greentahoe

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I bought my complete new STS system for my Tahoe for abouy 4K. I bought a complete Vortech system for $3200. The D1 procharger is 7K and the turbo kits are like 10K!! Its the same head units and intercoolers etc.... why double the price?

dixonk

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Well the turbos are so expensive because there are two of them and a whole lot of plumbing. The rest of the price difference is because they can...plain and simple.

greentahoe

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I understand the two turbo thing, but even on the STS kit I had the GT67 upgrade and the corvette kit uses 2 cheaper 60-1 turbos.

josh2448

When I turboed my civic I spent close to 5K just to get everything "right" and running like I wanted. I have seen kits go for 15k+ for other cars as well. Half of it is parts but the other part is exclusivity , and like dixon said, b/c they can.

sultan(ZR-1)KSA

corvette tax

Z06.0

x2

AnTTi Venom

totally...

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it

El_Diablo

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And the *** tax is why the Vette is for show and the Camaro is for go. Either way, call it an investment in sanity.

dixonk

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Now that is funny!

DeepV

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again for the vette tax

dixonk

iTrader: (8)

Trying pricing a turbo kit for higher end cars. Some kits are going in excess of 20k!!!

twospeed

I was going to say because they can, but then I thought about it and the answer is because we let them.

dixonk

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Well I wish we could all figure a way to kill the tax!

greentahoe

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damn I was hoping to hear I wasnt talking to the right people. Looks s and do the H/C/I and I dont feel comfortable with nitrous

dixonk

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N/A generally ends up costing more than FI if its done right as well. Unless you just stick with H/C....but lets face it no one ever does.

sultan(ZR-1)KSA

also i think that fitting due to tight engine compartmint space makes our FI expencive

03blackZ06

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a&a is running some supercharger special you should check them out. only $4300 for a compleate kit with frontmount, injectors, fuel pump, etc

slothy

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cheapest i seen was 5200 - where is this 4300 kit?

greentahoe

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Ya Ive heard this but havent found it either. Plus I think they just use Vortech and Im not willing to tap my oil pan again. I wasnt too impressed with vortech. I wouldnt even consider anything less than a self contained T trim. Besides, for that price I could get the full H/C/I from Vengeance. Now if A&A offers procharger we may have something. Is there a majic password or something? Im a little disheartened by all the modded corvettes in the Tampa Area, I need to get this thing putting out some respectable power soon!

ls1290

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The difference between the fbody and vette kits is only a couple of hundred dollars. The biggest thing that affects the cost is sales quantities. With fbodies or even Civics, the R&D costs can be spread out over tens of thousands of units. Also most of the shops that develop the kits are fairly small and can not just eat the R&D so they have to pass it along to the customers. Unfortunately that is just how things are.