These losses are due to engineering compromises that always occur when designing an entire power train package. High performance customers and engineers alike do not like the word “compromise”, but it’s a fact of life. Product cost, standardization in tooling, and environmental issues are all things that have to be considered when designing any product.In a CVT transmission, standardization in tooling seams to be the driving force of many engineering decisions. All four major snowmobile manufacturers use the same clutch on a variety of different machines.
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