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Very easy for you to say, sat in your armchair, Mike. I'd like to see you do it and survive as a business.
Whereas I appreciate "it's not worth buying" in
your opinion, I really don't think you should make people feel they are "magpies/name whores" or other derogatory terms, if they buy the GruppeM.
Regardless of the 'good sense' and theory about saving money every which way you can, I wouldn't mind betting that if a company did offer the two alternatives of plastic and CF, they would still sell enough in CF.
Plastic is a terrible conductor of heat and don't forget it still in 99% of cases will use the OEM PLASTIC airbox that's wrapped around a nice hot engine... negating the point of the carbon against plastic. I'll bet pound to a penny there'd be no measurable difference in performance between the two if you used a clone mould.
....I was talking
generally about CF in response to stealth's post. I agree that the GruppeM will probably be of more benefit if it fed directly to a pipe rather than via the oem plastic box.
I don't expect there would be significant difference in performance if GruppeM used plastic instead of CF, but I don't have any hesitation in deciding which I'd prefer to see under my hood.
Your whole approach is never to spend more money on anything if you can buy something similar for less, and mine is if I've got the money available and I want something then I simply buy it because I can't take the money with me - I'll doubtless die poor but very happy. I respect your attitude but I don't think the same way.
Bottom line is Each To Their Own