This motor frame is easy to drive and very well balanced. I coupled it with a 6.5hp Carroll Stream 4 stroke motor. It has made my 12’ modified V flat bottom boat into a 4 wheel drive machine!! It will go pretty much anywhere I want it to with very little effort. Couldn’t be happier!

I love this product but you must have an anti ventilation plate to get over half throttle for me, I also had problems with some of the hardware, but I went to Home Depot and got stainless bolts anyways because I live in salt water. I had a bit of a fit getting the shaft on the the output shaft of the motor, I think if I had been a little more patient and used a wire brush and maybe cleaned some grime off of it it would have slid right on. I would recommend using loctite on all of your bolts, because I have already had to replace two. But other than that it is very high quality and a lot of bang for your buck it gets me where I need to go to catch the redfish and kill the ducks

I used a Briggs and Stratton with the kit. I think its important to note that yes the kit will mount to a Briggs but a Briggs throttle set up does not work at all with a twist throttle. After taking it to a mechanic, he adjusted the governor and throttle assembly to make it work. I still can't use the twist throttle on the handle but it works for where I'm using it. Another important thing I found is if your going to use it in shallow water on a smaller boat you might need to make a jack plate. I run mine on a 1040 lowe and the stern is short. To get the boat to move I had to raise the motor 5" up. After trial and error its awesome.