Re: What makes for a ‘racing’ lower unit?all t

[legendre]

@Garry

Thank you for those excellent images! Should we all just take a moment to appreciate the quality of commercial, often anonymous airbrush art of a prior era..? It’s obviously idealized (that was part of the job), but what a beautiful set of renderings still the same.

So is the small inset (top image) the short-shaft version of the same motor?

Another question – if the racing lower in the bottom image attaches to the same power head shown in the upper, what’s the deal with the much thinner tube to the aft of the drive shaft enclosure? The tube in the lower looks to be less than half the diameter of that seen in the upper image – what’s it for?