I am in the process of buying a used mud buddy sport that is a tall transom but my boat is a short transom. I wanted to see if anyone is interested in trading before I started adding on to the transom

Don't trade. Build up your transom!

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if you don't get the point now, you never will

Is there an advantage to the tall? I t doesn't seem like there would be anymore reach or ability to dig deeper

how close to the water do you like your motor?

I just want it to be where it will work the best. The motor I'm getting is a tall transom which if I'm not wrong is designed for a 21" transom, my transom height is 16". I think that's gonna be way too low in the water

it performs best when it is matched short to short tal to tall.
Most people prefer the tall transom because it reduces back splash and you motor is further away from the water

I'm really not worried about how far the motor it's self is from the water. The only advantage I could see from that is the boat could sink in 5" more water before drowning out. I just felt it was easier to swap parts than to weld the boat, but don't mind doing either. After reading the replies it seemed lik there was a performance difference between the two

i am not sure as to how hard it would be to swap on a mud buddy. me personally i would build the transom up. to each his own thou

I was just trying to figure out what the x2-x10 was all about. Seems like there was a pretty good reason for staying with the tall transom the way you said that

keeping my motor away from the water is a good reason

Sounds like a drag car would be a better hobby then

ok come back and i will tell you what to do when you motor floods. if you are to stubborn to hear the truth then you have what is coming. I am not saying that it is guaranteed to happen, but that one time you hit the bank a little to hard or your trailer goes off a steep ramp. you will remember

Think about this, with a short transom you are 4" closer to sinking ALL THE TIME vs a tall transom.

Rolling up on a stump or stopping on the wrong wake can make the back of the boat go under with one of these heavy motors.
Build the transom up to match the motor and be happy dammit!

I appreciate the info guess I miss understood you sounded like you were saying to keep water from splashing on the motor

not a hard conversion, i just done mine. i have the housing and belt for short transon still.

Ill trade u a short for.your tall if your really want to

I have my old short transom housing and belt I'll sell if you want it. I converted mine from short to tall

come to a dead stop in a tall transom a good amount of water comes in.. dead stop in a short transom and you could be sol

Put it on a jack plate