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Message: <blockquote data-quote="f8." data-source="post: 111371" data-attributes="member: 923">calvin,don't worry. in practice, i personally do think that kahar's concern about water damaging the engine with the gruppe m intake you happen to sell is a very remote likelihood event. whther they use the standard blw filter, or k&n or blitz etc. so people can feel free to buy it even if the price has gone up from 6k+ to 7k+, even if chester was indeed selling it for 7k+ back then.i have no incentive whatsoever to prove or disprove, afterall, i don't sell anything.but if i may add to the overall scheme of things, coming from a pure performance point of view, rm7k+ is indeed a lot of money to spend on eye candy which only gets licked when the hood is popped.i know, there is some gain in the gruppe m from preventing hot air into the engine, but you could get it done equally well with plastic or fibreglass without the extra cost of kevlar or carbon fibre. sure, its light, but when it represents less than 1% of the total weight of a streetcar like this, the effect is submerged beneath the noise floor.so really, for an aesthetic item like this, there isn't much to clear technically is there?if it makes people feel good that they've spent a lot of money in doing their car up for psychological gains? what's so wrong?</blockquote>