[THEFERMANATOR]

Don't forget the added maintence costs of oil changes, filters, zincs, ring free, and so on when figuring your actual numbers. The cost of 2 stroke oil is pretty much offset by the cost of oil changes. I see where you're going with this presenting it to your wife, but be honest with yourself. And if your props are as bad off as you're saying they are, you can probably get a new set of props and reduce your current fuel consumption. The only real advantage I see is newer power and the hope of increased reliability, and if you do sell it, there will be a large increase in resale value. So they each have there pros and cons. Personnally I would get what you have fixxed, setup, working 100%, and run it like it is for a year or at least 3 months to see if it's the boat for you and if you will still be using it as much as you hope to after the new wears off before I would repower. I know that the idea of repowering is very tempting right now as many dealers want to move inventory in the off season and are willing to deal. But I would spend some time with it before I went sinki,g more money into it than you bought it for for a pair of new engines.