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johnrobertson · Jul 20, 2019

I had lost my mentor of 35 years who taught me how to and what to. His widow had no use for all his boats and guess I had to step up and buy them all from her. Now I have another 25+ boats quite a few engines lots new and several used and some I have no idea. My problems now are to identify what they are and if they are good for modern boats. Can you all give me heads up on what some of the things are?

Mike Hughes · Jul 20, 2019

Well so far, you got some real nice motros there. Those will do fine with what is running these days.
Mike

Samuel Hagan JR · Jul 20, 2019

The look like CMB VAC’s.

FloridaScaleBoater · Jul 20, 2019

johnrobertson said:
I had lost my mentor of 35 years who taught me how to and what to. His widow had no use for all his boats and guess I had to step up and buy them all from her. Now I have another 25+ boats quite a few engines lots new and several used and some I have no idea. My problems now are to identify what they are and if they are good for modern boats. Can you all give me heads up on what some of the things are?

If you can't find a good use for them, I can!!!
Just kidding, but not really, they aren't the "latest & greatest" but still real good engines.
If you happen to have some CMB 21 Valvola Red Heads I'd like to talk to ya

johnrobertson · Jul 21, 2019

I have some others that are Rossi.

FloridaScaleBoater · Jul 21, 2019

johnrobertson said:
I have some others that are Rossi.

Naw, that one's no good either,,,,just send it to me.
KIDDING!!! looks to me like you scored.
What you have shown so far is good quality stuff

Brandon Atwell · Jul 21, 2019

That’s 3 for 3 on some killer engines, you’ll be just fine.

FloridaScaleBoater · Jul 21, 2019

Do you plan to offer any of the boats or engines for sale John.

johnrobertson · Jul 21, 2019

Per rules I cant sell, at least yet. Not enough messages and or I haven't been on the site long enough to sell anything. How about this? Have other boxes I haven't opened yet. There should be several hundred props in here somewhere.

Brandon Atwell · Jul 21, 2019

The black head Rossi’s are older engines. Not especially competitive today.
The Blue Head CMB VAC’s from the first pictures are within 5 years old, still very strong motors and still very competitive.
The Novarossi .67 is the newest design, although you may want to check with Ron Shaw with Novarossi USA and make sure it has the updated Rod in it.
The Novarossi .21 is that engine lines hot 20 engine at the moment.

You stumbled upon a very, very good collection of engines it seems. If you have any questions me or some of the other guys on here can help you sort out props pipes and engines!

johnrobertson · Jul 21, 2019

Brandon Atwell said:
The black head Rossi’s are older engines. Not especially competitive today.
The Blue Head CMB VAC’s from the first pictures are within 5 years old, still very strong motors and still very competitive.
The Novarossi .67 is the newest design, although you may want to check with Ron Shaw with Novarossi USA and make sure it has the updated Rod in it.
The Novarossi .21 is that engine lines hot 20 engine at the moment.

You stumbled upon a very, very good collection of engines it seems. If you have any questions me or some of the other guys on here can help you sort out props pipes and engines!

Just so many questions as the last engines I worked with were ops.45 and a .21 p5 Picco. This is adding to my learning curve!

johnrobertson · Jul 21, 2019

Big engine with a quick change insert. P90 good for a 50" deep v?

Brandon Atwell · Jul 21, 2019

johnrobertson said:
Big engine with a quick change insert. P90 good for a 50" deep v?

Possibly as a play boat? I’m not extremely familiar with Monos, but I believe the gas monos themselves are in the 50-52 range.
A 90 mono is typically around 45 inches, so the 50 inch would be a tad big for racing.

johnrobertson · Jul 22, 2019

Brandon Atwell said:
Possibly as a play boat? I’m not extremely familiar with Monos, but I believe the gas monos themselves are in the 50-52 range.
A 90 mono is typically around 45 inches, so the 50 inch would be a tad big for racing.

Have an old v might be good for it.

johnrobertson · Jul 22, 2019

Have several of these little Rossi engines most with boxes but no paper work. How can I set up the carb needles?

johnrobertson · Jul 23, 2019

FloridaScaleBoater said:
Do you plan to offer any of the boats or engines for sale John.

Yes.

johnrobertson · Jul 23, 2019

Rossi 40. How do these work for competition?

johnrobertson · Jul 23, 2019

Found some more .21 engines.

johnrobertson · Jul 23, 2019

Found a Rossi .90 thought it was a smaller engine. It looks a lot different then the Picco engine.

Brandon Atwell · Jul 23, 2019

The Rossi .40’s are also some older engines, my dad runs their outboard engine. Not the latest and greatest, but fun nonetheless.
Two more great .21 engines. Looks like a 35Plus21, which is just won the heat racing national championship at the internats with! The Second looks to be a keep .21, essentially a wrap around exhaust version of the direct drive from earlier. Both highly competitive.
The Rossi .91 is again an older motor, not too familiar with those.

The blue head engine from earlier looks like an older Novarossi? Those slide barrel carbs are a struggle to setup in a boat, although technically they are a superior carb design. I have seen people run them.

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