>From: David Schwarze <schwarze@io.nosc.mil> > > And BTW, why are those suckers so outrageously expensive in the first > > place? It's just a bunch of pipes and sheet metal, isn't it? Not some high > > precision performance part? > > Yup. Just a question of supply and demand. Has anyone ever taken one apart? I thought that the reason they were so high was because of the way they are made. From memory, I think that it is casted with the heat sinks part of the pipes, welded and covered up with sheet metal. I don't know if the manufacturing process is what drives up the price considering it is just pipes and sheet metal. Jonathan ----------------------------------------- Jonathan Dove jdove@gsvms2.cc.gasou.edu 82 Rabbit PU, 83 GTI, 85 Vanagon, 87 Golf -----------------------------------------
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