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| Not sure why people are talking about comparing engines with the same block size...Mercury Verado website says the 200hp is a 1.7l 4cylinder, while the 225 and 250 are 2.6l v6...NOT the same block.
maybe the older verado 200 and 250 or some of the other merc's were/are on the same block? I know my 200 yamaha ox66 is the same block as the 225 and 250, but not in this case.
I have spoken with a couple friends who have compared different block-size engines on the same boat--a 150 v4 versus a 200 v6 for instance--and said the larger engine actually got BETTER fuel economy because they were able to run it at the most efficient rpm range more often. Not sure if 4-strokes typically being a bit less torqe-y and with a different power curve than 2-strokes are the same, but food for thought.
resale value--is it really a higher resale value, or is it the same % of a lower original retail price? I'm sure you wont shrink your pool of willing buyers by maxing out HP but I've never been too sure about the resale thing. Assuming a reasonable HP for the boat, it seems to me that condition will make far more of a difference in resale than 50hp.
Edited by Macintosh 3/6/2017 4:57 PM
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