KAAMA racing teem
 

I just bought a1965 bellanca airplane n8889R and was looking through the old receipts and found one from KAAMA racing teem, 936 sunset drive costa mesa Ca. 92627 signed by John Connor, dated 7/20/1981.
He must have liked airplanes also.

I use to work for Kaama, and have flown in that plane a few times.

WOW that is so Cool.

What'd you do with Kaama?

Still a good address. Home of Archer Marine.

It is still a pretty good plane, just need to do some touch up.
Maybe I will have a chance to fly it to one of the reunions.

I worked at Kaama for a little over six years. My main job was engine quality control. I dynoed all of the performance engines,checked for leaks etc.

The engines that came in mine were from Innovation Marine. Seemed like good engines and lasted a long time. I heard there were some problem engines though? What's the inside story on the different engines used over the years?

I'm not exactly sure what you are asking for. Kaama did not want to get in to the engine business. They only wanted to sell drives. Boat builders didn't want just drives. They wanted a complete engine/drive package. So therefore Kaama had to supply engines. We used the basic Chevrolet 454ci/405hp long block, and did some modifcations for different horse power applications. Although Paul Pfaff did build some of our higher horsepower engines. Hope this helps.

I am having a repower of a 40 year old boat right now and the only choice for me was Innovation Marine. The boat is the very first 24 foot Banana Boat with a sport deck we made.

My son found it a few years ago and he has been restoring it slowly. We are taking out the big block and putting in a new Innovation Marine small block with injection and fresh water cooling. We expect higher speeds with the small block than the big block we taking out. Innovation has some really good people and products.