they tested the pro for several years, who's to say there isn't a better version of a larger displacement two-stroke to stuff in these pro chassis being carted around Roseau under the cover of darkness? Personally, dealer installed turbos just sounds too risky for two strokers. I think a 900+ CC engine sounds far more plausible and a lot easier to make warranty claims on.
There would have to be a lot of regulation and, as said before, "customer proofing" on a factory turbo. I mean, if you've got the turbo, you're not really gonna just leave the thing on 5-6 lbs of boost because your "dealer told you so." They would have to be able to set everything on the turbo from the dealer within certain limits to prevent any catastrophic failure. And that would be fairly impossible, given the fact that we ride at so many different elevations and would need tuning to match.
Now of course they could go with an auto-tune feature, like what power commander has, or they could run a Vi-Pec and let the end user take his sled anywhere without worrying about tuning at all, but at the cost of a system like that, on top of a turbo, and an already $11,500+ snowmobile, does a dealer installed turbo sound like a good idea for a major cooperation with a recent history of major mechanical failures?
Turbos work, if you have them set right, so don't you think all the OEMs would be producing this technology if it was reasonably priced for their bread-and-butter consumers like me with a bone stock Pro RMK? I'd rather buy a big horsepower stock twin than worry about all that extra junk that goes along with a turbo.
You thought getting warranty work done was hard before, could you imagine if they actually sold turbos ?
