RTexasF
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My Sanger used a Casale V-Drive with 18% overdrive. Engine is a 402 BBC with small port closed chamber heads. Engine builder is Tim Briggs, means something in Oregon.
Carbs were 660 Center Squirters and Tim reground the linkage to make them progressive like a Double Pumper instead of all 8 barrels dumping at once. Some of you will know what this means.
Before modifying the linkage, when you put the pedal to the metal and all 8 barrels would dump at once, sometime the engine would backfire and it would throw a flame ball out the front of the scoop and past your ears.
Prop was a 17" pitch 2-blade - each time the prop makes one rotation it would propel the boat forward 17" - or that was the hope or theory.
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It takes special talent to run a flat bottom V Drive at speed. Working both the throttle and the cavitation plate at the same time requires guts, serious coordination, and a "feel" for the boat. Mike I know you paid a dear price but I appreciate the fact that you still miss your Sanger.