I never heard about the bucket list before....
....But I think I'll go ahead and use my pickup bed.;):D Besides...They'll think twice before kicking that.
I like the digs Ron. The "green prop" could be fun to play with, but the other stuff will be cool too when we get back on track. Joeflow has a lot on his plate now with all the car racing successes he's had with his valves.
Twin coupled 4 cylinder Mercs seen here!
Tim:
Sometime back in the 1960s when the Anzanis were into a transmission coupled setup to make a 4 cylinder class C Alky like the type Floyd Harris Jr. campaigned on a runabout it appears that Ray Nydahl was also into something similar using 2 Merc 4 cylinder engines the same way and there is a picture of him with some ladies here on BRF with that coupled Merc engine in the background. Last year I looked at the smoked looking Merc oriented but unfinished mounting adapter of 3/4 inch aluminum that was in Tenney's garage fire back in 1967 but with all I got I paid no attentions (stupidly so) to the odds and sods of aluminum that came with the stuff. It looked weird until I realized with stud patterns guides that some one there was planning to mount 2 Merc 4 cylinder engines on that adapter to an Anzani engine coupler with one engine facing forward and one rearward so as to fit the coupler input configurations and differences to fit the 2 Mercs together successfully with some kind of pipes facing rearward as there are not indicators of exhausts vents going down through the adapter and who wants exhaust gases coming over the transom and into the boat!
Accoding to NOA rules at the time, two coupled Merc Mark 30s would have made a legal class F engine back then. If that was their thinking it would have been an 8 cylinder entry in Alky racing. More about the coupled twin Mercs that are unidirectional behind Ray Nydahl still remain a mystery for now. I would sure like to learn more.
850 Modified...........hmmmmmmmmmmm!
A Merc 44 - 4 carb with a made for racing front case in 850 Modified.
That is giving up a large chunk of displacement with its power but getting some good engineering and reliability from the well proven Merc 44 blocks. Every time I see anything much about the larger Merc 4 cylinder engines used in 850 class, the newer direct charged versions not unlike the Merc 2 carb 3 Holers they too, these 4 cylinder engines seemed to have somekind of piston scoring problems probably related to heat. Any time I have seen one for sale in the past they have had some kind of piston problems. Maybe there is a niche here for the Merc 44s gone further outside of FE rules with custom made for Alky racing multicarb front cases. Still there are going to be very few doing it and definitely less going that way than Tim's route to make a 4 carb doable rule meeting FE Merc 44. There is something nice about AOF rules in that if you come up with an engine that is unusual, but meets standarized displacement rules, out of courtesy to the racers with them the AOF has fit them in with some flexability with other racers with speed similar engines and give you a race. I am not sure but NBRA might also do such a coutesy but not to my knowlege the APBA or CBF though I stand to be corrected anytime.