![]() These heavy bass boats aren’t all that fast. With the Evinrude G2 150 HO, the Ranger does 58 MPH, equipped with a Raker HO prop: 14 ½ diameter, 24” pitch. Evinrude weighs their engines as they ship and the Merc is weighted without its heavy cowling, which the Evinrude doesn’t really have so it is a little closer than the numbers suggest. The G2 150 holds no weight advantage, without the integrated steering, it weighs 495 Lbs, about 15 Lbs heavier than the Yamaha with the Merc being the lightest at 455 Lbs. Although it’s a smaller displacement than the others, the Yamaha is a 2.8L and the Mercury is a 3.0L The G2 has two more cylinders firing on every stroke. In the 150 HP category, the 2.7L Evinrude G2 has a huge advantage over the 4 cylinder four stroke competitors, obviously the Evinrude is a two stroke and it is a V6. Compared to the Sabre and Nitro it’s right between them in weight, has a shallow 16 degree hull and is equipped with a trolling motor and three batteries, equipment sport boats don’t have to worry about. Another note, the Yamaha was tested with a passenger, the Evinrude solo. The one with the Yamaha is a Z18C, same hull but has the added side console and is 25 Lbs heavier. Next, we have the Evinrude G2 vs the Yamaha 150 SHO on the same Ranger Z18. The best test would be to run them all on one hull like the Bass Cat Sabre. Some boats just can’t get the lift required to get going and this Nitro has a really shallow deadrise with a funky design and is a little heavy. But it’s hard to say not actually driving or actually seeing the setup. You might try using a 24” Tempest, even dropping just over 100 RPM, but possibly changing a few things, you could probably get 66 to 67 MPH and then it makes sense. In this case, you would be hard pressed to argue for getting the bigger 175 ProXS. Although both are pictured mounted directly on the transom, so the Nito must have serious built in setback. 5” more setback, 17” total than the 175, which would not be much different. This just proves how critical setup, prop selection and the right engine is. You would hope there is much more to be had out of the 175 ProXS, although it’s a very heavy engine, it should be faster than the 150 ProXS. The Yamaha is an excellent repower engine. A slightly lighter swivel bracket, smaller throttle body and a tuned exhaust differentiate it from the F200. The 2.8 4 cyl is actually based off the F200, which was introduced at the same time and not the F150 2.7L. ![]() This engine was introduced in 2012 and was benchmarked with the outgoing 150 HDPI and exceeded it in most performance measures, according to Yamaha. Yamaha 150 SHOįirst up, the Yamaha 150 SHO. Let’s look at the Yamaha 150 VMAX SHO, Evinrude G2 150 HO, and Mercury 150 Pro XS. Naturally, all the boats are bass boats, the closest thing to performance boats in the mainstream world. Since we can’t test ourselves, it will be interesting to see the different setups, different props and how fast some of these boats are going. The last test looks at all three on the same boat, the first two are two out of three on the same boat. I have compiled some tests for the 150 HP range, and a few with 175 HP outboards just for comparison. Another cool thing is looking at the same manufacturers engine on the same boat but in a different horsepower to see if it’s worth it getting a 175 over a 150 for example. Outboard engine manufacturers post performance bulletins for their models, and you can often find the same boat across the tests with different engines. Since our budget doesn’t allow a proper engine shootout, where we would ideally take 3 matching boats and power them with the latest 150 HP outboards to see how they compare in every performance category we’re going to cheat.
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