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    Buying boat question on value of motors ?? Help

    I'm very new to the outboard world. I looking at buying a 28' cat hull with mercury 2.5L 250hp carbureted motors. I'm guessing year around 92. I want to upgrade to 300x or 300xs motors. What do you feel the value is of these motors are
    as a package ? We did a compression check they seem to be in ok condition. Older man owns boat he said they were babied most of its life. Also wondering if these are wanted motors and if anybody would buy them ?

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    Check NADA out and plug in the details of the engines in question

    http://www.nadaguides.com/Boats/Outboard-Motors
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    Unfortunately you won't find those motors in the NADA guide.

    No such thing as a 250 HP. 2.5L Mercury. Maybe 245 HP Mercury Hi performance 2.5 carb?

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    Dont trust NADA at all

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    Quote Originally Posted by Onetime View Post
    Unfortunately you won't find those motors in the NADA guide.

    No such thing as a 250 HP. 2.5L Mercury. Maybe 245 HP Mercury Hi performance 2.5 carb?
    need to know more about them for a value 2.5 245 hp should have cle lowers but lowers make a big difference in price also
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    They would probably be the 245 hp then. It sounded like they were a high performance model and they were carbureted. That's why I didn't look on nada. There's usually a differance between a book value and what it's going to sell for. That's why I was hoping you guys could narrow the gap.

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    Quote Originally Posted by roadkill636 View Post
    Dont trust NADA at all
    Book values are ****ing useless.
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    These motors have CLE lowers on them.

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    Quote Originally Posted by mach1magnum View Post
    need to know more about them for a value 2.5 245 hp should have cle lowers but lowers make a big difference in price also
    These motors have CLE lowers on them.

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    Agree with all posted above.

    Finding recently sold motors of same year and HP is best guide. I sold a '92 2.5 EFI 260 with a CLE to another member here about 8 years ago for $4,000. It still ran fine but was getting close to a rebuild, which the buyer was fully aware of. I have no idea if this helps you or not, but buyer and seller in that situation we're both happy.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Velocity72 View Post
    Agree with all posted above.

    Finding recently sold motors of same year and HP is best guide. I sold a '92 2.5 EFI 260 with a CLE to another member here about 8 years ago for $4,000. It still ran fine but was getting close to a rebuild, which the buyer was fully aware of. I have no idea if this helps you or not, but buyer and seller in that situation we're both happy.
    Hey velocity72 that was another question I had. how many hrs did you have on motor? And how often should you go threw these motors ?

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