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400 hp Mercury diesel outboard is real!

10-02-2007, 09:38 AM

Fr. Frank

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Re: 400 hp Mercury diesel outboard is real!

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I bet that baby crosses the $50k line...

I doubt it. You can pick up a used low hour series 250 Rolls Royce/Allison turbine for under $6K. New ones are in the $17K-20K range. I think it should come in below $30K total.

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...I bet it can suck some fuel too.

Yeah. It'll do that. This turbine in aircraft has been set up to produce as much as 560 hp. Can you imagine a pair of 560 hp outboards, each weighing under 400 lbs, mounted on the back of a Seavette?

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