help with old 3208 marine

HI All

I have recently purchased a Cigarette 41 racing boat as a restoration project and am trying to find out information about the engines.

I believe that the engines, which are two Caterpillar 3208 Diesel engines, were fitted as new to the boat when she was manufactured. Unfortunately the engine identification tags have corroded and so I am unable to read the engine data. I would like to identify the build type, HP, and RPM for the engines.

I appreciate that you may be unable to assist but I would really be grateful for any help or guidance you can give me.

The first engine number is 75V6174 and the arrangement number is 8N2543. The second engine number is 75V6152 and the arrangement number is 8N2543.

The first injector pump number is 9N3757-01204354 and the second is 9N3757-02211998.

There is a small tag on the turbo with number 8N1068.

Once again, many thanks for reading this email and for any help that you can give me.

Kind Regards


Riccardo Mann

There were several ratings for the 3208 up to 425hp but I don't think the 75V prefix was used on anything above 375HP, the best thing is to ask your local Cat dealer what rating the arrangement number was, it would only have been used on one horsepower rating, the alternative is to publish a photograph, we can probably identify it from its appearance due to different aftercoolers etc being used,

The 75V was a Naturally Aspirated engine. The racing boat was likely the "pleasure craft" rating of 210 HP @ 2800 RPM.

hi not with this ar no its a turbo on the cat system just that system not stait bhp thanks Ricky