KS&W and Second Effort Surface Drives

chewiekw · 04-13-2008, 12:13 AM

Can anyone tell me about the history of these companies? I know Sal and Willie were the owners of KS&W hence the S & W and I think the K was Keith?

I don't know much about Second Effort Surface Drives other then they looked a lot like Arneson's drives...Was Sal and Willie rebranding them?

Thanks for any info...
Scott

Rik · 04-13-2008, 08:37 PM

SE was Gary Garbreich's (sp) company.

Gary was, amongst other places, once employed by Arneson. Some how Gary got a licencing agreement to make the Arneson Surface Drive that you are referring to from Borg/Warner.

The SE 1600 and the SE 1000 which respectfully meant 16" and 10" drop box drives. When Gary left CA for FL he took the tooling from Arneson and thus they are basically identical other than a bearing or seal size.

The drive was referred to as the 1600 and at the same time the ASD7 by Arneson back in the day.

The SE had a small stainless steel plate on them that said "--Arneson Drive -- Second Effort Performance Products-- "

KS&W needs a separate thread as there are a lot of individual characters involved in that company alone. They rigged a lot of race boats back in the hey day. Some with Arnesons some with Mercury.