ZS, I here you speak of the problems of the CVT being able to handle tq. However nissan has produced over 1 million CVT's in their heavy duty truck division in Japan. Those trucks seem to do alright with tq.

Some manufacturers can seem to get it others can't. Although i haven't searched high and low for info i have yet to hear of anyone really trying to find the limits of CVT's. More and more cars from the far east will be putting these in more cars in their line ups. Seeing how the CVT being produced nowdays is geared towards light production vehicles and not performance vehicles, i don't think you guys are really in any competition with that technology.

I wish you guys the best of luck. But remember the American market is far different than the European market. You guys over there are brought up with F1 in your blood and are used to paying outrageous amounts of money to mod a vehicle. While over hear people are less impressed with that type of mentality and you may find it much harder to pass of a tranny for 13-14k to the average racer. And you can forget about manufactures at that price point. If that is not your target and you want to sell fewer trannies for the higher price then you still may offset the cost to profit ratio if you can find enough sponsored race teams that have the money to buy a couple at a time. However, I don't see any difficulties with staying in the higher teired market cause they wouldn't think twice about paying that. You just have to make more money from less product. In that sense you may find that you are limiting yourself to depend to heavily on a smaller market. You know when that happens you become much more suseptable to market swings and changes.

Anywhoo, good luck with your project. If and when you decide to move stateside hit me up i would be interested in a possible distributership/partnership.