Re: New 225 any good?
I assume you're looking at Pelican's Nest. I bought one of their engines a couple of months ago, pretty much the same deal, but I got free shipping and am hanging the engine myself (still doing work on the hull).<br /><br />The price is outstanding. There, that part was easy. There is no other 2-stroke that you could even touch for that price.<br /><br />As to their reliability, here's the deal with Suzuki V-6 engines. If your's lasts past the first 50 hours it will never break. If it lets go in the first 50 hours it will be because a piston came apart. That is the only thing that ever goes wrong with them, and even it doesn't happen often.<br /><br />The run great, and are very smooth except for a small part of the lower power band. They tend to be rough around twelve hundred RPM but below and above that they are just fine. They are probably the easiest starting 2-strokes ever made too. One thing they are not is as fuel efficient as either the high pressure injection engines or the 4-strokes. They are better than carbed engines though. You know how you used to be able to extimate your fuel economy with a 2-stroke by just taking 10% of the rated horsepower and calling it your gallons per hour, well the EFI's do about a third again that good. That is to say that the maximum fuel burn you'll see out of one of these things is about 16~18 GPH, which ain't bad at the speeds you should be traveling up there around 5,600 RPM.<br /><br />By the way, I just pulled a DT-200 off of my boat to replace it with one of these 225 EFI's. They are exactly the same powerhead with a different black box and induction system (the 200 was carbed, this is injected). That engine had over 2,000 hours on it in the salt with most fishing days including 4 hours of hard running with 8 hours of ideling inbetween. During the entire time I had that engine I did not have over $500 in parts and repairs on it. I expect the same out of the new 225 EFI.<br /><br />Thom
