Trade-In Value
 

I'm going to be trading-in or selling my 2000 Donzi 22 ZX soon. It will have a new motor (350 mag mpi). Should I leave the procharger on it (81 mph) or have it in stock form (66 mph). I don't know which would be more appealing to most buyers, speed or originality.

Stock Stock Stock

I'm with bern. I have looked at several boats lately , want to go bigger , Everything I see is f'ed with so much i'd rather have it with no power at all than risk buying a boat with 2 shot out big blocks. Why would you need to repower a 2000 , procharger whoop it or too many hours?

So are you guys saying that a boat that has anything but a brand new stock merc motor is no good?

Also, why re-power a 2000? I did mine as it had pretty high hours and the engine had to come out to replace the gimbal ring. It was a stock 454 MAG MPI that was a 385 Horse engine originally. The engine ran great when it came out, but I couldn't see pulling it and not going through it with the number of hours on it. We built it .030 over, added heads and cam and bumped it up to 500hp. So is what you guys are saying is that my boat would be worth more with a high hour stock engine than with a fresh engine built by a respected marine engine builder that has a bit more output?

Big difference from mild upgrades to procharged engine. Anything supercharged is going to scare many people away, especially in a 22' boat.

jayhawk, IMO, your boat is worth the same with the fresh bumped up engine as it would be with a fresh stock rebuild.

just my .02 BUT i would go out of my way to NOT buy a boat with a blower attached to a bravo. a 454 like jayboat did wouldnt scare me at all as long as the builder was reputable

Thanks for the help, I was leaning toward stock. I've found that a lot of shops don't want to do the swap with the procharger on it for fear that I'll come back to them if something goes wrong. And yes, 7 good years and the motor gave up. I have no regrets about the blower, 66 mph got boring pretty quick even coming from a Mastercraft.

I sold my old boat with a small-block chevy that had everything but a blower, I was the original owner and showed all my receipts, engine clearances, engine balance sheet, etc and I gave them to the new owner. The guy who bought said that I must not have anything to hide because I had everything and told him everything. I did go and look at a scarab that was supposed to have all this and that and the owner couldn't prove any of it needless to say I didn't buy it

The procharger and boat sold separate is worth more than selling together.

when i was shopping everyone i spoke to (mechanic and peformance boat owners) told me NOT to even consider a s'charged boat.. and even to stay away from rebuily unless everything was documented like k24u said