turbo diesel marine power

ha, i disconected myself and have never seen that video, that boat is one of the reasons Im in business for myself, he did mention on the lake Erie run and i remember saying it to him except in my words "this mter fr is going to break in half" I always got bumped for bigger names which was fine with me cause i got free helicopter rides. but its in ink on the toledo to buffalo run. i can remember one time the exhaust pipes were cracked and we were scheduled to run at 7:00 that morning. I found a guy to weld them in St. Petersburg at 10:00 that night, we decided to tip a few...a few, we went to some sht hole and welded these stainless pipes up eliminating the flex where they were cracked, i got in at 4:30 am, and at 5:30 the owner is calling me to clean the sea strainer. its 36 nylock nuts that are only accessible with a 1/4 ratchet. he was screaming at me because i couldnt find 6" stainless flex tube at midnight. im undoing these nuts and he is screaming.
I looked at him and i repeat...f you and th fin horse you rode in on, also doing this in front of the Cat execs.
that leveled the playing field and he never screamed at me again.
among all this i was running his service department. do i like boats? when i get paid to fix them lol

Eric, thanks for sharing your knowledge, as you only mention Ford I take it GM is just too powerful.
If that Banks engine is as good as it looks Diesel Ski boats would be hard to beat.

Kris I think your right too, I do like the idea of diesel but that turbo one has got to come in around $20,000 then there is this problem with all that low end power, I'm no expert on props or how much the prop shaft can take but I'm guessing a 1 inch shaft with a taper is not the one with the pitch you would run on the prop.
Then you have the gearbox/drive if that could take it too, if not more work for Eric.

As for my tub shall be back on it more now finished all my diggers and dumper truck rebuilds will post something I am trying that you may use on your boat when the time comes the guys will soon tell me if its rubbish idea.

But you may have seen on a post I have the upholstery sorted out, got the idea off here

There you go Kris its just ended with no bids time to make an offer.

300hp Diesel

Of course Roger, if you put it that way... Let's start to look around for a diesel engine for my boat then!! LOL

It would be very cheap indeed. And since my wife owns a sandwich and snack bar, we could immediatly reuse our old oil in the boat. Saves us the weekly trip to the recycling park!

Man, that looks like a great engine!!

But I don't think it will become as popular as one thinks for ski boats over here, cause most ski boats run on LPG in these parts, still a lot cheaper than diesel (and also very environmentally friendly)...

you could really make one of these boats scream with a duramax in it, if they could only come up with an efficient troublefree varible pitch prop,

that is beautiful

Seb just found some more pic's still looking for the turbo one.

that is nice...nice ss manifolds... the one in the picture is for a stern i/o configuration..I wonder if a bobtail or DD config is available? so how much do they ask? 15k or so?

I would say there is about 10 years left on gas engines, they too will be memories,
Damn good time for CC to crack the whip on the R and D department, put a couple of these boats at the Masters and everybody would want one, you go down a whole new avenue with diesel engines, you could have power settings customized for Barefooting or for tubing, or then for wakeboarding and at the end of the day you will burn half of the fuel, A few years back I re-powered a 38 Chris, pulled the BBC's, installed 3116 cats, the end result: 11 mph faster over factory rated speed and almost exactly half gph fuel burned (less)...need more be said?

8122pbrainard wrote: Craig, You're a engineer so I'm surprised with your comment. With a calculated surface area of all friction points and the known coefficients of those areas, it's easy.

I guess my thinking on it was on a scale this large, there has got to be some grossly large error between theoretical & actual values.

C-Bass wrote: 8122pbrainard wrote: 65 'cuda wrote: 5.6 million lb/ ft of torque! I'd like to see the dynamometer they use to measure the Torque!! I know it's a calculated figure!! How do they have any idea how much friction loss there is in that thing?

Craig,
You're a engineer so I'm surprised with your comment. With a calculated surface area of all friction points and the known coefficients of those areas, it's easy.

Diesel technology has changed so much in the last 20 years, computer controlled injectors that fire twice, valves controlled by solenoids to change opening times, many innovations...(no camshafts)
i was on tug a couple months ago, too meet epa regulations the engine was running at 1500 horse and once certified by them, they were turned back up with the push of a couple buttons to the 1900 hp range....cant do that with a gas engine, very fuel effiecient and pollution friendly

8122pbrainard wrote: 65 'cuda wrote: 5.6 million lb/ ft of torque! I'd like to see the dynamometer they use to measure the Torque!! I know it's a calculated figure!!

Which makes you wonder how they can claim its efficiency. How do they have any idea how much friction loss there is in that thing?

And to Eric's comment about evolution towards diesels...definitely true...and it's a good thing for me! (read: employed by diesel mfg'er)