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quote:Originally posted by Kirby
You have been pretty straight with us for a long while, and you should be commended for it. Our (collective) problem is that of support. If DC wants to hoard the ability to work with the 2.4 engine, then do it. Dragging this thing out for years does not make anybody feel all warm and fuzzy.
People will buy your parts one at a time just as well as a kit. The kits need strong marketing.....you don't have that, so why keep developing things you can't support? (More frustration)
Racers are by nature direct and impulsive (very few quilting bees for these guys&gals), so don't be suprised when they take for granted the first (released by DC employees) date for availability is the deadline. Period!!
When you say it .....do it! (Don't whine about getting a hard time from the peanut gallery.)
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The support thing is a tough one. MOPAR Performance relies on us production engineers to come up with the aftermarket parts along with doing our regular jobs. You might say we are moonlighting. So MOPAR has to make money to justify a budget to hire more engineers to make more parts, and basically there was nobody at the wheel until TurboG took over. These parts have to sell to generate income, to pay for more engineers and so on. You might say nobody at the level to approve budgets much believes in us. So the kits come out slowly.
As for the peanut gallery, sorry for gettin wound up. Give us the benefit of the doubt and don't assume we're just a corporate bureaucracy - because if we were, nothin cool would ever come out. We're more of a mom & pop shop than you think (currently two total engineers working for MOPAR).