D3-220

The D3-220 topped the D3 range from the 2009 update onward, extracting 220 hp from 2.4 litres - close to 92 hp per litre, and the reason Volvo Penta sold the D3 on power-to-weight rather than displacement. The hardware is the family's: aluminium cylinder block with integrated bed plate and aluminium head, double overhead camshafts, four valves per cylinder with hydraulic lash adjusters, cast-in grey iron liners, six-bearing crankshaft, 1800 bar common-rail injection with piezo-electric injectors, variable-geometry turbocharger and EVC-C electronic shift and throttle. It was offered as an inboard on the HS45AE reverse gear or the HS63IVE V-drive, and as an Aquamatic Duoprop sterndrive package on the DPS drive with the range's tallest 1.78:1 ratio. Volvo Penta never built an IPS pod package on the D3, so the D3-220 remains a shaft-or-sterndrive engine.