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    300hp diesel outboard

    They look impressive, but no mention of price and weight!


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    Re: 300hp diesel outboard

    Been around for ages now, cost a fortune, and weigh a ton.

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    Re: 300hp diesel outboard

    could these mark the end of the inboard diesels. would be costly first up but would do a million hours if serviced routinely.

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    Re: 300hp diesel outboard

    doubt it

    compromises always get made to package a engine in a outboard
    most would be work boats as any 300hp sized pleasure craft would wan maximum deck space and duck board size
    would there be more efficiency with a shaft and rudder then dragging a leg through the water ?

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    Re: 300hp diesel outboard

    good point about efficiency, what about weight difference between the two .

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    Re: 300hp diesel outboard

    went to the web site, weight is 375 KG

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    Re: 300hp diesel outboard

    TBH I've never understood the fascination with outboards over inboards here...especially with some of the huge rigs getting around. IMHO they lack the class of a V8 petrol or 4/6 cyl diesel setup.
    Yeah you lose some deck space but it gives you a nice table for your gin and tonic. Probably showing my age.

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  8. #8

    Re: 300hp diesel outboard

    There are several breeds of big diesel outboards around now
    Got me stuffed why they don't look at the smaller sized range.
    Jack.

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    Re: 300hp diesel outboard

    Tuna because they are utilising car engines

  10. #10

    Re: 300hp diesel outboard

    Quote Originally Posted by gazza2006au View Post
    Tuna because they are utilising car engines
    So did/are Honda, there's is just a marinised civic or accord engine...... just sayin

    Col

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    Re: 300hp diesel outboard

    Watch this space for a special build we are commencing in 2020 with twin 200hp diesel outboards

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    Re: 300hp diesel outboard

    all modern outboards are some variation of a car engine so whats they are using car engines got to do with the conversation (well except the etecs)

    a diesel outboard is in a less unsulated noise space
    big boats have plenty of room under the deck for more insulation seperate cooling systems and so on

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    Re: 300hp diesel outboard

    just different uses.
    Diesel outboards offer some rather unique range and single fuel benifits that petrol dont at this stage. that and torque.
    The boat we are building is to be paired with a larger mothership based out of NZ. which will carry 9000lt of diesel. so as a single fuel mothership it makes sense to have diesel outboards

    Marine outfitting solutions
    www.moosemarine.com.au

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    Re: 300hp diesel outboard

    We run diesel outboards at work. They're a mercury 175hp.
    They're absolute rubbish......
    They're a 2 stroke, spark plug diesel believe it or not. They're a prick to start, smoky as all #### and thirsty.......
    Only reason we run them is so we don't need to take separate ULP.
    https://www.mercurymarine.com/en/au/...stralian-navy/
    We borrowed them off the navy, wondered why navy would give us free boats, found out why pretty quickly.

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    Re: 300hp diesel outboard

    It's basically an optimax, converted to run on low sulphur diesel. they say it shares 95% of the parts from the petrol optimax.
    interesting tecnology, if you'd call it that......LOL

    Col

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