Originally Posted by
gazza2006au
Money spent on the Etec was $1500, money spent driving 7 hours was about $55 for a tank of fuel, driving to the engineer was $10 in fuel, buying the Mercury was $800 and its still not running wow i am not a magician mate and i'm not trying to be funny but i have mentioned this i have spent $2365 where can i buy a running engine for this amount that is not a 30 40 year old engine? any modern fuel injected 90hp+ outboard for $2400 will be shagged to the shitter and ready to blow up, now i could keep saving and double that lets say $5000 what does 5k get ya? it gets u bottom of the line modern 2 or 4 stroke that could be on its last leg now that $5000 gets me a blown up engine it allows me to do a full rebuild without skimping on bits here and there and it gives me the confidence i need and the reliability to go where i want