Hangkai 3.6 hp River run test & Review

Overview of the Hangkai outboard boat motor. Test run on the Wabash river with current.

[pascalpiqued]

Calm and informative narration and filmed very well. Congratulations from France. Certainly looking forward to more of the same.

[jamesharper]

love the video, but there is no accurate way to convert cc to hp, by googling it. cc is a measure of displacement, and not a measurement of power output in any way at all.

[austinjohnson]

i have the same raft, you pimped your out really well.

[tdleedom]

I really like your reviews on this engine. I ran across them while researching this motor. I look forward to more of them as you get more time on the motor.

As stated by others, you can produce different amounts of horsepower from the same size engines, but I'm guessing this is the way Hangkai got their numbers.

Horsepower is a unit of measurement of power developed by engineer James Watt in the late 18th century. Although its original purpose was to compare the output of steam engines with the power of horses (hence its name), it has since been adopted as a unit of measurement for all sorts of engines.

Mechanical Horsepower, hp(I)—550 foot-pounds per second, approximately 745.7 watts. The most common definition of horsepower, mechanical horsepower is the horsepower James Watt invented in 1782.

- 3.6 Mechanical Horsepower is equivalent to 2, 684.520 Watts (2.68Kw).

- Hangkai specs for this motor: 3.6HP 2.6KW 55cc

[andrzejslosarczyk]

You did a great review and nice smart upgrade with those moutings and isolation, thx

[BoilerDan]

I agree with the overall quality of the Intex. I don’t go far in it and extra cautious. It’s very inexpensive, but also cheap! I’ll stick with it for another season, then check out your advice.
Thanks

[davidsimpson]

cc is just the engine size you could theoretically obtain just about any HP with any given cc. and 2 and 4 stroke engines with vary greatly as well. BTW good videos I may add. Very thorough. I was going to purchase one of those but instead decided to go with a 55 lb thrust electric trolling motor on mine.

[ah]

Hey @Boilerdan1, I have a question. I took my motor out last week and I tried my absolute best to keep the motor at the what I judged to be the half way mark of the throttle, in other words, from the extent to which the throttle turns, I turned it only half way. At some point, while the engine was on, I accidentally turned the throttle nearly to full and it sounded to me as though the motor didn't speed up, meaning it didn't sound like I was getting more RPMs during the brief few seconds that the throttle was nearly wide open. This makes me wonder... lets say for arguments sake that zero degrees is idle throttle, and just choosing an arbitrary number here, lets say ninety degrees is the full extent to which the throttle turns... that said would you say that half throttle was at 45 degrees? And by extension, that full throttle was at 90 degrees? I am just afraid that I may have been pushing my motor too hard during this break in period accidentally. In all, I probably ran the motor for a total of an hour and a half at absolute maximum, in bursts of 15-30 minutes. I hope I am getting my meaning across properly. Thanks again in advance.

[davidgraves]

I just ordered this motor. I'm running a 24v 86lb thrust trolling motor on my jon boat, but I wanted a backup in case the batteries died. It looks like performance is about the same

[labcambravo]

I Just see this video, thanks for.. the warnings, but i still whith 1 doubt, how many minutes, or hours i can used? Whithout stop?

[archie]

best sound deadening is ear plugs for motor and wife

[handerson]

Hello. I have a 10ft John boat. I want to know where did you get that portable boat trailer from. Tsk

[F-N-C]

It sounds pretty loud, does it quiet down after being warmed up? I was thinking bout getting one for trolling in my 9ft Colorado XT pontoon.

[oswaldorequena]

amigo no tienes video de el motor eléctrico de 65 lbs

[Thyrooo]

I'm currently confused about whether to buy the 2-stroke 3.6 hp or 4-stroke 4 hp for the Intex Mariner 4. Which one do you think is better?

[boblynn]

dan : how's te hangkai working out? thanks for the video. bob

[robsevell]

The website you used is calculating four stroke displacement versus horsepower.
A better estimate is 15 to 17cc per horse power on average.
If you use 17cc per hp, you come out with 3.2hp.
I think they're going with 15cc per horse power and that comes out to 3.6hp.
That being said, some of the videos I've seen using 12 foot jon boats have 6hp Merc's and Evinrudes on plane moving close to 20mph and the Hangkai 6hp looking very slow.
I'd love to see one boat use each of the motors for a fair comparison of thrust and speed.

[ZZCopter]

Thanks for the video with sound.. Now I know I wont buy such a motor. The gears are just crying "kill me now" :-D

[HunterMabeeFilms]

Have you sorted out the thrust issue with the motor dragging? What would you suggest

[mrgrivers]

I enjoyed your vid. I especially liked the way you plan to fix the motor mount drag problem. Just might work. I'd love to see the results.