Tuning up the new Boat loking to go offshore?

Is that your boat?

What is the going price of 1 557?

ETA: awesome setup. Don't want to take away from the glory at all...

70k.

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Not to highjack, but how do you know my name?

Well, I guess you picked the right one. I figured you may have talked to someone at CCA.

Cadillac CTS-V supercharged VEE frickIN EIGHT

I'll take my $70,000 motor in red thank you.



Like all outboards, each $68,900 (list) 557 is virtually all aluminum, but unlike them, it’s not directly cooled by seawater. Instead it has a closed-loop cooling system, which Seven Marine says is the first of its kind in an outboard, and ethylene glycol, the same coolant used in your car. The system works by pulling salt water into dual water inlets at the bottom of the lower unit via a seawater pump. The water circulates through a heat exchanger where the ethylene glycol is flowing in a separate loop. Heat passes from the glycol to the seawater through the metal casing, keeping the motor’s temperature in check. (It works like the cool air flowing over a car radiator.) The water exits the motor and returns to the sea without ever touching the engine.

Speaking of cars, it was actually an automobile that allowed this marine project to become a reality. The 557 began life under the hood of a Cadillac CTS-V—it’s a marinized version of that car’s supercharged 6.2-liter V-8, mounted horizontally, just as it is in the automotive setting, and transmitting its power down to a ZF transmission via a transfer case assembly. Unlike most outboards, where shifting is done in the lower gear case, this motor’s gear changes occur in the midsection, which then routes power down to a lower gear case that has twin pinion gears to ensure durability.

Bastard.

Thanks for posting that. I haven't seen any triple 557 applications yet. Those motors are going to push outboard powered craft to new levels. 50' will be the new 36'

I bet one of those things would do work on the back of a 24' haynie

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