Performance Comments ONLY !!!!
JohnC, We are supposed to stay focused like a laser beam on "Performance" on this part of the website or we're going to be in "agua caliente" with Denny. Drop down to Gatherings or Off Topic / Fishing and we'll hash the west coast fishing opportunities. Besides I'm "hanging on by a thread" of even being allowed to post because I'm almost as disruptive as Gofastsandman, Blue Heron, Donny V, both Kennys and other assorted scallawags which are like modern day grammatical pirates who come here and leave there dang run-on sentences, conjugated verbs and dangling participles festooned about this site.
Therefore, to remedy the aforementioned, please be advised that it is my personal opinion and not necessarily the official position of BRP, their dealers, employees and/or customers that the 90 E-tec, being a three cylinder engine, which puts the crankshaft at 120 degrees causes it to be a "Harmonically balanced design". (Find a radial aircraft engine with and even number of cylinders!) If you go to Homestead and look round for some 40 year old Massey Ferguson tractor or go out to the sod farms out by "the lake" and find some '68 Ford forklift or go to the high rise and find an old beat up diesel Lincoln welder still working everyday you will notice that they have 3 cylinder engines on 'em.
The little 79 cubic inch triple delivers buckets of mid-range torque because I think they may be ported differently than the 115's because they don't have an adjustable expansion chamber. I ran aluminum wheels for 6 years then Ken at Prop Gods in Sarasota sent me a 13-1/4" X 14" Power Tech because I hit the rev. limiter with the 13 and could only turn 4800 with the 15. He hit the "sweet spot".
(Pssst - I'll meet you at "The Freezer" in Homosassa and we'll figure out where the scallops, grouper and hogfish are and discuss this shit in detail over a beer and some shrimp)
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