I think your Dmax would be the same as a BT50 or the like! a 'cruiser would probably be the best, not sure on how legal though.
Hey guys. Any owners of 2300 noosa cats. What does it weigh on trailer? I'm looking at survey built one. I'm guessing about 3.2 tonne. What do you tow with? I have dmax which could only do ramp work I woukdnt tow it on highway. Might need to go a cruiser. Anyone towing with rangers/bt50 up highway? It's a survey built on steel trailer tri axle.
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I think your Dmax would be the same as a BT50 or the like! a 'cruiser would probably be the best, not sure on how legal though.
Sounds more Duramax than Dmax
Perhaps you could ring Wayne & ask him?
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Shoot Soulfish a pm. Think he said his is close to 4 ton loaded on the trailer. The cruiser needed the full lovells upgrades to tow legally.
Have a 2016 Bt 50 towing a 6.2kc which at a guess would be around 3-3.5t loaded for fishing, tows fine at 90kph, never bothered to go faster!
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My 2300 on his lighter weight stainless trailer weighs 3.2 full loaded fuel etc
with twin 150s
from weigh bridge
tows easily and stable with a 2016 ford ranger and legal
soulfish has 2700 or 3000 model
Does the ranger tow it well at highway speeds?
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Anyone own a 660nc or 2300/24000 and are able to give an indication of fuel economy.
Reading all the test reports on the NC website and they seem to get fairly crappy economy. This is going off 3-4 tests with various 150hp outboards.
At 4500 it says they are running around 50-52km/h doing around 60l hour combined.
That's 0.8km/litre.
This was for verado/merc and 150 Yamaha.
That's fairly shitty economy really . Also fairly ordinary speeds. 4500 rpm for 52km/h isn't that great for offshore boat.
The reports say the best they get is 1.2km per l at 3000rpm doing 35km. But what's the point in that?
I would have expected with 150 4 strokes should get about 1.2km/litre around the 4500-5000 mark.
Anyone care to share their figures?
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I have self imposed speed limit of 90 no matter what road I on
trailer stamped max speed 100 anyways
might go 100 if I was driving a f250
fuel average fir me is always just worse than 1:1
so if I do 100 km I use 105l of fuel
combination driving fast, troll etc
unless weather very bad and u pushing into it then a bit more
always this using digital fuel gauges and 4 blade props on my twin 150s
I have a 660NC with twin 115 efi four strokes. On the bridge with 100ltr fuel is 3200kg with standard NC trailer, Add 450ltr esky space of ice and another 400ltr fuel (500 total) and gear and i think you get the picture.
Fuel eco on big loaded trips is around 1.25ltr per km at 5000rpm at 24knts consistantly over around 350km per trip. Smaller day trip with less weight onboard is a bit better economy.With 115's the top speed is 32knts but a set of 135mercs or 150hp yammy's would be ideal as the 115hp is just ok. I swing 13.5x15 solas props.
To get a 660 or a 2300 series to be consistantly averaging 1ltr per km would be an awesome machine but would have to have new motors i would think to achieve that.
Justin
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[QUOTE=Flex;1636854]Anyone own a 660nc or 2300/24000 and are able to give an indication of fuel economy.
Reading all the test reports on the NC website and they seem to get fairly crappy economy. This is going off 3-4 tests with various 150hp outboards.
At 4500 it says they are running around 50-52km/h doing around 60l hour combined.
That's 0.8km/litre.
This was for verado/merc and 150 Yamaha.
That's fairly shitty economy really . Also fairly ordinary speeds. 4500 rpm for 52km/h isn't that great for offshore boat.
The reports say the best they get is 1.2km per l at 3000rpm doing 35km. But what's the point in that?
I would have expected with 150 4 strokes should get about 1.2km/litre around the 4500-5000 mark.
Anyone care to share their figures?
G'day
Just by way of comparison, albeit a little lighter with less torque, we have a KC2400 with 140's and we constantly get 1km per litre, slightly better on a long run at speed in chop. This is actual usage, not gauges. We usually run with about 350l of fuel and 3 pob. This 1lpkm seems pretty constant with various KC2400's I've read about, although a mate has one with 135 honda's and reckons he gets better than that. So those figures above for a bit heavier cat with bigger block engines seem about right to me. From memory we get about 50kph at around 4200rpm usually. You can cover a lot of water at that speed, especially when you can sit down and enjoy it. Hopefully this info is of some interest
Cheers
Rod