Classic Australian Wooden Power Boat Association

Bob I come from a circuit racing background where nobody who is serious attempts to run wet sump engines. Dry sumping has many advantages a - can run any oil volume you wish b - properly designed you have negative sump pressure which greatly aids scavenging c - internal or external pipes drained fro...

Anyone know if the details/ history in this add are correct? any records Greg?
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Classic-timb ... SwCGVX7NO8

Anyone have an idea of what this might be? looks like cold moulded - would not have been very common in the 60's?
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/ski-boat-/26 ... SwqfNXnR2u

there are a lot of photo's of the boats taken by the TSCC (car club) photographer Jeremy if there is interest
https://jbraithwaite.smugmug.com/Thorou ... The-Boats/
including several of the Jet in detail

Made quick trip to the above display /demo day great location and big ( 8000) crowd many boats doing demo runs with a 105 MPH speed limit and apparently no noise limit! The Jet and The Classic ( headed for Tas) were on display with The Classic having a run on sat till a lost cylinder ended the weekend

Thanks for the info Bob that set up is just sweet. I guess there must have been a reasonable market for these small boxes at the time. Its hard to imagine anybody setting up to make patterns and cast gearboxes like this today. Does the Z drive even have a water jacket? or are those oil lube lines to...

Bob - yes it looks like anything was possible ( and so it should be!) If you look at Old Flame (readers boats) it has a 1600 Kent cross flow with engine reversed and I guess a V drive of some sort with the exhaust out the starboard side. Re the Z drive they used in the day - was it a specially desig...

An old post and I cant add much but an observation - did these boats run the drive from the flywheel end? because if they did Fox E is a Fiat and the other a Ford because for some reason Fiat had the exhaust on the right hand side ( looking from the flywheel end ) and all the ford twin cams right up...

A bit more info on the skiff and some pics, pic quality not very good I scanned em off some old slides.Bought for $35 in this condition in 67 - some things dont change much!

Tuffy? http://www.glen-l.com/designs/outboard/dsn-tufb.html