New intake at SEMA: MSD Airforce
No idea. I'm sure some of the vendors on here were given one of these intakes for testing purposes, but I guess I could be wrong. Just thinking about it from a business standpoint, once I had the product perfected and ready to start mass producing, I'd be giving some of the top, most well known and respected, LSx vendors one of these intakes so that some independent testing could be done and thrown up on boards like LS1tech, FB, etc. It would behoove MSD to do this if their product stacks up. I'm sure that it does, as no company is going to spend all that money and put all the effort into producing something that's sub par and won't sell. I know places like Texas Speed, Tick Performance, Vengeance Racing, Tony Mamo, Speed Inc., Brian Tooley, etc. would love to get their hands on one of them and test and see how this product stacks up to the competition. Too bad GMHTP isn't still around because having them do some testing between a LS6 intake, FAST 92mm, FAST 102mm, and this new MSD Atomic intake would have been a very nice piece.
I would too. If I was in charge of this, I would have supplied several different well know LSx shops with one of these intakes for the sole purpose of testing it against the same intakes they will be competing against in the marketplace. From a business stand point, it only makes sense to do that. That way, you have multiple tests from multiple different sources that show your product stacks up and is better than the competition. I'm sure there would be plenty of LSx shops that would be more than happy to conduct these tests. It would not only help MSD, but these shops as well, because they would eventually be selling them.
I would have liked to see them test it against the stock intake. That way it's a known quantity and then it could be compared to all other intakes by extrapolation. For legal reasons they can't/won't disclose what competitor's intake it was...although rumor is that it was a FAST 102 LS7.
Lingenfelter is an independent shop... Why wouldn't THEY (not MSD) post up what intake it was against? They wouldn't face any legal ramifications for simply posting RESULTS.
I personally would like to see Ron @ Vengeance and Mike @ New Era get a hold of this and test it.
I personally would like to see Ron @ Vengeance and Mike @ New Era get a hold of this and test it.
How in the **** is there going to be any legal issues? The intakes they would be testing against are intakes sold in the marketplace, so I don't see how anyone could get in trouble for posting real world results. Who gives a **** what shop it is as long as it's honest **** being done with no agendas behind it.
How in the **** is there going to be any legal issues? The intakes they would be testing against are intakes sold in the marketplace, so I don't see how anyone could get in trouble for posting real world results. Who gives a **** what shop it is as long as it's honest **** being done with no agendas behind it.
You would be surprised what happens in a legal arena. Making statements like that could be considered damaging to a competitors product, and they could go after them to force them to stop saying that they dispute the claims and that those claims hurt the sales of their product.
Look at commercials where anyone makes claims, they won't ever mention the competition due to legal concerns.
That's just stupid in my book. If your product is any good, you shouldn't be affraid of it being tested against the competition. As long as the testing is done in an ethical manner, what does it matter??? Pretty sure I could go out there and test anything from wax to headers and come up with my own findings/report and express what my findings/experience was withou fear of anyone saying **** about it.
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That's just stupid in my book. If your product is any good, you shouldn't be affraid of it being tested against the competition. As long as the testing is done in an ethical manner, what does it matter??? Pretty sure I could go out there and test anything from wax to headers and come up with my own findings/report and express what my findings/experience was withou fear of anyone saying **** about it.
Yeah, I guess I get that, but if you are going to sell both, wouldn't you think it would be fair and equal? I get what you are saying though. I just wish shops and people would be ethical and work toward giving the LSx population the anwers we are looking for.
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Which also makes me ask which injectors will work. I'm a big fan of the white Bosch 3's myself... Identical to stock LS1 injectors, but 42#
