Start to Finish: Building Our 50' Skater

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11-28-2017, 03:39 PM

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Ksalmine I bet its a Transmash V12 probably the supercharged version?

I have a cross box for sale PM if your interested.

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11-28-2017, 04:01 PM

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Originally Posted by pstorti

Didn't even know if was possible to monitor all those parts wow!

I'm going to assume he's an engineer for caterpillar...if any of you have ever been to their facilities you know they do some serious r and d on everything!!!..sounds like the government has pushed most of that over into regulatory emissions BS.

11-28-2017, 04:16 PM

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Originally Posted by hogie roll

You may want to look at making a BMW V12 into a diesel. Their highest rated 3.0L diesel had 376hp and a 5400rpm redline.

Assuming most of the parts are interchangeable you could make a nice 6.0L V12. However, I would still have reservations about temps due to the duty cycle in a boat vs a light car.

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11-28-2017, 06:30 PM

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Still the best thread ever! Keep it up!

11-28-2017, 07:17 PM

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Originally Posted by AllDodge

I have really enjoyed the build and all the effort which has gone into it this far. While I'm just a guy which knows "maybe" just enough to fix things when something stops working, I'm in no way in the same league as you guys.Have been reading from the beginning and don't remember some of these comments coming up before.Sure hope some have just now found the thread and have not just been watching all along waiting for things to go wrong.

I'm pulling for ya Tyson

its a fine line between crapping on his dreams and giving him advice. I suggested he make an aluminum block and head for a 1000hp C18 way up thread but he claimed it would be too heavy at maybe ~2000lbs each.