Any reason to buy Honda over Yahama? Not as far as I am concerned.. HOWEVER.
There is one: Honda uses a genuine fuel pump and thus can suck gasoline out of an external "Extended run" tank if you use the special fuel cap included with the kit.. I do not think Yahama has this extended run feature.
Some folks comment on the proliferation of Honda dealers that can work on them v/s the relative lack of Yahama factory authorized service centers. Frankly I think they are fooling themselves, and of course MURPHY says it will never fail in the driveway of such a shop (Either one)
Now: Why buy Yahama instead of Honda.. Here we have some talking points.
As you noted 2,000 running 2400 peak, instead of 2000 peak and what 1760 running, Makes a big difference when you need to run the A/C. 2400 MIGHT do it where 2000 won't (kick start the thing) epically if you have a soft start kit.
Bearings.. Now this comes from a biases source (Yahama sales) but he said the Yahama has better bearings. These last longer, result in lower fuel consumption and.. The Yahama is 1dB quieter than the Honda (not enough to notice but a dB is 10th of a Bell after all).
