In-The-Red SCL 4 sale

[shifter]

Talked to Troy tonite and he is done.

Pretty sad that there is so much resistance to a small team running a 13 year old war horse with My dry-sump #6 drives.

Way to chase off new blood.

pat W

[ThrottleUp Props]

What a shame Pat!

Julie

[Sean H]

what resistance? they get to use your drives and be lighter than the rest of the field?

25. Grandfathered Boat - The old Peppers boat with Bravo drives, minimum weight 8000 pounds. The old Peppers #2 with Weisman SSM 6 drives must use 5 quarts of oil in the lower unit. Skeg dimensions must conform to OSS templates (specifications). Minimum boat weight 8000 pounds with the Weisman SSM 6 drives.

[Ryan Beckley]

I am confused on how the OSS rule book is used & enforced at an APBA certified KILO??

[Sean H]

I thought Pat was talking about racing it. I thought they ran in a sportsman class or something in their kilo run?

[Ryan Beckley]

They have never raced an OSS race.....

[Ryan Beckley]

I am learning that there drives CAN NOT hold the required 5 quarts of oil???

[Ron P]

Pat give me a call. This is the first I'm hearing of this. All I know is the old Peppers boat is specifically grandfathered in the OSS rulebook.

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Ron

[shifter]

Here it is in a nutshell.

Two guys by a 13 year old raceboat to go race.

This old raceboat is grandfathered.

This old raceboat blows a bravo/imco at the Rum Run in 07.

They convert old boat back to original equipment. Weismann #6 dry-sump and ditch the Innovation (grandfathered) engines for 525's.

Convert from 1.61 to 1.5.

They go to the kilo event and get pushed out of SCL into sportsman cat because of skeg thickness.

We developed this drive in 1993. We did the swept skeg design in 1995 because of istability at 120 plus mph. This was one of 5 designs.

We have always made our drives the same. They are dry-sump swept skeg standard. Jd Byrider has 4 more identical to these.

In 1998/99 Merc came out with their swept version. It is not the same. Last year alone 7 skeg failures in SCL that I know of for sure.

As for the oil. It is another attempt to make our drive into a wet-sump with a pump like a merc and I refuse to false advertise.

So the boat is in limbo....cannot race SCL.

I cannot recommend to them to change the lowers to the current design for .012 to .030 of an inch difference with the possiblity of failing a skeg.

pat W

[RACESDAD]

troy and pat,
call ron polli asap. we will work this out
mike

[catmando]

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