You resemble a boat??

Looking good!

Good taste NEVER goes out of style...

Stop by Chesapeake Bay on your way back to NC. We can compare rigging notes!!

Funny you mention that, I got a call inviting me to Rock the Bay the end of Aug. I'm going to have to look into that!

Looking Sweet, I'll have to drive up to the lake and watch you test it out!! Good luck and awesome project. Bill

I hope to get the opportunity to sea trial it w/ Skater & Ilmor when I pick it up but if not you are welcome to join me here in NC we can boat into November & often see 60's=70's in Jan too.

Thats weak. We in Michigan boat well into November and often see low 50's as the high........
We actually have these sweet facemask's we wear!!

Hot damn! Looking good- gotta love it when a plan comes together. Helluva cool project- thanks for taking time to document it and share.

NASCAT - We're doing a five-day event with NJPPC on the Chesapeake from August 19-23. Come and do that one; then you'll REALLY see the Bay...

Looking good. I admire that you're in a position to do this with primarily two tools: a phone and a checkbook!

I wound up using those as well, but also everything in the shop from a hammer to a millling machine and everything in between. Re-rigs are hard work, no matter where you're coming from and where you're going to. At least you'l have a bulletproof drivetrain now!

(I see the Cat In The Hat has crashed another plane. One of these days his luck will run out, and life will get a little easier for you guys at HMS.)

Here's my data:

Uncle Dave: “a # 6 takes between 80 & 100 HP to turn”
Data: a dry sump six @ 6,000 rpm input speed consumes 12 hp and a BAM Super Cyborg @ 6,000 rpm consumes 25 hp. That is a total of 37 hp in a shiftable consumer set-up like a 1075SCi. (Even in the old days of the wet-sump Kiekhaefer drive, the total loss through a hydraulic transmission was about 70 hp.)

Uncle Dave: “Ive [sic] seen bravo #'s around 40-55”
Data: a Bravo XR @ 5,200 rpm consumes 25 hp at full lub fill.

Uncle Dave: “NXT is probably at or better than a bravo- maybe not.”
Data: dry sump NXT drive @ 6,000 rpm consumes 11 hp. An NXT transmission consumes 7 hp. That’s a worst case total of 18 hp in a shiftable consumer set-up like a 700SCi.

Uncle Dave’s second hand report: Dustin Whipple has been testing merc 6 & 700's and says they simply dont [sic] meet the HP spec out of the box the last 700 was like 30 HP down in stock form.
Data: The last four 700SCi’s across Merc’s dynos pulled 705, 708, 705 and 717 (ISO Standard 3046) corrected bhp. The last two 600SCi’s pulled 632 and 624 ISO corrected bhp.

On dyno numbers, professional engineers apply correction factors to normalize for temperature and humidity. Also, they "soak" the engine at WOT to get stable operating coolant and oil pressures and temperatures - yielding realistic and repeatable data. Flash "run and grab" data points, like one sees on YouTube, are not professional methods. Merc Racing is ISO certified in all its dyno and production methods.

Uncle Dave, all I asked for was data to substantiate your claims. The loss numbers you stated for the Merc drives were simply not factual. Moreover, they were grossly overstated. That's why I called BS (If not under these circumstances, then when?). I believe the Ilmor Indy could be 10-14 hp loss - that's credible (but I don't have that data) - then add a transmission.

As for the rest of your personal slam, I don't deserve it and I won't dignify it with a further response.

And NASCAT, I hope your project turns out well. Looks good so far!