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Location: Chicago, Beverly | Everything I have heard about the E-tec has been very,very positive. The mechanic(private mechanic technically not affiliated with Evinrude/Johnson but that is all he works on) who works on my boat was telling the same stuff you heard baiscally. It is supposed to be AS quiet as a 4 stroke, AS fuel efficient..etc.. Should be a little cheaper then the Honda 4 stroke(I would think) and it should be lighter also(235lbs for e-tec, 195lbs for regular 2stroke), but is not...Honda 50 (212lbs){the honda was listed as being a tiller with its weight, the e-tec did not say but shouldn't be too different either way}.. There is No break in period on the e-tec motors, not sure what break in procedures are on a Honda 4 stroke. The Honda is a 3 cylinder, the E-tec a two. The E tec is Direct Fuel Injection, not sure what the honda has, but I think it is injected(double checked the Honda website, it says it is carburated, but 3 carbs total, 1 per cylinder). Both HP's were rated at the prop-shaft. Here is some performance info on the e-tec and the Honda (27mph to 31.85mph for the honda), for the e-tec I could only find 40hp performance: 31.5mph-32.8. They had one pontoon with a 50 on it. Both Honda and E-tec had Carolina skiffs used in their tests and both were close despite the 10hp difference, Honda used a V1965 which is 18'8" and 900lbs 31.85mph and E-tec used a 1665dlx which is 15' 9.75" and 575lbs 32.8mph, other e-tec boats included one that weighed 755 and went 31.5mph and another one that was 788lbs and went 31.5.. too bad they couldn't both use the same boats. Here is Honda's site: http://www.honda-marine.com/bf50_features.htm
here is Evinrude's: directly to e-tec http://www.evinrude.com/e-tec/default.htm?US
Evinrude home: http://www.evinrude.com/docs/100/0_US.htm
I guess Greg posted his while I was still typing..lol..
Edited by kevin 3/11/2004 7:42 PM
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