New Surface drive (need advice)

[Sea-Trac Offshore]

Me personally, I would test drive them all. Look at the options. Reverse, Trim, horsepower, etc.. I have worked on all of them for a couple years and all use the same motors, Kohler or Briggs. I like Briggs as you can practically get parts anywhere. As for the drives, it depends where you will run it. Real soup mud, Prodrive or Mudbuddy, Plenty grass Mudbuddy. Need reverse quick for frogging, only Gatortail. Also these motors are very easy to get more performance out of them. Mudbuddy is the only one you can change gearing in to adapt to the horses also. Take your time and try all the ones out there