Speedling
Jetboaters Admiral
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- Location
- Cedar Lake, IN
- Boat Make
- Yamaha
- Year
- 2008
- Boat Model
- SS
- Boat Length
- 21
Just brainstorming here... don't have the money to play, but fun to theorize.
I like the new turbo 4 cylinder from ford. Ecoboost 2.0 makes like 270 hp.
You can get aftermarket electronic setups straight from Ford to plug these things into a hot rod.
You can find the engines on Ebay and junk yards for under $2k, sometimes just over $1k.
Would there be a problem with throwing a couple of these in our boats?
It would be a bit heavier, suck more gas, make more heat, require a modified cooling system... BUT....
It would run up to 7000 rpm, eliminating the need for a gear reduction. It would be tested in their labs to have excellent qualities in extreme conditions. It would NOT require a turbo rebuild every 100 hours or whatever like the Rotax. It would create a ton of torque which in turn would allow that impeller to spin at a much higher rpm and still create the thrust!
Even if you take torque out of the equation, I have figured that you need about 5 hp per engine for 1 mph.
If I'm at 160 hp right now and going 50, then a jump to 270 is a difference of 110 hp which should equate to a 22 mph difference. Figure in some loss and you still have a 20 mph difference. That's pushing you to 70 mph guys.... That's nuts.
I don't think i'll be doing this to my boat, don't worry. Unless someone wants to buy my current engines for like 8 grand or something....
I was actually thinking about putting them into a cruiser like a 26-30 foot cuddy offshore go fast type of boat. Don't have the funds for it, but just theorizing. These guys put a ton of money into big blocks that make like 400 hp, and then like 600 hp supercharged. I don't see why you couldn't get a smaller go fast boat to be lighter with the 4 cylinders and even if you tweaked them, made 300 each, and totalled 600 hp, and then went pretty dang fast. Just theorizing..
And dreaming....
If my kids don't get into water sports soon though, it may become a reality.
I like the new turbo 4 cylinder from ford. Ecoboost 2.0 makes like 270 hp.
You can get aftermarket electronic setups straight from Ford to plug these things into a hot rod.
You can find the engines on Ebay and junk yards for under $2k, sometimes just over $1k.
Would there be a problem with throwing a couple of these in our boats?
It would be a bit heavier, suck more gas, make more heat, require a modified cooling system... BUT....
It would run up to 7000 rpm, eliminating the need for a gear reduction. It would be tested in their labs to have excellent qualities in extreme conditions. It would NOT require a turbo rebuild every 100 hours or whatever like the Rotax. It would create a ton of torque which in turn would allow that impeller to spin at a much higher rpm and still create the thrust!
Even if you take torque out of the equation, I have figured that you need about 5 hp per engine for 1 mph.
If I'm at 160 hp right now and going 50, then a jump to 270 is a difference of 110 hp which should equate to a 22 mph difference. Figure in some loss and you still have a 20 mph difference. That's pushing you to 70 mph guys.... That's nuts.
I don't think i'll be doing this to my boat, don't worry. Unless someone wants to buy my current engines for like 8 grand or something....
I was actually thinking about putting them into a cruiser like a 26-30 foot cuddy offshore go fast type of boat. Don't have the funds for it, but just theorizing. These guys put a ton of money into big blocks that make like 400 hp, and then like 600 hp supercharged. I don't see why you couldn't get a smaller go fast boat to be lighter with the 4 cylinders and even if you tweaked them, made 300 each, and totalled 600 hp, and then went pretty dang fast. Just theorizing..
And dreaming....
If my kids don't get into water sports soon though, it may become a reality.