hahaha cmon dude, you knoi meant the $$$ for thes/c.

 

Bah! No you didn't! I see right through you!

 

you kno im right

 

i'll do it (raises hand)

oh thats right, i bought a modable platform boost included

 

it's funny how so many (all) peoplein this threadwould get completely destroyed by a s/c 2.8 A4. but yet, all of you talk ****

Edited for clarity

 

Badluckaudi was talking about trying to find a 30v to supercharge. I really dont understand how there can be a total lack of s/c 2.8's on this site. Its disapointing. I would gladly bow down to a s/c 2.8. I would gladly own one too.

 

i think there is a total lack of sc 2.8's everywhere.. you hardly ever see them, i know i've only seen 3-4 of them internet and shows combined

 

I think arif and tom ritt might have something to say about that.

your point is a valid one though.

 

i may have worded my post wrong. i meant all the people in this thread. not the forum in general. i like 2.8's that are supercharged. they sound amazing, but they are slow

 

The main problem with that is the $5000 purchase price, plain and simple. Not many of us can swing that, and those who can probably (wisely) realize that there are much better ways to spend/invest that amount of money. And as the 1.8 guys love to remind us, if we wanted to mod for power, we'd have kept looking until we found a 1.8. They're right too - with that kind of price, I'm not sure who PES was marketing to, but I have to think that's a gouging price. I know that they have to recover their investment, but let's face it - the SC has been available for years, and yet they still sell virtually none of them - maybe it's time to drop the price to a more palatable amount and try for volume profit instead of unit profit.

Most people who bought the 2.8 when new (and thus swung the $30k+ pricetag) had no interest in modding, and certainly not any interest in voiding the warranty on their brand-new, expensive car. It's only fairly recently, now that these cars have come within reach of a wider base of people, those being the ones who like to mod, that any real potential for sales of the supercharger kit became a possibility. However, with their pricing, PES has all but guaranteed that they're not ever going to move many of those units. Awhile back someone posted a link to a wholesaler who supposedly sells them for $3300 which is a more realistic (although still big) amount to spend. Maybe it's because of what I've gone through with prior cars, but I for one am not in the market to sink tens of thousands of dollars again into an "investment" that will only depreciate, only to turn around and de-mod in preparation for sale, and find that I'm also getting pennies on the dollar for the mods. I'll do a few things here and there, but by and large, I'm not going to **** that kind of money away again as I have in the past. A lot of younger guys here will probably go through the pain of that process sometime in the future, and will come to the same conclusion. I don't necessarily regret heavily modding prior cars, but where I wouldn't blink at it before, now it comes through as not being the best way to part with money. If I had money to burn, it'd be a different story, but I don't, which is why this is my take on it all.

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