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Went down to Larry's Speed & Marine yesterday to pick up my drive. Larry took us back and showed us Gary Smiths Skater sporting a pair of shiney new Weisman drives :D Man, are these things bad lookin'! Naturally I forgot my camera :mad: But Bill shot a couple of pic's with his phone camera. Have to get them.
Anyway, these are fully polished. Supposedly the drives save a couple of hundred pounds of weight and use a 150 less horsepower to turn compared to the Dry Sump #6 he had on there. There are no vertical shafts, vertical motion is transferred via gears. All the machine work on these units were out there!
Craig
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I read about this in Extreme Boat Mag. I was wondering how they made out. How soon before testing? PLEASE get some pics for us!:cool:
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:eek!: :eek!: :eek!:
Looks like the cat's azz!:cool:
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Wonder what the price is and what props fit?
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Dang......that is pretty wild. I have never even heard of them until this thread. :cool:
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I am just wordering why the APBA banned them....wonder if Mercury had something to with that....sounds like a superior drive to the 6 so Merc pushed some political weight.....Ragamuffin was waxing ass with those drives.
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And no Hooters trip. Shame on you. :D
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Yeah, I asked ol' Billy boy today about the pic he shot of the drive, he promises he'll shoot them to me today :rolleyes:
The price for the drive is about 10 grand less than a #6 minus a tranny, transmission, that is ;) About 25 G's.
HD, Weisman is actually the company that came up with the dry sump #6. Then Merc incorporated it in production models.
APBA supposedly banned them because they were better and cheaper than a #6 and after enough bitching from Merc, who was a big sponsor, so long Weismans!
AZKC, you assume we didn't stop at Hooters, when in fact we did :p I posted a note about being dowmn your way, but it was a last minute deal, so I didn't think you or Chuck might see it. We'll be back!
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You went to Hooters and KC wasn't there???
KC, you feelin' all right there bud??