K. Smith wrote:
Shortwave Sportfishing wrote:
On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 16:15:13 -0500, DSK wrote:


Here's a boating topic with room for general & specific observations,
theory, opinion, fact, sea stories. Let's see it.

Why would you choose one type of propulsion over another?


two cycle outboards. with the new injection technology available to
almost every manufacturer, reliability and overall lighter weights,
new lubrications and overall performance, two stroke outboards have it
hands down over four stroke, inboards and diesels.


Gee Tom, so your arm is much better I see:-) or did you let the other
one go for a minute???

The only manufacturer still trying to make 2 stroke OBs is the new
French kid who got it as a bequeath from Bombardier who got it at the
OMC bankruptcy auction great pedigree yes??? (talk about couldn't give
it away). Using the failed technology of Ficht which was so
comprehensively shown to be faulty that it brought an American icon Co
down.

The so called changes, apart from dumping the name Ficht of course, are
only to deal with the symptoms of the problem & don't in any manner
address the core issue, which I say is; too low an injection pressure,
the fuel is not sufficiently atomised, the mixture is deliberately & EPA
necessarily extremely lean at low to medium revs, the lubrication is
very risky & they've yet to be shown to be anything other than an
elcheapo attempt to rip people off with more Ficht.

Their so called "improvements" absolutely confirm the case against them;

(i) "Special" high melting temp alloy for the pistons why??? because
the poorly atomised lean fuel creates excessive heat in the pistons &
when they looked at dead Fichts amateur (see more French:-)) like they
though hey we know we'll make the pistons higher melting point!!! What a
joke!!! Long long before even the lowest of tech aluminium alloys even
looks like getting too hot the engine is in terminal detonation caused
by excess heat.

(ii) "Special" treated bores why??? again see (i) these idiots saw
damaged bores after almost certain detonation failures & again figured
OK we'll make the bores tougher!!! What a joke!!!.

(iii) New plumbing why???? Well maybe because the USCG made
Bombardier when they owned it, do a safety recall of Fichts because the
vibration of detonation was allowing the pressurised fuel supply to leak
& fire was a risk??, of course the same detonation was blowing injectors
out of the heads!!! Seriously given that injectors seem to stay in
diesel cyl heads?? ask yourself what the f .................is going on
in there??? Again the same hmmmmmmmmmmmmm lets just make it stronger so
it might stay they more often????? What a joke!!!

(iv) Special dealer only oil is optionally "recommended" why???? Is
it because the normal oil can't stand up too the excess heat generated
by the combo of poor atomisation & lean mixture so gets baked behind the
rings etc???? Have they even further reduced the amounts of oil??? It
seems like the same thinking as i, ii & iii so gee lets see we have an
oil baking problem how can we reduce that ???? Hey lets just reduce the
oil!!!! What a joke!!!!!

Already these engines are sounding just like Ficht, lots of software
"upgrades" & reports of failures. Of course the supporters mostly the
sad owners who can see their boat value sinking (literally) demand
forensic proof, but gee even at their worst on OMC's own admission 4 out
of 5 didn't fail:-) Anyone want a buy a lottery ticket??? good odds 4
outta 5 are winners, the only tricky bit is the tickets can be up around
$15000 a throw:-) 5 outta 5 suffer boat value loss but hey don't blame
me you wanted to go gambling.

K
Tom,
What is the difference between E-Tec and Ficht?

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Reggie
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