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Originally Posted by Matt@Cosworth
1) I acknowledge the exhaust is not the cheapest and the trouble is with our aftermarket strategy is we sell to a reseller who then sells it onto a dealer who then sells it to the customer
This isn't a policy I'm happy with as we work pretty hard at making the product as good as possible and as a consequence the BOM cost tends to be on the high side for the market and this cost then gets multiplied up 3 times..... our competitors don't do this or if they do then their base cost is a lot less than ours for reasons you can probably work out
And the exhaust is made bespoke to our specification, yes Nameless make it but its a bespoke system not just re-branded
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regarding the lack of customer dyno numbers I believe the ones that have been published have more than backed up our dyno claims
as our power figures are corrected to ISO1585 and we don't use funny fuel or extra cold air (97RON & 25degree C)
as for testing in extreme weather, I'm assuming you mean hot ambient ?
I drove our dev car to the south coast of Spain and back in 40 degrees C and raced it around the Ascari race circuit
the kit was also run for over 300 hours on the test bed and this included a 50 hour full load test where the cycle was 45 seconds of full throttle accelerating through the gears to max revs, with a 15 second idle rest and then repeat until the 50 hour mark was reached
I don't know of any other SC manufacturer that has done this
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My dad had a Cosworth V8 conversion done on his old Ford Sierra back in the 1990's... and it was EPIC.
I personally (through the above) will agree that Cosworth quality is really great... however, the reason I'm not looking at your kit is the cost.
I am busy looking at Harrop and Edelbrock which are your closest competitors, and for a DD guy like me who is after a great experience and doesn't really care about "248whp" vs "251whp"
it's about quality (tick to all 3) + reliability (again, tick to all 3 - but the tuner in particular) + overall nice power and torque... again, a tick to all 3.
So my problem essentially is justifying paying more for your name basically.
If you guys were priced the same as the other 2 kits, then I can almost guarantee you I'd be a customer.
#Justsaying and hopefully it's something Cosworth can solve.