Why Not Volvo Penta or Vortec?
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A friend of mine had the same boat I do(Unlimited 191) for 7 years with a VP duoprop drive. I bet his boat had over 500 hours on it when he sold it and he wasn't nice to it at all. He liked to drive it hard and he liked to air it out between the Lake Michigan rollers. He never had one single problem with that drive.
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Jayhawk, use a Huber Marine transmission. I bought used transmissions and sent them to Tom Huber. Very reasonable $, good delivery, two seasons behind 735 HP with no problems. With a Bravo or VP drive you do not need a transmission. With Konrad or MC SSM drives you do need a transmission. Joe Murray
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Re: Why Not Volvo Penta or Vortec?
Originally Posted by frequentflyer
... I personally think that Volvo needs to come up with a more sporty drive.....
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Re: Why Not Volvo Penta or Vortec?
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I could not find anything about a Vortec 525HP 496 at the Marine Power site you had a link for. From what I know, Vortec-Gm Powertrain advertised in 2004 but could not deliver or produce the 525HP 496. The only ones I know about are the HP3's that Innovation built for APBA race teams. I think they were for lease only and didn't think they could be bought for 14K. I think the only real 525HP 496's available now are 496's with our Raylar HO525 kits. Just some questions?Volvo does use the same 496 as Merc. and we have several running our HO525 kits, with good results as long as the exhaust systems are upgraded.
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I could not find anything about a Vortec 525HP 496 at the Marine Power site you had a link for. From what I know, Vortec-Gm Powertrain advertised in 2004 but could not deliver or produce the 525HP 496. The only ones I know about are the HP3's that Innovation built for APBA race teams. I think they were for lease only and didn't think they could be bought for 14K. I think the only real 525HP 496's available now are 496's with our Raylar HO525 kits. Just some questions?Volvo does use the same 496 as Merc. and we have several running our HO525 kits, with good results as long as the exhaust systems are upgraded.
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Re: Why Not Volvo Penta or Vortec?
Anybody know how much a DPX setup would cost? What about a regular DP? Might be repowering a Donzi 22 Classic and that looks like it might be a good choice....
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Re: Why Not Volvo Penta or Vortec?
Originally Posted by Raylar
Jayhawk261
I could not find anything about a Vortec 525HP 496 at the Marine Power site you had a link for. From what I know, Vortec-Gm Powertrain advertised in 2004 but could not deliver or produce the 525HP 496. The only ones I know about are the HP3's that Innovation built for APBA race teams. I think they were for lease only and didn't think they could be bought for 14K. I think the only real 525HP 496's available now are 496's with our Raylar HO525 kits. Just some questions?Volvo does use the same 496 as Merc. and we have several running our HO525 kits, with good results as long as the exhaust systems are upgraded.
Ray @ Raylar
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I could not find anything about a Vortec 525HP 496 at the Marine Power site you had a link for. From what I know, Vortec-Gm Powertrain advertised in 2004 but could not deliver or produce the 525HP 496. The only ones I know about are the HP3's that Innovation built for APBA race teams. I think they were for lease only and didn't think they could be bought for 14K. I think the only real 525HP 496's available now are 496's with our Raylar HO525 kits. Just some questions?Volvo does use the same 496 as Merc. and we have several running our HO525 kits, with good results as long as the exhaust systems are upgraded.
Ray @ Raylar
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Anybody know what the average price for a Mercury Racing 525EFI is?
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Re: Why Not Volvo Penta or Vortec?
Originally Posted by C_Spray
Or these? (Never mind the diesel engines for now...)
Also, that drive (top pic) is designed to break away, had a few good articles about it in Power & Motoryacht including a report when it did come in contact with the bottom. Not pretty.
My concern is prop selection with non-merc drives or are props available with 4 or 5 blades for Volvos?
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Foutain built some boats(38F/47L that I saw) with Volvo DPX's and similar power to C-SPRAY's, and I can assure you that they went cosiderably faster that 70 mph.