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"I am more concerned with coming up with cost effective combinations that can be purchased with the budgets of most Owners."
More than what?
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More than catering to the 5% that has a budget of 5K for a couple of bolt ons from a company that has a huge name, but hardly any comparative data.
I'd much rather make progressive packages that people can afford to apply one item at a time and still end up with a known performance package in the end.
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Maybe, with the K&N, the recommendation shifts to clean the filter every ?k miles and replace the oil every ?k, and with that the particulate buildup would be tolerable.
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Exactly. And that would depend on the atmosphere the car is exposed to heavily as well. In a metro area there isn't as much dust and etc as I see here in my rural area with a dirt road to traverse daily. Dust is THE HARDEST thing for an air filter to collect and it collects faster than anything else.
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Please do base your recommendation on your tests and give us some more insight into what your oil tests and tear-downs reveal.
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Thats all I will do. I learned long ago not to condemn a product or process until my own eyes and data have proven that it is not acceptable, that said, I do test everything very objectively and everything is guilty until I prove it innocent. I do not and will not allow other people's experiences to cloud my development and half of what we have developed for all Porsche engines would not have existed if I had "listened" to reports from others or their recommendations about what works and doesn't work.
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Learning is half the fun. Driving the other half?
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Learning is half the fun, perfecting it is the other 49%.... To me driving it is just proving what we have developed and thats only 1% to me...
This is all a challenge, thats the only reason why I ventured into this engine in the first place.