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Traction Products, Inc.
Weismann Marine, LLC.
Oct 21, 2008
Recently we have created an account on YouTube and have been uploading tests of vehicles with Weismann Innovations. The first video of the latest "Weismann Inline Counter Revolution Concept" that we have been calling the "Stinger" is a short clip of the first shift taken from the "TommyTanic".
There are now eleven videos of this awesome drivetrain package going through initial testing preparing for the first race at the San Diego BayFair on Sept. 19th.
Dave Kutcher and Todd Petersen coming to grips with the Stinger in race trim on the way to a second place behind a Vee with 1000 more hp!
Dave and Todd had them in the turns, but they had more power to pull us on the long straights. You can see them thinking, "Where did they come from?!"
Rear shot of the WMK II drives.
Looking way down into the engine bay!
Some slight modifications were made from the original concept...
bone stock
Chevy LS7 engines,
an awesome sounding Y pipe exhaust system,
new cut down deck,
fuel tanks repositioned at the bottom of the boat and on CG,
completely new rigging all hidden within carbon fiber paneling,
an open cockpit,
four seats each with its own computer display screen,
and two Computer Controlled Semi-Automatic 6 Speed Transmissions!
The original BMF concept has two engines, inline, facing flywheel to flywheel, and sitting down in the bottom of the Vee. The reason for this is to have the engines rotate to relative to each other in opposite directions, which cancels out the torque reactions from the engines to the boat.
From the flywheels, we have two identical F-N-R transmissions, the one of the front steps out the the left, and the rear transmission steps out to the right. The output of the transmissions can be flipped. From the transmissions, the drive goes through two carbon fiber driveshafts which run under the headers of the rear engine.
At the transom the driveshafts couple to our MKII drives. Now with the new package, we have added two 6 speed semi-automatic transmissions sitting in the standoff boxes. Then as litsed above we have made many small changes, but the original BMF concept is intact.
We will update the YouTube site with more videos as they become available!
