[F500] Thanks Art - lets bench race!

[A. E. Trier]

On Tue, 6 Jan 2004 17:56:59 -0500 "Gebhardt, Robert (R.)"
<rgebhard at ford.com> writes:
>Art,

>I don't know who you are, but I sure do appreciate all of the 
> information. 

Oh, I was just someone passing by and since F500 seemed to be such a fun
group, I thought I'd just jump in<GGGGGG>.

And Bob, ...your welcome! 

Art


> Art,
> 
> I don't know who you are, but I sure do appreciate all of the 
> information. I vote we stay with the original plan of just a 493 for 
> the future. The KISS rule always worked for me. Hopefully we can 
> finally put all this BS to rest and move on to some serious bench 
> racing! I'll start. Novakars will get the monkey off their backs 
> next year and finish 1,2,3 at the Runoffs! I'll finally get a chance 
> to eat a Tweety Bird sandwich. He'll be so pissed he'll finally make 
> the trek to Waterford for a good ole fashioned butt whooping there 
> as well. Of course, I'll help that along with the tradional and 
> obligatory visitor shots of Cabo Wabo :) I've finally started deep 
> frying turkeys too. Maybe I'll fatten tweety up if he has the 
> cahones to come to my neck of the woods!
> 
> Let's go racing!
> Bob Gebhardt
> #36 Novakar
> Team Novakar Wheel Polisher (I polished them after the promo 
> shots!)
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: A. E. Trier [mailto:qre-shadow at juno.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 5:35 PM
> To: f500 at www.f500.org
> Subject: [F500] 493 availability
> 
> 
> F500 list,
> 
> In recent days, some have posted information that Bombardier was 
> not
> going to put a 493 in a Ski-Doo sled this year. That is true, as far 
> as
> it goes. But, Bombardier has no intention of stopping their use of 
> the
> 493 in their snowmobiles, they are just not shipping any snowmobiles 
> with
> this engine into the United States for the moment. Other countries 
> will
> still be importing snowmobiles with the Rotax 493. Production of 
> this
> engine is ongoing and will continue for quite a long time.
> 
> I've "talked" with Tony Murphy on the subject and, with his 
> permission, I
> have extracted portions of what he told me about the situation. The
> following are Tony's words on the subject:
> 
> "...........I talked about this several months ago, before I went to
> Austria. BUT, no Ski-doo's does not mean 493 engines are to be
> discontinued. As recently as mid-November I had this discussion at 
> Rotax.
> NordTrac, a Bombardier-owned Scandinavian manufacturer of 
> snowmobiles,
> has a commitment to Rotax for the 493 engine through 2007, with a
> possibility of a couple of more years after that. And, remember, 
> Rotax
> produced the 494 non-Rave for us for four years after they ceased
> production. 
> 
> This is a non-issue. Given the limited demand for F500, we can 
> expect to
> have new 493's available through 2008. Perhaps 2010 since these 
> engines
> meet emissions standards until 2010. Perhaps 
> longer.................... 
> There's gonna be a lot of usable stuff around for a long time."
> 
> I hope that puts the prospect of non-availability to rest.
> 
> Art
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