02-12-2011, 09:48 AM
I have a 2.5 motor, it is 40 years old,
its primary use was to push my gramps 16 foot deap v around the lake, it did a fine job, and still dose.
now mine I have to fill gas in the top, no injection ports.
A 4 horse will do the job just fine, no your not going to go ripping around the lake with it, but you can at least get it down slow enough for trolling, you get something bigger then you have to start thinking about back boards for your motor to slow your self down.
bigger motors requier higher speads to get enough water up in to the motor to cool them off. As for 4 stroke, we have them in our area and that is all you can buy new any more, what I dont know about them is if they have the same type of cooling system as the 2 strokes.
deffenantly stay away from the brigs 4 stroke, they will rattle you to peices...
the reason aside from sales proffit is that if you are going out 10 miles you may want something big enough to get you back in a fair amount of time.
Personaly, I would stay with the 4 stroke for now because of the amount of weight of the motors, the 4 strokes are 50% heavier than their counter parts, it will be years before they get the weight down the way they did with the 2 strokes...
so be sure to do the math, check what your boat is rated for, if it has a live well, be sure to add 8 pounds for every gallon of water it holds. add the weight of your existing motor your self and your guest, "self and guest = 500 lbs" add the weight of your tackle and coolers. see what is left, and that is the size motor you can afford to have on your boat.
hope this gives you a little more info...
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its primary use was to push my gramps 16 foot deap v around the lake, it did a fine job, and still dose.
now mine I have to fill gas in the top, no injection ports.
A 4 horse will do the job just fine, no your not going to go ripping around the lake with it, but you can at least get it down slow enough for trolling, you get something bigger then you have to start thinking about back boards for your motor to slow your self down.
bigger motors requier higher speads to get enough water up in to the motor to cool them off. As for 4 stroke, we have them in our area and that is all you can buy new any more, what I dont know about them is if they have the same type of cooling system as the 2 strokes.
deffenantly stay away from the brigs 4 stroke, they will rattle you to peices...
the reason aside from sales proffit is that if you are going out 10 miles you may want something big enough to get you back in a fair amount of time.
Personaly, I would stay with the 4 stroke for now because of the amount of weight of the motors, the 4 strokes are 50% heavier than their counter parts, it will be years before they get the weight down the way they did with the 2 strokes...
so be sure to do the math, check what your boat is rated for, if it has a live well, be sure to add 8 pounds for every gallon of water it holds. add the weight of your existing motor your self and your guest, "self and guest = 500 lbs" add the weight of your tackle and coolers. see what is left, and that is the size motor you can afford to have on your boat.
hope this gives you a little more info...
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