"Reggie Smithers" wrote in message
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Harry Krause wrote:
Reggie Smithers wrote:
K. Smith wrote:
Shortwave Sportfishing wrote:
On 31 Jan 2006 05:24:34 -0800, "Oscar"
wrote:


Anybody hava an opinion on these two engines. I may be making a
boat
purchase soon and have an option on these two models.

Any help is appreciated.

dont get the verado - heavy and its a fuel pig. not to mention
that
the supercharging is a joke - optimax engines beat the snot out of
verados in side-by-side tests for speed, hole shots, etc.

optimax is reasonably better in fuel efficiency, weight and power.

buy a boat with etecs - lighter, faster, more efficient.
The verado might cost a little more but it will be reliable & still
be "available" off into the future, meaning your boat will still be
worth something.

The Optimax engines were more reliable than the ficht now marketed
as E-tec, mainly because the Optimaxes are not true direct
injection.

Don't be hoodwinked into anything remotely associated with Ficht
there are literally thousands upon thousands of people who will
confirm the technology is a failure. Even if a particular engine
hasn't failed (yet:-)) 100% of boats suffer to reduction in resale
becasue of the risky engine.

K
Karen,
Via Goggle, I looked for any articles or E-Tec problems. I could not
find any. While there might be problems with E-Tec down the road, no
E-Tec engine will suffer a reduction in resale.

Do you have any proof via boat resale prices, that E-Tec will devalue
in resale or are you basing that on the Ficht's being discontinued?



Ms. Smith is a well-known troll. Why are you feeding her?

(You know, the same questions you ask when I slamdunk Snipper for his
anti-Semitism.)

:}
Harry,
Karen does a great job of creating some very lively on topic debates,
which should always be encouraged, even if we disagree.
Karen believes what she says. My question is a polite way of seeing if
her beliefs are based on anything factual or just a gut feel. If her
belief is based upon a gut feel, those newbies who do not know of
Karen's long term hard on for Ficht, can decide if her opinion is more
valuable than those who own E-Tec.

Let me just remind you all that stories about Ficht being unreliable and
so forth were pretty hard to come by while they were being manufactured.
Any stories were dismissed as "isolated" although in retrospect there
were some items on a couple of sites catering to dealers etc that by
reading between the lines could be construed as hints.

The whole incident reminds me of certain cars that got good reviews when
introduced only to get the "what a piece of crap, it was never any good"
after they were gone. Vega comes to mind. Popular Science with article
on the wonderful new aluminum block with anodized bore, and what an
advance it was. Or go back to the Caddy 4/6/8 and read the original
articles.

Same with Ficht.

How many etecs have been sold?

How many folks that post to this group have one?


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