Slug420,
You're pretty close to our reasons for not posting our dyno plot.
Developing a product is basically a gamble. The inventor hopes that their ideas will have results which will provide a product that will sell due to the overall results. They will gamble designing the product and hopefully get it right within a few tries, go to the dyno and hopefully have results from all of their hard work. What makes it easier is the simple fact that another company made some gains and they are able to feel confident that they can do the same by making a similar product. However, the difference is that when a product is finished, another individual can simply look at the photos and make their version based on the photos and design specifications. They can cut the costs soley based on the R&D they didn't spend the time/money on. Basically, the investment was minimal. Furthermore, most of these businesses are home based on they do not have the overhead of running a full fabrication facility.
Everyone on this forum knows we dyno our products on our own dyno. This is much more expensive for us as our dyno isn't the regular dyno that most people use. Our dyno has full eddy-current load control and we also cross reference boost on the dyno graph. We are also proud of the fact that our "dynojet" has the only 4 channel module that allows us to cross reference boost across the country. There will be more later in the year, but we are definitely the first. We don't just get a final number, we know all the data in between which is more important than WOT for those meticulous enough to appreciate that type of performance.
When we first made the SMIC, there was already another version on the market that very few if any were sold. The gains were minimal and not very impressive. So why would we make our own SMIC based on another companies low hp gains and successfully develope a similar product that makes almost 17whp gain in conjunction with our piping kit? We have a lot of faith in our ability and experience to know when a product can be improved on and go by our test results only.
Almost every intake we've tested makes about 4-6whp, all of them, including ours. However, spool time is a different issue and that's where the difference is. Also, say goodbye to the "turkey".... (rockon)
TurboHoses
Hey, did I mention this really light weight exhaust system that JIC-magic has supplied some of the parts to us and we have testing........ (eek2)
Stay tuned.......
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