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Originally Posted by imom
gmsii, in one instance you mentioned the previous history of Oscar Jackson and the separation of KW and JR. To me then, it's really a newer company and this is your first product. I don't want to bring up the separation or start another discussion about that...it's already mentioned, but just saying is that Vortech as example has a very long history in the industry and now it's CARB approved. The pricing is comparable and the community who are interested are weighing our options.
To open up the pricing to same as Vortech, JR, and many others FI kits as a customer isn't a stand out feature. The separate belt is nice, but not sure how much it how big a deal it is... for some who are paranoid about it can carry spare belt and tools. Same argument can be made about spare tire, with BMW, they are useless...just carry tire kit for such and save weight.
Coming from a Z4M, it would be nice to have a little more pep in the 86 platform. Being in Cali, CARB is really important as I don't want to deal with the BS with regulation. KW FI kit looks very nice, just saying the fact it's new and no real reviews yet and proof (KW belief in the FI kit won't cut what's actual)... just saying that the equal to higher pricing to other more mature FI kits just counts as a negative to me.
So unless there are other features of the KW kit such as 10 to 20% more performance over the competition, it doesn't stand out as "THE" kit to buy. Just giving you some feedback... I know it's a new kit and not released yet, but I don't see this as a way for KW to win market share unless you can point something out big to justify the added price premium.
P.s. thank you for the invitation... perhaps I will one day, but need to find out if this is the right system for me.
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The base price of the intercooled Innovate kit is $4200, the JR kit is $4000, the Vortech kit is $4000, the FA20 turbo kit is $4200 with a catted down pipe and a turbo that's worth buying, and the AVO turbo kit is $4400. All of these kits will be pretty close to the same peak output.
All of those prices are close enough that it's not going to be a factor in my purchase. If you're worried about a couple hundrend bucks on a purchase this big, I think you should save your money for something more important.