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Who is the crook that is probably making a **** ton of money off this crap?
As far as I know, there are 2 or 3 main importers that each import a few thousand units at a time so they get them for like $110/each, and then sell them to all of these companies in smaller quantities so that they don't have to make the 100 unit minimum order.
Who is the crook that is probably making a **** ton of money off this crap?
I'd hardly call them crooks.
It's a legit business, it's a product, if there is a market for them and people are happy to buy them....that's just business.
There's plenty of other intakes out there, nobody is forcing anyone to buy these, or any other chinese parts.
Often whether they help performance or not is less relevant to how they intake looks, just look at the number of people using a HiRam that will never see 1k+ or 7k+ where that intake would actually start to offer some benefits.
So clearly they arent buying those for performance either.
TBH some of the cheap sheet metal intakes do look nice, and as with chinese turbos etc over time quality does improve so they're probably not a bad purchase by this stage if they meet your needs.
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