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Old 30-11-2016, 13:39   #46
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Here you go. 12hp and only 147 lbs! I'm sure that can be adapted in to an outboard

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Does Klaxon still make them in Australia? My understanding when I looked into it 15 years ago was that diesel outboards would not meet US emissions standards and hence were no longer on the US market.
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Yours that ran on kerosene was a real Diesel, I flew models for many years, yet never saw a real Diesel, I think they are rare.
The ones that ran on alcohol, nitromethane and back in the day castor oil, are glow ignition engines, not Diesels.
No. Mine was NOT a glow plug motor. Compression ignition only , Elfin 1.5 cc ran on ether and castor oil. DIESEL. My uncle gave it to me, At the time he was a design engineer with Daimler Benz in germany, knew his stuff as I later did also with Mercedes Benz. Callled him this morning, confirmed diesel. I did have other glow plug motors too. The Elfin WAS diesel.
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Yours that ran on kerosene was a real Diesel, I flew models for many years, yet never saw a real Diesel, I think they are rare.
The ones that ran on alcohol, nitromethane and back in the day castor oil, are glow ignition engines, not Diesels.
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If you search eBay for 'model airplane diesel' you'll find lots of diesels. You can know they're real diesels by their screws in the tops to change their compression, instead of a glow plug.

It stands: Small lightweight diesel engines are feasible and old hat. Why can't we have small diesel outboards.
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That's not always true. When it was launched in 2008, the 2L Subaru boxer diesel was actually smaller, lighter, more powerful and more economical than its petrol cousin
Subaru probably cut too many corners as they had a lot of crankshaft failures in the first two years (I know because I've had one of them).

No good for an outboard, but potentially a good inboard for a powerboat owing to the low CoG of the boxer format.
Sure you take a gas engine make some modifications to run as a diesel but as Subaru and Oldsmobile (remember the V8 diesel) found out, they don't last very long unless you redesign the block to handle the extra compression.
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Many new engine designs such as the new Jaguar designs use the same engine blocks for petrol and diesel versions. I guess it's not surprising when the petrol versions need to handle 20psi plus if boost. Third last paragraph if you are interested...

http://europe.autonews.com/article/2...ngenium-family

Many modern diesels neeed turbos to make them perform. Is it feasible to turbo charge an outboard?
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I don’t see how the Diesel engines in general will be able to meet the IMO 3 or the Inland Waterway Stage V emission requirements that begin in 2019, without major changes. The .1 particulate and 2.01 g/KWH NOx requirement will require exhaust after treatment. That won’t package well to an already large outboard. The new regulations do not differentiate between petrol and diesel or outboard vs inboard. Once again the activists are going to hurt the Marine industry.
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[QUOTE=aklstw. Once again the activists are going to hurt the Marine industry.


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Many modern diesels neeed turbos to make them perform. Is it feasible to turbo charge an outboard?


Mercury years ago supercharged their Verado outboard to give it the bottom end of a two stroke, give it a strong holeshot.
It’s not a Diesel, but a supercharger would likely be better for an outboard, cause the power from a supercharger is instant, where a turbo takes higher RPM and there is a lag.

It’s emissions that will kill a Diesel outboard, it’s almost killed on road Diesels, they have become so complex, and with the fuel costing more than gas, there isn’t much point to a Diesel anymore.
In the US it’s extremely difficult to meet emissions with a Diesel, without cheating.
Technically it’s not cheating, manufacturers are allowed to disable emissions controls to protect the engine, and they get to determine when it needs protecting, so some define the need for protection being at cruise RPM, or under acceleration, or normal operating temps.
All manufacturers have cheated and I’m sure still do, it goes back a long time, first cheating I remember was GM had the Cadillac so that anytime the heater or Airconditioner was on, the emissions controls were switched off, knowing the emissions testing was done with the HVAC systems off, and that was decades ago.
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