[MetroMPG]

Very late update / wrap-up to this thread:

I ended up with too many land-based projects, so the boat was not used much in the previous 2 seasons -- it stayed on the hard last year in fact.

So, the conversion never got beyond testing the e-motor on the quick-n-dirty wooden lower unit mount.

This year, I sold a half-share in the boat to a couple I know, and they understandably wanted the gasser back in, rather than fussing with an experimental electric conversion.

So we tore down the motor this spring and replaced all the seals & gaskets. It went back in the boat before this year's launch and is working fine. The stinky, smoky, noisy (relatively powerful, long-range) 2-stroke lives again.