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[Ti Kan]

Taka wrote:
> Actually, as of last year, Mark had something like $90k into
> that S4tt, in terms of development costs, etc. so you can't do
> it for $30k. :-)

What Javad has done is fantastic, and those who like to tweak and tinker
have a lot to gain by following his work.  However, it is not really
fair to compare his car to the AWE S4 or any other big-dollar tuner demos.

Initial development, especially for productization is obviously going
to be expensive.  All the pieces must be produceable and supportable in
quantity, not to mention all the thoughts that go into ease of installation
and documentation etc.  A home brew that might work great in one car,
but wouldn't fly in a production context.

Once that development is done, though, a customer should hopefully
be able to buy the same setup for much, much less money.

-Ti
2003 A4 1.8T multitronic
2001 S4 biturbo 6-sp
1984 5000S turbo
1980 4000 2.0 5-sp
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