With outboards, total horsepower is limited by what you can physically fit on the back of the boat-if you have a boat with quad 350s and repower with 450Rs, it’s like adding a whole extra engine.

And that horsepower number is achieved on 89-octane pump gas, so it’s not like you have to trailer your boat over to the local drag strip to fill up on 100-octane race gas. It’s also available in a 20-inch shaft, which has hilarious high-speed connotations for bass boats.Ī three-year warranty indicates that Mercury Racing is confident that the 450R isn’t unduly stressed, despite its top-of-the-food-chain power rating. The 450R is lightweight-with a 25-inch shaft, the 450R weighs 702 pounds. Which they’ve now done with the 450R, which brings a 2.4-liter twin-screw supercharger and an available Sport Master gearcase to the party. The DF225TXW four stroke is also a clean runner and certified with a 3-Star Ultra-Low Emission rating from the California Air Resources Board (CARB) and has also met the EPA 2010 standard. This four-stroke outboard has a large displacement, lots of torque and plenty of power. When Mercury introduced its new 4.6-liter V8 Verado last year, we knew it was only a matter of time before they upped the horsepower in a big way. The Suzuki DF225TXW2 V-6 four-stroke outboard is packed with technology. Here are five outboards that might well give you a reason to repower your boat with something quiet, clean, and new. If you don't need to do 40 mph or push a 30-footer, a small electric model like the Torqueedo Travel 1103C can make a lot of sense-self-contained, quiet and portable. And with range and fuel economy always an issue, new designs like the three-cylinder Evinrude E-TEC aim to hit their horsepower and torque numbers while squeezing every drop of fuel as far as it'll go.Īnd, particularly for low-horsepower outboards, electric power is becoming not only viable but preferable. Since outboards are powering increasingly large boats, there are new options for buyers looking for 350 horsepower and more. With reliability generally taken for granted by customers (warranties sometimes stretch six years, depending on promotions), the new engines push progress on two fronts: horsepower and efficiency. But lately, there's been a lot of action from every major manufacturer-Mercury, Yamaha, Evinrude and Suzuki. Outboard motors tend to evolve at the pace of the Nile crocodile, which dates to the early Pleistocene and has minimal updates for the 2019 model year.

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