That engine is not listed for 2008. Thanks ... Jay Novak
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of dan hester Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2007 9:54 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [F500] F500/F600 Proposal .. I blame solo guys well actually thats not true Arctic cat is putting a 500 efi 2 stroke suzuki engine in the f5 sled still dan >From: "Jay Novak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [email protected] >To: <[email protected]> >Subject: RE: [F500] F500/F600 Proposal .. I blame solo guys >Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 09:12:39 -0400 > >The reason that the 493 is out of production has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do >with our use or non use of the engine. Rotax stopped producing the engine >due to snowmobile marketing issues. The same reason there are no other >production 500cc 2 stroke engines being produced for snowmobiles anymore. > >Thanks ... Jay Novak > > >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of John >Whitling >Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2007 8:13 AM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [F500] F500/F600 Proposal .. I blame solo guys > > >Regarding the comment below .. >Chuck >Certainly you're entitled your opinion, regarding solo participants >here. IMO the things that derailed the 493 launch center around (1) the >poor conversion from metric to imperial measure of a Rotax dyno chart, >(2) the lack of people willing to donate anything to do dyno testing, >(3) the lack of anything more than subjective and incomplete data by the >team that was given/loaned a 493 for testing. > >One last thing .. I do not recall anybody in the debate proposing a 50 >lb weight penalty to the 493, as the board did. Maybe the board actually >thought about it and felt it was quite important to make sure that they >didn't invalidate the 494s which even today are regarded as very good >motors for the class. > >McAbee, Chuck wrote: > > >My > >observation of the 493 debacle, holds the vocal SOLO participants > >responsible for the 50 pound weight penalty that was applied to the > >engine in RACING and effectively killed it as a commercially viable > >endeavor. > >[demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type text/x-vcard which had a name >of >jwhit.vcf] > >-- >No virus found in this incoming message. >Checked by AVG Free Edition. >Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 268.18.18/733 - Release Date: 3/25/2007 >11:07 AM > >-- >No virus found in this outgoing message. >Checked by AVG Free Edition. >Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 268.18.18/733 - Release Date: 3/25/2007 >11:07 AM -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 268.18.18/734 - Release Date: 3/26/2007 2:31 PM -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 268.18.18/734 - Release Date: 3/26/2007 2:31 PM ________________________________ FormulaCar Magazine - A Proud Supporter of Formula 500 The Official Publication of Junior Formula Car Racing Subscribe Today! www.formulacarmag.com or 519-624-2003 _________________________________ _______________________________________________ F500 mailing list - [email protected] To unsubscribe or change options please visit: http://f500.org/mailman/listinfo/f500 *** Please, DO NOT send unsubscribe requests to the mailing list! ***
