Hurricane
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The MTU CR2000 is available in several sizes from the V8 to the V16.Hurricane?! What the hell are you driving?! The now correctly identified 2000's came out of a 70 foot boat capable of ~ 45knts and you are the same size, maybe a bit heavier and have 4000's(twice the size I presume ~ twice the power?) Good God! I'm floored!
Here's me looking at the 2400hp engine that's 10x the power of mine and drooling then you come rocking with a 20x more powerful one
CR2000 means a nominal 2 litres per cylinder.
Actually they are about 2,2 litres per cylinder - yes - thats more per cylinder than the average family car has in total!!
Likewise the 4000 and 8000 range are nominally 4 litres and 8 litres respectively.
Most of the time, you only see the CR2000 range on boats - even the 30m/40m ones don't tend to use the bigger ranges.
My engines are the smallest in the CR2000 range - the V8s - rated at 1200 HP each
Here they are under way:-
I have been servicing them myself - part of the condition of buying the boat was that Princess put me on an MTU course in the MTU factory in Friedrichshafen.
It was a week long and really interesting.
Here is a link to a thread that I posted back in 2009 after I got home.
MTU Engines - Quality engineering only expected from the Germans
EDIT
Just reread some of that old thread - MTU are now owned by Rolls Royce
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