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Originally Posted by Blown_xa
I understand your hesitance to believe such a healty gain is achievable, but let me educate you a bit (even though you have been messing around with cars for longer than I have been alive ). Short of being on an F1 team, PTUNING truely researches and develops their components. The shop FRS is nearing 1000 dyno pulls, and beyond that the tuner has countless hours invested in tuning various setups on FT86's. This allows the staff to have great knowledge on what works and what doesn't . The FT86 isn't the first platform PTUNING has dabbled with, they hands down have the best Scion tc1, tc2, and s2000 turbo kit on the market. While other companies ( who even had the word ''development'' in their company name) rushed to be the first on the market with a turbo kit, PTUNING took the time to release a quality TESTED product. Good example , a popular company ''developed'' a kit without bead rolled charge pipes ( which was later updated ) . Same company had issues with cracking manifolds ( which was later updated ) . Same company used a draw thru MAF design ( which was later updated to blow through ) . That same company also sold a ''developed'' copper exhaust manifold gasket for their kit, which always leaked. These are things high end companies take into account, to pull away from the rest. When a product is produced from PTUNING, you don't have to worry about revisions because the revisions were done pre-production as result of dyno testing, track testing. The header being released, was redone 3 times. This was a result of finding potential gains and also quality control. The 40whp is real, combine the best exhaust, the best header, and the best tuner... and those numbers reflect that.
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Well young man, that is great that ptuning (as I am under the presumption you work for said company) do your homework. Any manufacturer of a "quality" product
SHOULD be doing their homework. With all due respect to you and you're employer, a cookie
will not be rewarded for doing your due diligence as a "quality" or "developed" manufacturer. It is to be
expected that you do research and development. Revisions are a good thing when and if mistakes are learned from and adapted to. After-all, if this where not true, we would be still cavemen and giraffes would have short necks etc. Adapt to survive is essentially Darwinism. Some of the "best" companies out there do this every few quarters with a new product. Ever hear of this little company called Apple? Or possibly Samsung? I am sure you have. These are prime examples of adapting with evolution. On the story of adaption, I will share some history for you about hot-roding you may not know.
You're probably too young to remember this, but back in the late 80-90s, a large connecting rod manufacturer was making rods for Nascar (Richard Petty endorsed) with an I-beam rod design that failed miserably. (Plenty of carnage on these very expensive race motors). They found the limitations of their design the hard way. The rod manufacturer revamped the rod design and went forward only to have another issue in the early 90s due to a rod bolt issue from the supplier. That didn't stop them either. The went to a different rod bolt manufacturer and continued on. They are still in business today producing fine products and designing the factory C6 Z06 rods for General Motors.
So moral of the story is that I personally don't care how many rodeos you have been down. If I feel that you have integrity, a quality, well made product and you say it does something and it does everything you claim it does, then you sir will win my sale. I am a relatively easy person to appease. I just do not like to be lied to or mislead.
