HKS Supercharger kit
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MAAAANN!!! why in the world wont a company give us a 50 whp (what others sc are giving right?) for about 4k!!!! Sure they might not make much of a profit per unit but i bet most of us would buy it and they can make profit on the number of units sold... damn i can only wish.
it's exactly because there won't be much per-unit profit to be made that there isn't a company that will sell a forced induction kit for that cheap.
no matter how much you want/are led to believe that a company supports the community, if there's little to no money to be made with a specific market segment (say, in this case, the 2is aftermarket segment), they're not going to get into it.
this isn't to say that it's not possible, but i wouldn't spend the time daydreaming.
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R&D costs... marketing costs... operating costs... you get the idea?
by the time you add these costs onto the turbo kit, you can see that it doesn't cost "just" $1k to manufacture/produce/retail a forced induction kit.
case in point, if your logic actually held up, why do you think LMS no longer retails their supercharger kit for the 2is? and why do you think no one else has even attempted to retail a forced induction kit for the 2is?
i'll even take that a step farther and ask this: do you think that those of us in here pieced out their own kit paid "just" $1k?
there's nothing wrong with wanting a forced induction kit, i get that. but on the other hand there's something to be said about making assumptions based on how you think the real world works.
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Procharger's smaller SC unit runs about $2500, Voetech's run about $2300 and the Rotrex is about $2200. I know shops can gets hese cheaper but they don't get hugh break unless you buy more than 3 or 4 units. Like projectdna said add, R&D costs... marketing costs... operating costs and other parts $4500+
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