2001 was actually a decent year for FICHT engines. 97-00 was the problem years, and that was limited mostly to the 150 and 175's. The 200 and 225's were always a decent engine, but in 01 they got better when they upped them from a 3.0L to the 3.3L engines. Gear cases were a bit of trouble in 01-02 for the 225's and 250's as the old trusty gear cases they had used for years and years couldn't handle the torque of the new larger displacement engines on heavy hulls. And by 03 BRP was still building FICHT engines, but called them ram injection trying to get away from the FICHT name as so many associated all of teh problems with the 150/175 FICHTS with all of them despite that it didn't apply to all of them. The engine on this boat is a JOHNSON, NOT an EVINRUDE(in 98 OMC made the EVINRUDES in both carb'd and FICHTS, but JOHNSON's were pretty much all carb'd engines as they only offerred FICHT JOHNSON's early on in VERY limited numbers. JOHNSON was to become there 4 stroke line while EVINRUDE would be there DFI 2 stroke line.) which makes it an old school 3.0L carb'd engine just like OMC had been building since 96 pretty much unchanged(and it only got minor changes to it since 93).
