Does anyone run any of the aftermarket SternDrive Engineering drives on their boat? I belive the Alpha's are a SE106. I have been working on my 260 Stinger most of the winter and Im ready to start working on the upper drives. The new replacement upper drives are only $595.00 each. One of mine had a bad seal and one shows a good amount of wear on the bearings and gears. By the time you buy all the parts and the special tools to do the job, a new replacement drive can be bought and its new. Im just looking to see If anyone had run and of these drives and have any comments on them. Dan

[B][I]I run two of Sterndrive Engineering units, on my 1985 , 26 Stinger, no problems with them.

I have the CR one I bought last year to get in the water with. Overall the thing looked really good fit and finish-wise. I've been in both low and high volume machining for 25 yrs and was impressed with the quality from a visual standpoint, and they stand behind their drives with a good guarantee, which tells me they're confident in their product. I've got about 50hrs on mine problem free and like it enough that I intend on selling off a spare RH drive I have from a different boat that needs resealed and buying a RH SEI to go on my Stinger and keep the RH Merc one on there now in the garage for a spare. I have stock 260's in mine, so I don't know how they would do with more HP though. I've heard some guys saying they've had problems with theirs, but usually only if they replaced half. I bought the whole drive for mine due to a Merc mechanic who told me he wouldn't do only half on any of the OEM ones he repairs (or rebuild the blown half of mine) without a complete disass'y of the other half for cleaning and re-seal. He said replacing/repairing only half without the extra work always ends up with one or both pieces failing again prematurely from contamination left over from the first failure. I bought a whole new CR drive with an anode kit and gaskets for half what the rebuild was going to cost me, and it came with a guarantee I couldn't get from him or Merc. My .02 worth.

I have an SE106 behind the 383 in my heavy 4 Winns... the drive has been absolutely trouble free and I have been very hard on it!

I plan on putting one behind the 383 going in my Stinger.