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ShinerBock
Explorer
Sep 08, 2017

Breaking point: How much power can your diesel handle?

Although most diesel owners on this site are of the mindset that any added power will damage an engine and they will probably never push their engine to these power levels, there might be a few here t...
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blt2ski
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Sep 12, 2017
Saw a boat the other day with twin 370 HP 6.5 GM diesels in it! Another the sales group claimed their were two 350HP 6.5 duramax motors in it! LOL!

Penninsular diesel in Michigan has been taking some of the V8 diesels and getting some semi crazy HP out of some of them.......Then some folks put the motor in land based yachts........

As noted, the real issue can be other components, along with the GM 6.5's case, COOLING! Been there did that done that one!

Marty

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