you also have to realize how they weigh engines now, there has been a lot of discusion in several magazines comaring actual weight and advertised weight. Bass and Walleye magazine had an article a few years back that weighed each engine in a as installed running engine with all gear needed for it to operate. It created a lot of heat from the manufactures. For example on a Merc verado, its weighed without a prop(no big deal), gear lube(can't be that much), engine oil and filter(hears a few more pounds), zincs(adding a few more), power steering assembly(big verados only, but you have to have to run the engine, and it weighs a fair amount), so by the time your finsihed, you've added a few hundred pounds(maybe not that much), but you see the point I'm making, on the old 2 strokes, all you added was prop and 2 stroke oil to the weight, so comparing newer engines to older ones can be missleading. From what I remember, the magazine weighed a 250 Yamaha, 250 Suzuki, 250 Verado, and a 250 Honda, all four strokes(some reason they didn't have e-tecs, HPDI's or Opti's in the article, may have been a later issue), all as installed weight to be operational including controlls and any standard item needed to operate the engine. I don't remeber the actual weights, but they all ended up being close to 200 lbs heavier installed, I think the merc was even heavier stripped down than advertised. So when you are comparing weights, just remeber to compare apples to apples
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