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Mercury has launched its most powerful outboard engine ever, a 600hp 7.6-litre V12 with a host of radical new innovations. We reveal its innermost secrets
For the last few years Mercury and Yamaha have been slugging it out for the title of the world’s most powerful production outboard engine, creeping up in stages from 400hp to 425hp and finally 450hp.
Now Mercury has knocked Yamaha clean out of the ring with a punch so big it’s hard to see anyone bothering to challenge them. The US engine builder’s latest launch is a monster 7.6-litre V12 outboard engine delivering a staggering 600hp and easily taking the title of world’s most powerful outboard engine curently in production.
The new Mercury monster 7.6-litre V12
To 50-something year-old sportsboat owners brought up on a diet of spluttering two-stroke oil-burners struggling to make more than 60hp, it seems an utterly outlandish proposition and yet Mercury is fully expecting to sell thousands of them, mostly as twins, triple or even quad installations. The world, it seems, cannot get enough of big outboard-engined day boats and cruisers – and it’s not just the US builders – everyone from Windy to Wally is building them. So what are the secrets behind Mercury’s new
600hp V12 and how has it managed to outsmart the opposition.
How do you create the world’s the most powerful production outboard?
The starting point for building the most powerful outboard engine in production, is an all-new narrow angle V12 block with the same 60 degree angle between its banks as the smaller V8 and V6 ranges. Naturally aspirated with quad cams, 4-valves per cylinder and indirect injection, the emphasis is on smoothness and refinement as much as maximum power. As well as the inherent natural balance of a V12 configuration, every effort has been made to reduce unwanted noise and vibrations.