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Originally Posted by Tender Spirit
I am replacing our old (1987) Yanmar. We would like to replace it with a Beta engine, without the turbo charge. It is not EPA compliant. What does that mean? Will I be able to go cruising with this new engine internationally? We live in and cruise in remote areas (Alaska mostly) without mechanics that have the specialized equipment to service the electronics on the new Yanmars. How can we be compliant, yet live in places where we have to do our own repairs?
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I would urge you to be very careful when looking at Betamarine. They over rate their engines by a large margin.
We put a Beta 75 in a 50 footer to replace a
Perkins 4236 85 hp. When we ordered the new prop it would not turn the prop. We ended up going down 2 inches from the specified size.
Why?
Well turns out Beta bought a 49.8 kw
boat motor which is 66 hp and called it a 75. Now I am faced with running a too small
motor which consumes too much
fuel because it is being run too hard and it will not even come close to
hull speed and with the old motor it could do well north of
hull speed.
They also took my motor to a
boat show. Promised me spare
parts. It took 1 yr to get those spare
parts out of them.
In my opinion a completely unethical company.
And we are now faced with repowering again and it will be expensive.