Advice on short Alpha 1 drives
 

Hello Guys

I am looking info and advice on setting up a new project.

I will be using an Alpha 1 drive asm but want to find the shortest upper and lower boxes as possible.

Any advise would be great.
Cheers
Mick

either an Alpa ss or a tripple widgets deluxe. Be carefull with the deluxe though, if you top 88 mph there will be a flash of light and it will suddenly be yesterday's tomorrow. Though the truely troubling apsect is that you will find Micheal J Fox laying on the bow wearing nothing but a speedo.

You might want to check this out:

http://rlcboats.com/triple_digits/pr...pledigits.html

Don't try to reinvent the wheel, get an SS rebuild it with the HD gear set & shim it properly, break it in nice and easy, change the oil every ten hours, and have fun boating

I normally would agree with you completely.

I am setting up a tunnel boat with a V8 sturn drive for curcuit racing.
My aim is to get the engine mounted as low as possible.

Do imco short lowers bolt up to alpha ss upper box ?

I have looked for these out of curiosity and I do not think I have ever even seen one for sale, let alone 2. Always wondered what it was about the ss drive that made it so special and the limited production issue. Boat builders would go crazy over another 2-3 mph for the same power. If a shorter drive would give it to them, seems someone would have supplied on by now.

yeah thats the 88mph flux capacitor drive.

The alpha ss has a shorter lower. I nelieve they talk about them on donzi.net or something like that. Its been a few years since I thought about them but it may be a cle? lower or people were using some kind of merc outboard lower to make ss clones or something. Not sure how an alpha is going to like surfacing, have you thought about a blackhawk?

Thanks for the reply.
Ok so the SS has a short lower only, I had believed it had a short upper ?
I will look into a blackhawk.

We have a couple of these boats running in Australia and they are using Alpha 1 becouse they are light and only need to put 600hp into the boats to get speed.

The Alpha SS reduces the X dim by the upper housing being 2.5" shorter then a standard Alpha. The lower gearcase is a Mercury CLE offshore case. It is the upper NOT the lower that makes the height difference. The Alpha case is faster then the Bravo cases, smaller bullet.

Thank you for clearing that up for me.