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To me these HP ratings are like voodoo. Especially with Etec (I have the 200hp HO). Etec uses a same the same block motor and fools with the computer and Woolah!!!! A 175hp or 150hp becomes a 200hp (I am not familiar with the 90hp+- series for use as an example). Then the size up the block and you then have the 200hp HO that then goes up to 250hp series with the same block. My boat was rated for 240hp and I found a 250hp and contacted Etec to reprogram the computer for less hp. No can do....fixed in stone.....consumer regs and emission standards, etc.... My rant is completed.

I say if the weight works get the larger block. I would always prefer to not push or low idle a big block motor to get similar performance out of a smaller block running harder wide open. Just makes sense to me.

Garris