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Old 12-28-2005, 05:13 PM
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Well I created the list, but really both engines are covered when you consider that...

1. The FICT engine was / is a "low pressure" injected 2 stroke engine.
2. The ETEC engine on the other hand, is high pressure (stratified) injected 2 stroke engine close in design to the Mercury OPTIMAX.

So really both / all BRP 2 stroke engine's are covered in the BRP section and if needed, Randy can edit the BRP High Press listing to also say ETEC if needed... I tried to stay away from "Model" names as much as possible so the list would not get a mile long when in fact, many are the same just types, either injected or have a carburetor

Where is gets really skewed (which made it even harder to create the engine list) is that some of the older Merc 4 strokes are really painted black Yamaha's till Mercury sued Yamaha for flooding the market with (so called) cheap engines? Really strange move on Merc's part since Yamaha's have pretty much always cost more to install than the same sized Merc... Then you had the roll over from the old Evinrude/Johnson Corp to BRP BUT Suzuki made / makes some of BRP's 4 stoke engines.... Could have been a real confusing mess since we are "not" asking for engine model years.

Really though, all we are just trying to is get a simple cross section of our user base so we can help create site content to meet our memberships needs, and not a actual scientific survey

Dave
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