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Originally Posted by melo15fan15
sancho, i disagree. i agree with illin in the fact that if the X cost 2500-3000 they would sell 5 times as many. i would have boughten one a damn long time ago. I went with n20 because (compared to other vehicles) the x charger is HUGELY overpriced. Whether its great or not. what illin is saying is whether you sell few of a high priced product or alot of a low priced product then money wise its the same for the maker. However, it would provide much more interest to the people who own 4.0 's if it was less $
For the price, i'll never buy an xcharger. Nitrous is suitable for 1/5th of the cost
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I would put my savings down that the every single X kit will be more reliable than that X Carbon supercharger posted earlier. Same goes to all the cheap import turbo kits out there. Higher quality parts, GENUINE Magnuson/Eaton Supercharger, no iffy proprietary housing, exceptional ease of installation and instructions, and second-to-none customer service. I think any X-Charger owner will tell you that Dave is a good guy and is not out to screw anyone over with pricing. He has to turn a profit. I don't think he has the resources of a larger company to make more units simultaneously, which would greatly bring down costs.
If he could sell them for $2500, he would. He is not stupid, he knows he would sell more if they were cheaper.
If you haven't noticed, any performance parts for hondas and other imports are WAY cheaper. That's because the market for them is huge - thanks to the fast and furious, everyone who owns a honda thinks they have a race car. Sure, there are tons of v6 stangs, but not a TON of people that are looking to slap on F/I like all the ricers in the various hondas, acuras, toyotas, etc. Also note that the 4.0 stang has only been in production since 05, so there really aren't that many 4.0 stangs out there when you compare to all the imports out there. The demand for the performance parts of those imports is WAY greater than for our v6 stangs, allowing companies to make tons of their parts to bring down costs because they know all the ricers out there will buy them up.
The point I am trying to make is that Dave at EE is not trying to screw anyone with his pricing, it's just what he has to do to keep in business. And making remarks that he is screwing people over is likely to perturb some people on here who know him personally.