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| I got it out on the water today. I'm a happy camper. It started right up, nice and quiet, sits nice on the boat, no smoke, smooth, and appears to get great gas mileage. It jumped right up on plane so fast it wasn't almost funny. I then ran it around Mendota for a lap at various cruising speeds for and hour and 15 minutes. I don't have fantastic detail on previous mileage of my old motor, but one day last summer in Canada I ran it a long way with my 13 gallon tank full. I ran a total of about 2 hours that day at cruising speeds and my tank was almost empty when I got back to camp, I had to put 12 gallons in that night. Today I ran for an hour and 15 minutes and used 1/8th of a tank...maybe. That means I used to get 2 hours per tank on my old motor and for sake of not exaggerating I got (when extrapolated) 8-9 hours per tank or roughly speaking a 400% increase or 4 times better gas mileage….not 40%, but 400% better!!!! That's huge. I only ran it up to 5,000 rpms, (okay a little more), and hit 40mph and had more to go before the hammer was all the way down. I didn't want to push it while I was breaking it in.
So, it's quieter, faster, smooth, no smoke, no oil to add, and I added the trolling feature which allows me to bump it up or down by I believe 100 rpm per tap, which worked great as well. It's all I could have hoped for and more. I have a Stainless 4 blade, and I'm not sure, but think it is a 19 pitch.
Kevin
Edited by Nomadmusky 5/4/2019 9:17 PM
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