monstar
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Yes you are right, if someone asks for advice best not tell them the best advice or give it lest they don't want to hear it.I think it would be fair to say monstar not everyone here (or many for that fact) shares your interest and understanding of engine dynamics and dollars spent VS efficency/performance gains. The fact is all they want to do is take their pride and joy somewhere where they trust the people working on the car and they can drive away with X amount of claimed KW's, there's nothing wrong with that and its a large market that your Walkinshaw/Harrop/etc groups make alot of money from. Then there's the type that spend upteen hours researching every last detail of each component and its flow on effect before forming an opinion whether to buy it, and you know they are going to install it themselves because they don't trust any two-bit mechanic to do the job right. They do it because they love it, the complexity and detail, but not everyone gets there jollies by studying heat engines in thermodynamics. We're all different but the Walky/Harrop brigade don't need to hear how they're being ripped off, for them its fast, its easy and some would claim its added value. There's no right or wrong, its just what suits. Sure you may be just wanting to offer advice but I think its advice they don't want to hear.
That said, from my point of view best bang for buck mod to a LS3 is the cam and a tune, its all in the cam evidenty. One question, in stop start traffic does a OTR CAI draw in hot air radiated off the radiator causing the thermo's to cycle constantly?
Same with precise information and useful detail, leave that buried and dumb the whole experience down to one or two key words, and a binary proposition - bad or good.
Well sure there's lots here to do that and so be it but that's where I come in Martin, I sure as shit am no brand marketing sycophant and leave the brand out of the conversation most of the time. Like I leave the stickers off my car.
But always happy to educate when asked directly about value, efficiency and performance. I don't provide information (that is not a thread starter) without being asked directly. Point being the world is full of wood ducks and young bulls, honest help without percuniary interest is my gig.