Design News, April 9th, 2001
Replacing aluminum with corrosion-fighting composites helped Volvo Penta build a better stern drive
Chesapeake, VA--When engineers at Volvo Penta set out to create the company's first entirely new stern drive in more than a decade, they charted course that may be the engineering equivalent of Magellan's journey to the end of a supposedly flat earth. Rejecting forty years of conventional wisdom about marine drive construction, they steered clear of bolted aluminum and instead built the drive's structural components from adhesive-bonded composites. "Stern drives have always been made from die...
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