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Saab turbo boat

Saab Turbo boat

You might remember Saab boat with two Saab turbo engine. Its basis is known Vator NV11 boat 22 feet long. (Vator Oy, a legendary finnish boat manufacturer founded 1938.
After Vator sold it’s boat manufacturing business to Flipper in 1986, Vator focused primarily on importing Mercury/Mercruiser products.)

Its factory engine a few years ago has been replaced with two Saab turbo engine B234Engines have closed cooling system which uses Mercruiser heat exchangers from 454 Big Block to remove the heat from coolant. Engine oils are cooled down with separate smaller heat exchangers. Also Intercoolers are cooled with water.

This year Turbos are now upgraded to TD04-15T´s and they are starting with approx 450hp with base-software. And that’s not all, They have added Bigger propellers and another of those is now running counter-clockwise. See results of first tests recorded a few days ago:

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This was a few years ago:

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Goran Aničić
the authorGoran Aničić
For over 15 years, Goran Aničić has been passionately focused on Saab automobiles and everything related to them. His initial encounter with Saab cars took place back in 2003 when the first Saab 9-3 and sedan version were introduced. At that moment, he was captivated by the car's Scandinavian design logic and top-notch engineering, and everything that followed stemmed from that first encounter. Later on, through his work at the editorial team of the Serbian automotive magazines "Autostart" and later "AutoBild," he had the opportunity to engage more closely with Saab vehicles. In 2008, he tested the latest Saab cars of that time, such as the Saab 9-3 TTiD Aero and Saab 9-3 Turbo X. In 2010, as the sole blogger from the region, he participated in the Saab 9-5ng presentation in Trollhättan, Sweden. Alongside journalists from around the world, he got a firsthand experience of the pinnacle of technological offerings from Saab at that time. Currently, Goran owns two Saabs: a 2008 Saab 9-3 Vector Sportcombi with a manual transmission, and a Saab 9-3 Aero Griffin Sport Sedan from the last generation, which rolled off the production line in Trollhättan in December 2011.

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