Any insiders have info on the upcoming Evinrude promotion?

[BemisBasser]

I am looking at repowering soon with a new 150 E-tec and wondered if anyone had any info on the upcoming promotion and what it may be. TIA.

[Evinrude57]

The 10 year warranty is gone for good if that is what your wondering...

[BemisBasser]

I was hoping that would come back around. So If that is gone, what do you think they will offer?

[mactlman]

evinrude will have to do something to stop the 4 stroke bleeding out issues- too many wrongly believe 4 stoke is the future

[headhigh]

evinrude will have to do something to stop the 4 stroke bleeding out issues- too many wrongly believe 4 stoke is the future

Lots of new 4-strokes on the bass boats in my area. They all laugh at us 2-stroke guys when we have to spend $40 on XD-100 every 2 or 3 weeks.

[jc2bg]

Lots of new 4-strokes on the bass boats in my area. They all laugh at us 2-stroke guys when we have to spend $40 on XD-100 every 2 or 3 weeks.

You must be racking up a lot of miles. I put 80 hours on my 225 last year and am headed for a similar number this year. I spend about $120 a year for XD-100 and wouldn’t have any other outboard ever made. At this point, nothing has the combined performance and engineering of the G2.

[King_Fish]

You must be racking up a lot of miles. I put 80 hours on my 225 last year and am headed for a similar number this year. I spend about $120 a year for XD-100 and wouldn’t have any other outboard ever made. At this point, nothing has the combined performance and engineering of the G2.

X2 Brother, H2E!

I run the piss out of mine all Spring, Summer and Fall (May - October) and go through MAYBE 3 gallons, emphasis on MAYBE...

[headhigh]

You must be racking up a lot of miles. I put 80 hours on my 225 last year and am headed for a similar number this year. I spend about $120 a year for XD-100 and wouldn’t have any other outboard ever made. At this point, nothing has the combined performance and engineering of the G2.

Yes sir, I put a lot of miles on her! Probably 50-75 miles every weekend. My morning run is 15-25 miles, depending on which area of the intercoastal we decide to fish. I'm sure I could save a bunch on gas and oil if I'd back her down to 4300 rpms and cruise, but it's just so much fun to hear that ETEC humming at WOT! I could save a bunch if I changed the ECU setting to XD-100, but I feel safer at the TCW-3 setting. $40 oil is still cheaper than a $4500 power head.

[Highthrust]

Wait until the new Four strokes have to go in for scheduled service and they see the bill. $120 for oil will seem cheap.

[KandKKustomz]

too many wrongly believe 4 stoke is the future

AMEN!

[King_Fish]

AMEN!

X2, and what self-respecting Fisherman doesn't Love the smell of 2 stroke in the morning...

[headhigh]

X2, and what self-respecting Fisherman doesn't Love the smell of 2 stroke in the morning...

I love the smell of 2-stroke in the morning....but I certainly don't get it from my ETEC. It burns too clean for that. I make sure I tie up next to the guys running an old Merc EFI or Yamaha so I can get my fix.

[louievito]

I was gonna say the same thing! Since getting my g2 this year I make it a point to idle up to an older evinrude or Johnson to smell lol. My g2 is just clean clean

I love the smell of 2-stroke in the morning....but I certainly don't get it from my ETEC. It burns too clean for that. I make sure I tie up next to the guys running an old Merc EFI or Yamaha so I can get my fix.

[mactlman]

X2, and what self-respecting Fisherman doesn't Love the smell of 2 stroke in the morning...

[SEAHORSE]

X2, and what self-respecting Fisherman doesn't Love the smell of 2 stroke in the morning...

The science (and romance) of two-stroke exhaust smell.

Rich Lee

All it takes is one whiff. It could be an old dirt bike starting up fresh out of storage or a vintage scooter trundling past. No matter. As soon as two-stroke exhaust hits your nose, it splits your face into a big, toothy smile. The stuff literally gets under your skin.
But what are you actually smelling? And why is it so evocative?
From a physiological standpoint, the answer is straightforward. Olfaction, the process of smelling, is closely tied to emotion and associative learning. And, unlike our other senses, it’s wired directly into the limbic system; before you even identify a smell, the olfactory bulb has already triggered a memory and the feeling attached to it, a true primal reaction. So, if you grew up around motorcycles, your brain might associate two-stroke with the warmth of family, the pride of winning a race, or the satisfaction of tuning a carb. Getting a snoutful of the stuff can be comforting on a neural level.
But there might be more to the magic of two-stroke’s distinct scent. So says Kelly Jones, the New York-based perfumer behind Kelly + Jones, an experimental fragrance line stocked at stores including Urban Outfitters and Garmentory. Asked to analyze burning synthetic two-stroke for Motorcyclist, her trained nose picked up an array of smells, including benzoin and balsam (tree resins), cade oil (a species of juniper), and a hint of patchouli (yes, patchouli). To Jones, the underlying character here was revealing. She notes that tree resins represented the very first perfumes, tracing back to ancient civilizations. Benzoins and balsams have long been used to make incense, and cade oil is a known antiseptic.
Altogether, she describes the two-stroke fragrance profile as ancestral, ritualistic, ceremonial, and medicinal.
“In a way, this scent is actually very human,” she says. “There’s a term we use in perfumery, animalic, to describe musk. And this one’s a little dirty, isn’t it? There’s an element of the forbidden. That’s sexy. People have always been attracted to those smells. They always will be.”

[Bassmeister]

That's a good read 'Hoss.... and to help the guys with the DFI and ETEC's turn the rear of the boat into the wind....you'll get a whiff of that smell without the smoke...

[ChampioNman]

I wouldn't get too pumped up about anything until the dealer meetings are over.

[mactlman]

i use a gallon per year usually of amsoil so no big deal lakes small in Ohio

[XingEyeballs]

Being we’ve strayed from the original topic, I’d like to ask a secondary question. Last year when I bought the boat I had the dealer do the 3yr maintenance (plugs, lower unit oil, water pump, and winterize) This year I was going to winterize myself. Are you guys just running the automatic winterize cycle and changing the lower unit oil? What lower unit oil are you using? My dealer is a 4 hour round trip, I just want to make sure I get it right.
2014 E-TEC 225HO Gen 1
Thanks

[King_Fish]

...Are you guys just running the automatic winterize cycle and changing the lower unit oil? What lower unit oil are you using?

On my 150 G2 HO I do the automatic winterize cycle and change the LU myself before putting her away in late October.

The auto winterize is simple even if you don't have the ICON system. For the lower unit, I buy the Evinrude high performance oil for the G2 in gallon bottles from amazon, i just don't have the product # handy at the moment. I also have the hand pump from Amazon (P/N 0775611) which makes life real easy.

Both are very easy to do. If you use muffs on your water hose when winterizing you will need to put duck tape over the water intake screen on the front of the lower unit.

Sorry - I just saw you are running the G1 so this all may be to no avail, my bad...