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Since you seem to be interested in 2-stroke DFI engines, you might take a serious look at the Mercury ProXS engines.

It seems to me that all of these G2 Evinrudes are badly overpriced from what I can tell, and ugly to boot. 18K for 200 HP is crazy. I see pricing on a Mercury 175 ProXS Optimax, a 200 HP engine at the prop, for 11K. One of these engines will blow the doors off any 150 E-tec you can buy, and for a lot less money.

This operation will ship you an engine for about $300 in shipping, and no sales tax (a significant cost). Or, since you are not too far away from Tennessee, you can drive down there and have them install it for you. Either way you will be thousands of dollars ahead.

http://jacosmarine.com/mercury-engine...e-pricing/

I have no affiliation at all with this dealer, but have bought an engine from them, and several Mercury SS props. This post is not about Evinrude vs Mercury, but simply about dollars, cents and HP at the prop.