Six hundo

[5575]

And some guy in Florida is rolling his eyes.. ha ha

 

[raider]

600 seems crazy on an inland boat, yet you can drop 850 hp and 3 car seats in a 3500# car and hit the road...

thanks uncle - and lawyers...

 

[eyexer]

two years from a turbine outboard

 

[Davy Crockett]

I'd want some sort of sonar/radar that could detect surface clutter ahead of the boat if I had a fast one. I've saw some mighty big floating trees/logs out there that are almost invisible until you are right on them. That would be a game changer.

 

[SDMF]

.....but why?

That same question was asked when most boats were made of wood and had 5HP tillers with no reverse and a lever for the throttle instead of and indexing throttle on the handle, reverse, and 50HP.

That same question was asked when a 150HP Limit was implemented on bass boats in tournaments, and then again when that limit was removed.

 

[westwolfone]

If you had 600hp to play with, it would make more sense to build a boat with a car motor or two in it.
Like the big river boats out west.

600hp outboard is cool though, probably rip up a few transoms

 

[RustyTackleBox]

I'm sure that outboard is a car motor... my 150hp is nearly a car motor

 

[Auggie]

Big question is what is the price tag gonna be on that summa bitch. I don't even know what to guess.

Rule of thumb is $100/1hp.

 

[sl1000794]

Couldn't use it out here in northern California. I'm lucky if I can get my 22' Sea Swirl up to 17/18 knots and drop over on plane with the seas that we normally have!

 

[SLE]

Very few outboards have much in common with there car engine counter parts, there are a few exceptions but not many. The reason why is simply due to duty cycle. Outboards see what would be considered extreme duty in the automotive world. Mercury's durability testing use to require a 500 hour run at WOT, and that was like 10 years ago. Most car engines would never survive. Think of it this way, even when cruising, my outboard is running between 3,500 and 4,500 rpm. On your car or truck, even pushing hard down the interstate doesn't yield much over 2k rpm, maybe 3k rpm on a gas engine powered pickup towing something. Yeh, there are some short stints of higher rpm but on average they lead a pretty easy life compared to most outboards. Duty cycle is the same reason when you buy a 4500-5500 series pickup, they are de-tuned compared to the 2500-3500 series. Same reason GM still uses the 6.0 in the heavy duty trucks instead of the 6.2. Sure the 6.2 make more power and torque, but under severe duty it won't survive like the old cast iron 6.0. Frankly I think outboards of today are pretty impressive, your basically getting a mild race engine that's made to survive several thousand hours and has excellent emissions and drive-ability.

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Thinking out-loud, last year I made a 30+- mile (one -way) run seven weekends in a row to a honey hole that I pretty much had to myself on the Sakakawea, 600 hp and a big gas tank sounds nice, lol! FYI, for all the complaining I do about how windy our state is, that fact I was able to make the run that many weekends in a row tells me we had a pretty decent summer! And that's considering I don't have a 21' tournament boat in my garage!

 

[watson]

It would be fun to have on the back and use the hp whenever you wanted, but for this part of the country it'd be about as practical as driving a formula race car to work