am, wrote:

On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 05:30:05 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

I couldn't resis, so I went out and muffed the Oli and fired it up
this morning.

Hey hold the noise down, I'm trying to sleep here. ;-)
Maybe I will crank up my table saw at 2 AM and cut up some aluminum
angle.

Oh I didn't rack it off 'much' jsut enough to get it to idle out and
it does have such a neat sound at idle. It's fun listening to it
"cackle" on every hit. Beautiful tune actually.

If I want to wake the neighbors up, I'd fire up the Stihl *O64!

Yeah, Prestolites. They were good for their day ... sort of.

Interesting though now that we're speaking of electric boat trim and
starter motors. I ahv a 'like-new' Mercury "Dock Buster" starter made
by Delco. The Dock Buster motors were direct drive and you started the
egine by turning it one way, and to go in reverse, you killed the
engine, reversed the brush polarity through the seris of solonoids,
and started the engine in the oposite direction.

It's interesting to see an outboard starter with two oposing pinion
gears on the same shaft....

I had a racing snowmobile with a 440 Hirth two cylinder engine that if
you pulled the rope getting one of the cylinders almost to TDC, then
let go of the rope, it would fire and start, backwards!- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

When I was a kid I had an old harley hummer which was a 165cc two
stroke and if you didn't follow through with the kick sometimes it
would run backwards. It didn't sound much diffrent running backwards,
but you found out quickly to listen before you let out on the clutch.