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Originally Posted by trevorovert
I'm not sure how I feel about it.
Shiv, you said "Hopefully what we have to offer will make some people who never thought of going FI reconsider" but I am struggling to find this to be true. At $3800, this really doesn't make me reconsider anything.
of course, there isn't much you can do about it. It's a vortech unit. It's expensive. It is a good price. But it's just not "make me reconsider" price. It's only a couple hundred of bucks off of the tuner version.
plus I'm not a fan of making some of the modifications to the car that the vortech kit requires. IIRC, there's some grinding, etc. looks like I'll be staying NA for a while.
if vishnu wants to lead the way with FI, I believe it will take building a custom open flash kit and offering it at a low price. Somewhere around $3k +-$200 would make me reconsider FI.
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Not to speak for Shiv, but the way I see it...
If $600 is the make or break amount for your FI decision, then perhaps full time FI isn't your best option. There are ancillary component upgrade costs (brakes, tires, etc) associated with increasing engine power this much that will price you above that $600 difference.
Also, even with extensive testing of kit and tune (by their respective manufacturers (Vortech & Vishnu), there are the inherent cost risks associated with modifying and tuning any engine that also could exist above that $600 difference.
Perhaps that's why Shiv qualified his statement with the word "some" (above in
bold green). I chose the Phantom ESC + Shiv's tune via OFT + OFH as it fit my budget and qualifying factors. I will upgrade once my needs reflect this. However the OFT300 has definitely got me reconsidering full-time FI, probably sooner than I thought I might.
