Honda or Ficht?

[Briguy]

A guy on my canal just bought a c-hawk 23 with a 225 Honda. He loves it! You are taking a chance with the Ficht! Don't do it. As far as maintainance, I think that whole idea has been blown out of perportion. Check out this math. If you run your Ficht 500 hours and average fuel burn is 8gph that is 4000 gallons of gas. If the oil burn averages a 80 to 1 mix at $17.00 a gallon for the factory recommended stuff you would have oil costs of (4000/80)=50 gallons of oil x$17=$850.00. Of course you need to change the oll in your 4 stroke motor but my suzuki's use 4 qts at $1.50/qt and a $4.00 oil filter I can buy at the auto parts store. If I switch to synthetic like mobil one I could probably get 200-250 hours between oil change. On my first oil 100 hour oil change the motors hadn't burnt a drop and it was as clean as the day it was put in. My dealer charged me $80.00 total for my twins if I have him do it. As far as speed, don't expect any more than 42mph (38 kts) out of the opti, ficht or honda. Personally I would wait 2 months for the 250 Suzuki 4 stroker.