2000 HYDRASPORTS cuddy

THEFERMANATOR · #1 12-09-2012, 07:39 PM

Makes me sick to see this for sale and me with no money. These are pretty rare to find, and his price is LOW to say the least. IF I had teh money I would have bought it already.

http://tampa.craigslist.org/hil/boa/3462192794.html

Kracker Jack · #2 12-09-2012, 07:52 PM

Nice rig!!! And very nice price.

macojoe · #3 12-10-2012, 01:40 AM

Thats a nice find!! And if was here it b gone already!

chumbucket · #4 12-10-2012, 07:43 AM

Yeah. You don't see that cuddy arrangement very often. I would definitely scoop that one up if it were up here.

Mulv80 · #5 12-10-2012, 09:40 AM

I'm betting that boat rides pretty hard considering how far forward the helm is.

THEFERMANATOR · #6 12-10-2012, 01:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Mulv80

I'm betting that boat rides pretty hard considering how far forward the helm is.

I had the same boat in a center console, and it rode pretty nice with tabs. Without tabs they will beat you to death, and seeing he has no tabs it may be why he's getting rid of it so cheap. It's a good riding hull, but requires alot of HP and tabs to plant the bow to ride nice in the slop.

reelapeelin · #7 12-13-2012, 06:55 PM

Wow Ferm...thanks for postin' that baby up...I've never seen that HS hull before...like you, i'd plan on a pair of tabs, but if I was in the market, I'd scoop that puppy up inna MINUTE!!...ME LIKEY...

bgreene · #8 12-27-2012, 05:18 AM

2001 was a tough year for Evinrude........ if it's a ficht motor.

THEFERMANATOR · #9 12-27-2012, 10:53 AM

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Originally Posted by bgreene

2001 was a tough year for Evinrude........ if it's a ficht motor.

2001 was actually a decent year for FICHT engines. 97-00 was the problem years, and that was limited mostly to the 150 and 175's. The 200 and 225's were always a decent engine, but in 01 they got better when they upped them from a 3.0L to the 3.3L engines. Gear cases were a bit of trouble in 01-02 for the 225's and 250's as the old trusty gear cases they had used for years and years couldn't handle the torque of the new larger displacement engines on heavy hulls. And by 03 BRP was still building FICHT engines, but called them ram injection trying to get away from the FICHT name as so many associated all of teh problems with the 150/175 FICHTS with all of them despite that it didn't apply to all of them. The engine on this boat is a JOHNSON, NOT an EVINRUDE(in 98 OMC made the EVINRUDES in both carb'd and FICHTS, but JOHNSON's were pretty much all carb'd engines as they only offerred FICHT JOHNSON's early on in VERY limited numbers. JOHNSON was to become there 4 stroke line while EVINRUDE would be there DFI 2 stroke line.) which makes it an old school 3.0L carb'd engine just like OMC had been building since 96 pretty much unchanged(and it only got minor changes to it since 93).

bgreene · #10 12-27-2012, 08:11 PM

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Originally Posted by THEFERMANATOR

2001 was actually a decent year for FICHT engines. 97-00 was the problem years, and that was limited mostly to the 150 and 175's. The 200 and 225's were always a decent engine, but in 01 they got better when they upped them from a 3.0L to the 3.3L engines. Gear cases were a bit of trouble in 01-02 for the 225's and 250's as the old trusty gear cases they had used for years and years couldn't handle the torque of the new larger displacement engines on heavy hulls. And by 03 BRP was still building FICHT engines, but called them ram injection trying to get away from the FICHT name as so many associated all of teh problems with the 150/175 FICHTS with all of them despite that it didn't apply to all of them. The engine on this boat is a JOHNSON, NOT an EVINRUDE(in 98 OMC made the EVINRUDES in both carb'd and FICHTS, but JOHNSON's were pretty much all carb'd engines as they only offerred FICHT JOHNSON's early on in VERY limited numbers. JOHNSON was to become there 4 stroke line while EVINRUDE would be there DFI 2 stroke line.) which makes it an old school 3.0L carb'd engine just like OMC had been building since 96 pretty much unchanged(and it only got minor changes to it since 93).

From what I've heard from Evinrude Master Tech / Dealer was Bombardier also cleaned up the manufacturing practices to build a quality motor. I had an 04' 200 DFI, and it ran great, very powerful, and very easy on fuel. Sold with my Mako CC.