"Boatriggr" wrote in message
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Your view stinks.While I normally just lurk, I can't stand your
attitude to
reputable posters.
Why don't you offer a solution rather than the long boring posts
spruiking your
biased opinion? And why don't you and your blokes build a better
motor? By
reading your posts you certainly pretend to have the knowledge!
I saw the diesel outboard contraption you have been spruiking for
years.If
that's a better motor than the ficht or e tech why don't your blokes
bring it
to market?

I am not an OMC fan. In fact I worked for the competition for a long
time. BUT
I hope they succeed. Their new products are doing well. I wonder how
many you
personally have seen or worked on?

I am certain OMC would love to have you on board to solve all of their
problems. You can become a famous for turning around a wonderful
company with a
great heritage.Now that would be something to be proud of.
Instead you spend your days in the newsgroup insulting nice people
with your
spruiking instead of offering a solution. Do us all a favor and put
you and
your blokes enormous knowledge to do some good instead of being so
negative.

Thank you, Happy Holidays.
BR

As a man of science and a neutral mercury owner, let me try to summarize
the background.

OMC was a large and well respected manufacturer of Outboard motors
(don't laugh clams) with stockholders and many long time employees.
Long about the time the EPA put emission limits on outboards they came
out with a line of outboards based on FICHT technology which they
purchased, along with the company, from its german inventors. FICHT was
based on a solenoid forcing gas through an orifice directly into the
cylinder.

At about the same time, 1998 model year, OMC had quality and reliability
problems, especially with the 150 hp Ficht motors. These and other
problems culminated with OMC filing bankruptcy and liquidating, with the
assets being purchased by Bombardier. During this difficult time OMC
and the boating press and allegedly some of the dealer related folks on
rec.boats were less than forthcoming about the scope and cause of the
problems. Several rounds of fixes were rolled out to the field, and
modifications were made to following years' models.

Now Bombardier is selling the line of motors and once again the public
is being told that the problems are in the past and the motors are
reliable. And there is this new or modified technology that is even
better. The press is writing glowing articles.

I am unaware of any comprehensive objective data available to the public
on the reliability and quality of various models and vintages of OMC
products. This is also true for Mercury, Yamaha, and all other brands.

Karen has a personal distaste for the dealer system, and in addition
believes that there is a fundamental problem which prevents an emissions
clean two stroke from being reliable. She says this is due to the high
heat produced by lean operation leading to detonation on throttle up.

The OMC employees, customers, and stockholders paid a high price for the
mismanagement and problems of the past. One cannot help feeling sorrow
for their experience. Who has the story right shall be revealed in the
next few years.

As an individual with no data except a past mea culpa from OMC
management, it is impossible for me to know what the truth is. I guess
you pays your money and you takes your chances.

del cecchi