Tom has been a chief engineer with the MEBA — the Marine Engineers’ Beneficial Association — for twenty years. The work is everything you’d expect: redundant systems, no margin for guessing, and engines large enough that a wrong torque spec doesn’t just inconvenience you — it strands a ship.
Off the water, Tom has been drag racing and hot rodding his entire life. He’s built multiple cars north of 2000 horsepower and a long list of 1000-horsepower daily drivers — the kind of builds that take a real engineer to keep running, not just put together.
The aftermarket performance industry is wide and deep on V8s and big-cube engines. Walk down to 223cc, 500cc, 740cc, and 999cc territory and the shelf goes empty. The big brands don’t build for the small end of the curve because the unit volume isn’t there, so small-engine performance has been left to YouTubers and backyard tinkerers selling generic Amazon-grade electronics with a logo slapped on.
Steamer Power is the opposite of that. The product line is built to the standard Tom holds his engine room to: it works, it doesn’t break, the math is right. The flagship, Superheat, turns the engine’s flywheel into a motor/generator and gives you instant electric horsepower on top of whatever the engine is already making. That’s what twenty years of staring at electrical-mechanical systems on a working scale gets you.