Jason Johnson

Take a closer look at the monstrous 2,200-hp engines from Alexi Sahagian and the crew from Boostpower USA...

http://speedonthewater.com/new-boats...p-engine-.html

precisiondetails

Is that 140k a piece? Cause if it is wow... But I figure for both it would be a little on the low side.

weekend@burnies

Lot of low production or custom parts=$$$
Pretty good price for 1800 though

professor_speed

and Merc is talking trash with there 1700's, That is one crazy engine. Btw Sonny's has 2150hp 1000cid NA engine

Matt Trulio

For the record, Merc isn't talking at all about its "1700." Try to find a quote or comment from anyone at Mercury Racing and you'll come up blank. Just saying.

Nice job, Alex and the crew at Boostpower.

professor_speed

Yeah I re read This Shame On me http://www.***************.com/conte...ine-miami.html Looks like the Writer is talking trash for Mercury.

Again Nice Job to Boost Power. With the exotic power plants that find there way in boats I'm surprised That "Mountain motors" are not more common. Sonnys has a 1200hp NA endurance engine. It seems boost power could have the marine market cornered on "Mountain" marine engines.

Matt Trulio

No shame at all, professor. I made my point because when people inside Mercury Racing leak proprietary information, accurate or otherwise, they put their jobs at stake. That kind of stuff is taken very seriously in Fond Du Lac. And that's why I wanted to be clear.

RebarBox

2,200 HP is VERY impressive!

But, seems at 1,800 - 2,200 HP you would have to really think about a highly possible failure of engine, drive (#6 or surface) and even the prop at speed. The question has been asked many times - how fast is too fast? I guess it's all in the hand of the throttle man.

Matt Trulio

At this point in time, power is not the limiting factor in the how fast is too fast discussion—hull design and construction are. There are already turbine engines in boats that make more power than that—think T-55s at 3,000 hp.

The limiting factor right now is hull design. John Cosker says he designed the 50 Mystic catamaran as a "200-mph boat," meaning he believes that in the right conditions it can handle speeds up to, and maybe a bit over, 200 mph. Peter Hledin also says he can build a boat that can handle 200 mph. I believe them both.

But neither is saying he can build a boat that can handle going much faster.

Someone smart once said that you could get a brick to run 100 mph if you put enough power in it. That's probably true, but who the hell would want to drive it?

Of course, there are other aspects of this discussion such as safety and responsibility to others on the water, but those are other matters completely.

I have been 170 mph in a boat with Mercury Racing 1350s. I don't need to do it again for a lot of reasons. But the really fun part about big power, at least for me, comes in the form of acceleration. And from the people I know who own boats that have it, just knowing you have that kind of power in your hand is pretty cool in and of itself.

As Hledin has told me many times, he builds boats that can reach speeds their owners will never got close to approaching.

benjen

How fast is too fast? No such thing. Everything has a way of catching up........in this case the hulls. Look at Top Fuel Dragsters. To make things safer and slow them down as well they cut the quarter mile to 1000 feet. Now they are running in the 3.80 range and the speeds are right back up to the 320's with an occasional 330.