[s-cars] FMIC Alternatives - ROT thoughts

[Bruce Mendel]

I already chimed.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joseph Pizzimenti" <pizzoman at yahoo.com>
To: "Theodore Chen" <tedebearp at yahoo.com>; "Lewis, Gary M"
<gary.m.lewis2 at boeing.com>; <s-car-list at audifans.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2004 6:32 PM
Subject: RE: [s-cars] FMIC Alternatives - ROT thoughts


> 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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