Where's the customers at the Market?
Yes, I am over here now also and glad to be here with Chris and the Gang!
Sorry for the delay in answering as we are pretty busy right now just trying to make sure we can keep the doors open and sell a few kits and motors in this abismal market!
The LSM550 has been built and sold in a small number and we are waiting for some of these installations to hit the water with dialed in results.
We know its on a lot of performance boater minds, but good things take time and remember we premiered this motor in Miami in FEB, 2008 and most everybody just walked by it and did not even realize how impressive this new offering was! We were at that time and are still now at least two years ahead of the market and the boats that were being ordered and sold at that time without even considering this offering!
Believe me when I say we have been trying and Powerboat did an engine article in May 08 and we still had very few takers.
Obviously we are not Mercury ,lmor or others who can produce 10 or 20 of these motors and drop them no charge to the builders and wait for the results and press. We have to wait for real buyers who plop down their hard earned cash on a new boat and want this power or builders who want to invest in a stock boat for a build only order. So far we have only had orders for re-fits on existing boats and that makes introduction difficult and slow.
Guess we should be glad we have a fully developed great performing, lightweight, small dimensional package engine available and just hold on until the industry recovers or just rolls over!
As for pricing I wish we could drop the pricing but this is an very well built, well equipped complete high performance engine with all the bells and whistles and state of the art equipment and features. We tried just taking a stock high performance GM 427 ci. LS aluminum engine and rigging it for marine high performance use and believe me it did not work and will not work. It needs the special pistons and compression ratios, variable cam timing, all forged special internals, blueprinting, careful engineering of systems and electronics to make it work, make over 500HP+ , 540ft/lbs of torque and stay together without supercharging, which won't work in marine high performance decent hour use! Believe me, GM has been trying and guess what, there not there yet because it does not work!! Hence , Mercury is not there with them!!
This is the motor most other engine manufacturers like Mercury, Volvo, Ilmor would like to have available in a good performance boat market. Our real problem is now that market does not exist and we are at the Party , Overdressed and alone on a very sparse Dance Floor!
Anybody got any resonable ides how to revive the performance boat market, I AM ALL EARS!! And our toll free phone is always on to those considering stepping up for the wonderful LSM550 Raylar aluminum engine!!
Best Regards,
Ray @ Raylar
Yes, I am over here now also and glad to be here with Chris and the Gang!
Sorry for the delay in answering as we are pretty busy right now just trying to make sure we can keep the doors open and sell a few kits and motors in this abismal market!
The LSM550 has been built and sold in a small number and we are waiting for some of these installations to hit the water with dialed in results.
We know its on a lot of performance boater minds, but good things take time and remember we premiered this motor in Miami in FEB, 2008 and most everybody just walked by it and did not even realize how impressive this new offering was! We were at that time and are still now at least two years ahead of the market and the boats that were being ordered and sold at that time without even considering this offering!
Believe me when I say we have been trying and Powerboat did an engine article in May 08 and we still had very few takers.
Obviously we are not Mercury ,lmor or others who can produce 10 or 20 of these motors and drop them no charge to the builders and wait for the results and press. We have to wait for real buyers who plop down their hard earned cash on a new boat and want this power or builders who want to invest in a stock boat for a build only order. So far we have only had orders for re-fits on existing boats and that makes introduction difficult and slow.
Guess we should be glad we have a fully developed great performing, lightweight, small dimensional package engine available and just hold on until the industry recovers or just rolls over!
As for pricing I wish we could drop the pricing but this is an very well built, well equipped complete high performance engine with all the bells and whistles and state of the art equipment and features. We tried just taking a stock high performance GM 427 ci. LS aluminum engine and rigging it for marine high performance use and believe me it did not work and will not work. It needs the special pistons and compression ratios, variable cam timing, all forged special internals, blueprinting, careful engineering of systems and electronics to make it work, make over 500HP+ , 540ft/lbs of torque and stay together without supercharging, which won't work in marine high performance decent hour use! Believe me, GM has been trying and guess what, there not there yet because it does not work!! Hence , Mercury is not there with them!!
This is the motor most other engine manufacturers like Mercury, Volvo, Ilmor would like to have available in a good performance boat market. Our real problem is now that market does not exist and we are at the Party , Overdressed and alone on a very sparse Dance Floor!
Anybody got any resonable ides how to revive the performance boat market, I AM ALL EARS!! And our toll free phone is always on to those considering stepping up for the wonderful LSM550 Raylar aluminum engine!!
Best Regards,
Ray @ Raylar
