Volvo Penta V6 for the future

[Saline Marina]

So I am aware of GM ending production of the 4.3L ironhead engine this year. I've read about friends over at Merc developing their own 4.5L V6 (sounds costly and I'd personally wait a few model years to work thru problems in design & mfg). I was wondering if anyone knew about Volvo's plans for their V6 in the future? GM does have an "LV3" 4300 V6 which is still a pushrod cam-in-block engine, but its an engine that I think is basically adapted from the 5.3L/6.0L/6.2L V8s with aluminum heads and the cam hardware for the high pressure direct-inject fuel injection, also featuring "active fuel management" which is a system to hydraulically disable the valvetrain of certain cylinders when their contribution to loads aren't needed (in the name of fuel economy).

I did some research on google and came up with essentially nothing. VP could have bulked up on inventory of the old 4.3L ironhead to presumably make it thru one or more model years but I was just curious if the new generation of pushrod GM engines was going to make its way into boats. I would think the fuel economy stuff like DI fuel injection and AFM displacement disablers would be unneeded and unwanted complexity in a marine engine. The aluminum heads would likely drive closed cooling.

Anyway, thanks for info, always curious about the direction things are headed.

Edit: so I did find this VP-380 (380hp!) which I think is a current production GM small block V8 similar to above.
http://www.volvopenta.com/volvopenta.../V8-380-C.aspx

Truck engine equivalent, I think...
http://www.gmfleet.com/chevrolet/sil...g_box_drw.html

Here is the LV3-V6 specs if interested. (285hp!) Although the Direct Inject adds some HP, could be balanced by the lower restriction of the marine exhaust manifold system.
http://gmauthority.com/blog/gm/gm-engines/lv3/

New engines all have piston cooling oil jets (basically a little tube sticking up into each bore to just miss the path of the conrod, constantly spraying oil on the bottom of the pistons) to enable higher compression ratios and the larger heat-release of the direct-inject combustion event.

More: L86 = 6.2L and could be VP-430

http://www.ls-guy.com/l86/

http://www.volvopenta.com/volvopent...matic/c_gasoline_sterndrive/Pages/V8-430.aspx

 

[bruceb58]

the VP-430 is a 6.0L engine.

 

[Saline Marina]

It also appears everything with a -CE designation has a catalytic converter on each manifold, definitely no carbs at that point, its all ECM - fuel injection. The tradeoffs seem to be higher horsepower is out there but its going to have more complexity and thus more cost, especially with the water-jacketed catalyst and the oxygen sensors (and diagnostics) to go with it.

Not trying to dog on Merc but the VP engine mockup seems a lot cleaner. Perhaps its the state of dress the engines are pictured in...time will tell.

 

[Tail_Gunner]

Expensive engine but nice to say the least, I'll take mine with vvt..w/o DI and drop the cat's...very rare while your at it....Or just maybe the 5.3.