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Graham very true dirk, but alas there are two problems, some are only interested in making as much money as possible, second many customers are magpies believing more bling is better.
recently i completed an engine which had many many expensive parts which it did not need, i told the owner he didn't need them but he bought them himself anyway, the result is he had to spend even more money with me to make these expensive parts actually work, in the end the engine cost him so much money he had to sell it!
in the old days when i first started racing and winning people were very impressed with my engine, when i would tell them although almost everything about the engine was modified the only actual the performance parts in it were a camshaft and uprated valve springs, suddenly they were less impressed with the engine. i never understood how that 200bhp form a near standard engine wasnt impressive, but 200bhp from an engine with all steel and forged internals costing £££££ was. Neither did my mate who 30-40 years age used to be in the tuning business, his rubber x/flows used to regularly beat top spec burton all steel engines but most people preferred to spend 4 times the cost on something no faster, its still the same today!
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