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James Hebert wrote:
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I also like to see more data and like to know where the original post
came from.

Here the reference to "the original post" is to a comment that three
Evinrude E-TEC motors had blown up at a fishing tournament held in Lake
Erie around July 24, 2005

[Karen replies]
These are a few just for you:

http://continuouswave.com/ubb/Forum4/HTML/003712.html


Thanks for citing my website as a part of your effort to discredit the
E-TEC, but I am afraid the article you cited contains not one word of
any problems with the E-TEC motor at a fishing tournament in Lake Erie
around July 24, 2005. As a matter of fact, all the articles in the cited
thread were posted about a week before the fishing tournament held in
Lake Erie around July 24, 2005.

I don't see how they corroborate the initial claim about all of these
engines blowing up. I am local to that area and have not heard anything
about it.


Aussie rules?

I do wonder about the Australian origin of Karen's E-TEC criticism. The
principal competitor to E-TEC in the direct-injection business is
Orbital, an Australian company whose products are licensed to Mercury
for their OptiMax. Do we hear these same concerns about OptiMax?

Also, now that the Bombardier manufacturing facility in Wisconsin where
the E-TEC injector is made has been sold to a company owned in part by
Orbital, will this criticism let up?

Here are the details of that recently announced bit of business, from an
article I posted some time ago on CONTINUOUSWAVE.COM.

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MORE NEWS ON BRP SALE OF DELAVAN
by Jim Hebert
CONTINUOUSWAVE.COM
11-14-2005

It seemed to come as a surprise, but the announcement of the sale of
Bombardier's facility in Delavan, Wisconsin, to Synerject was
foreshadowed one year in advance. On November 10, 2004 the intention to
sell the Delavan plant was announced by Bombardier in Quebec. To the
very same day a year later, word came that the plant in east-central
Wisconsin which manufactures the fuel injectors and electronic engine
controllers for Evinrude and Johnson outboard motors was sold. The
announcement came in the form of a press release from Australia's
ORBITAL. The actual buyer will be Synerject, a U.S.-based 50:50 joint
venture between Orbital and Siemens VDO Automotive.

Synerject is the non-vehicle marketing and manufacturing arm for Siemens
VDO fuel injectors and the Orbtial Combustion Process (OCP) controls.
The firm is the supplier of the air-assisted direct injection hardware
used in the Mercury OptiMax two-stroke outboards. It will now take over
the manufacture of Bombardier's E-TEC fuel injectors. However, BRP will
retain the intellectual property rights to their patented designs.

Rod Houston, CEO of Synerject, explained the rationale behind the
purchase. The Delavan plant, he said, "is complementary to Synerject's
core business of manufacturing and supplying engine management modules
for the non-automotive market." He expects the acquisition to "bring a
significant increase in revenue and make a material contribution to
Synerject's growth."

When asked about the E-TEC fuel injector, he made clear that "the
transaction involves only assets relating to the manufacture of the fuel
injectors and engine management modules. There'll be no transfer of
intellectual property rights for E-TEC to Synerject. Synerject continues
to have the exclusive rights to the OCP system and this continues to be
a key focus of Synerject."

It is expected that long-term contracts will assure BRP of a steady
supply of the E-TEC injectors, a prime component of their new line of
outboard motors. Sales of E-TEC engines are showing strong growth. Roche
Lambert recently sent very enthusiastic notices to the Bombardier
outboard dealer network highlighting impressive sales figures and growth
figures over 200-percent from a year ago.

Synerject foresees strong growth in their non-vehicular markets,
particular in components and controllers for motorcycles, which are
expected to show very strong sales growth in developing Asia markets
like China and India.

The sale makes strange bedfellows of Mercury and Evinrude. The prime
components of their two-stroke engine fuel injection systems will now be
manufactured by a common supplier, although using completely different
technologies.

For the approximately 60 employees at the Delavan plant, the notice of a
buyer is probably very welcome after a year of suspense.

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