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You know what just blows my mind about the whole thing is BRP put up some tooling cost for the casting dies to make the basket, they probably got a return ROI on that up front investment at some engine # sale in 08, since then some have got dealers to recoop the cost of the 2009-9 update some of which has come out of BRP mfg budget.

BRP is a world class aircraft manufacture and is sister company to Bombardia Aircraft where they get some of thier technolgy from. You know this division has 3 axis flat bed NC controlled machining and they or BRP can mass produce billet baskets for a fraction of the cost that aftermarket company's can, I'd pay $50 more in MSRP for it.

Also, and I have done these studies before, sometimes in a make(in house) or buy(from a supplier or aftermarket company such as BCS, Hinson, MW's, etc) the BUY shows good if you were to account for all the in house man hours, material cost, 'time and materials' to meet prodution rates. SOME just have more industry expertise then the OEM and SOME stand behind thier product with warratees take the OEM out of the warantee and recall/buletin loop. If not add the aftermarket cost $2-300 to the MSRP.

The casting is weaker than billet, but it's not always about billet and surface finishes, I trusted the "MX/XC" basket assembly configuration since they have more assembly design control than hybrid designs, but some BRP basket design groove is not right yet.

Lets hope BRP installs a simple COST EFFECTIVE billet basket properly designed in the race quad assemblies in the future NO MORE BULITENS or BS so that clutch is fixed once and for all!!! ..If not add the after-market $2-300 basket cost to the 2010 and on MSRP, + $208 update 2008 some 2009's per 2009-9 bulliten.