Wow, you guys like to spend money!


Shortwave Sportfishing wrote:
On Wed, 06 Sep 2006 06:39:29 -0400, Harry Krause
wrote:

Shortwave Sportfishing wrote:
On Tue, 05 Sep 2006 22:41:43 -0400, Wayne.B
wrote:

On Wed, 06 Sep 2006 02:02:16 GMT, Shortwave Sportfishing
wrote:

Outboards rule - inboards drool!!! :)
Out of curiosity, what would be a typical negotiated price for a pair
of 200 hp ETECs ?

For a pair - let's see, price of tea in China times the annual
depreciation rate of the Kuna divided by Henry Ford's shoe size
expressed as a variable ratio of the price of pigs feet per ton -

~~ calculate ~~

Eh - say $31,000, plus or minus a few hundred either way.

What's a pair of new 671s go for?

$31,000? For a pair of 200s?

I think my Yamaha 225 four cycle goes out the door at around
$12,500-$13,000 without the boat.

On a repower? Maybe if you were swapping Yamaha for Yamaha, but even
then you won't get a price like that around these parts.

Just for curiosity, I checked around before I bought the E-TEC (not
that I would have bought anything else you understand) comparing
Yamaha four strokers/HPDI, Mercury Optimax/four stroke and E-TECs.
They all came in about the same bucks, rigged, installed and out the
door.

In fact, on a repower, the E-TEC was cheaper because it was just an
engine swap. Yamaha 200 four stroke and new controls was just under
$20,000, Mercury four stroke was about a grand cheaper - say $19,000.
Both Optimax and HPDI, new controls, came in on a quote at $21,000.

E-TEC with new controls was around $18,500.

You don't even want to know what they wanted for a Honda 200.

There was a significant difference between $18,500 and what I paid for
mine, but that's only because I have a very solid relationship with
the dealer.

Regardless of the brand, I wouldn't buy anything but a four cycle
outboard these days.

Well, to each their own. Pound for pound, dollar for dollar, you get
more bang for the buck with two stroke tech than four stroke, my
E-TECs burn cleaner, use less fuel all around than a four stroke and
are lighter.

Outboard prices are outrageous under any circumstances.

Damn straight.