[s-cars] FMIC Alternatives - ROT thoughts

[Joseph Pizzimenti]

OR we can forego all this pressure drop nonsense and
go with a well engineered water injection system for
less than half the price of a CO intercooler...

Bruce, wanna chime in here, waterboy?


--- Theodore Chen <tedebearp at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> --- "Lewis, Gary M" <gary.m.lewis2 at boeing.com>
> wrote:
> >  
> > > What's the point of developing a perfect $2,000
> intercooler 
> > > if everyone who wants one thinks they can copy
> it for $500; 
> > > or feels they're getting ripped off if they're
> charged $2k?
> > 
> > I did speak to ASW about what they were doing, and
> it sounds like a really
> > nice set-up.  I don't think $2,000 is a rip-off
> for their product as offered.
> >  I just don't have it.  Nor am I stating I will
> build something as good as
> > what they have.  I do believe it will be volumes
> above stock.
> 
> that reflects my thinking as well.  i don't want to
> spend $2k on an
> intercooler for the car.  i don't need to extract
> every ounce of power
> from this car.  i still have the stock K24 turbo,
> with MTM II+ chip and
> RS2 EM.  i just want to get better IC performance so
> the car won't pull
> timing and boost as much.
> 
> > Question tho'.  If I pull this off, it sounds as
> if it will piss off a few of
> > the CO. contingent.  Should I take it off-line?? 
> Seems like every time I
> > bring this up it pisses someone off...
> 
> please don't take it off-line.  several of us do
> want to know what you
> come up with.  the CO contingent's position is
> basically that you can't
> really do it for much less than $2k for any kind of
> custom FMIC, so you
> might as well as pay $2k for the good one.  i'm not
> convinced that you
> can't come up with something substantially better
> than stock for substantially
> less.
> 
> i'm not sure how it happened, but my question about
> what was involved 
> in building an intercooler seems to have been
> interpreted as an attack on 
> the people who spent $2k+ on theirs.  it was just a
> question.  it seems
> like taking two stock intercoolers and welding them
> together may be the
> most cost-effective solution, at least until we see
> what you've got.
> 
> -teddy
> 
> 
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