Originally posted by Force Fed 23
But what are you doing? You're buying a kit and bolting it on (hopefully). Someone is still doing the cutting and welding, I just can't see the difference.
going off of this assumption, NOBODY really ever does the work on their cars. In order to actually "do the work" on a turbo, you would have to mine the metal, forge it, cast it, form it in to a turbo housing, form the bearings inside, etc...
technically, 95% of the work that we do to our mustangs in "bolt on". Very little of it is actual fabrication of parts. If the man wants to buy a kit and put it together, I can definitely relate to the feeling of satisfaction in looking at a finished product and saying "i put that together...i did the work".
Would it be different if he bought each component separately and pieced it together instead of buying a kit? I think that if there is a well rounded kit containing the parts that you would choose anyway and it was a substantial savings to purchase in kit form, would that not be the ideal route to take?
Sorry...i'm not trying to be an ass, either. We have a lot of mustang kids here in Memphis who have never even changed oil, but they talk about how awesome their mustang is...but it's not built, it's bought.
my 2/5 of a nickel.