Descendent or Dezod Turbo Kit?
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GQQSE, you are of course correct.
As a retired engineer I know that ALL engineering is compromise, and that there is no "one correct way" to design something.
At each step in the design one makes choices based on which feature/function is most important to the engineer, and what the overall goals are.
As a customer one needs to look first at what one needs from the product, then look at the design decisions, the compromises, that were made in each product and decide which most meets your needs.
As the producer of a product, one needs to not only make people aware of the product, but needs to provide enough solid information to let the potential customers make their decisions.
I also pretty much stay out of these discussions of forced induction, because FI isn't my "thing." About the only time I even make a post in one of these threads is when the thread itself has run off the rails and needs to be nudged back. (Of course even just doing that I get attacked in PMs and posts, but that is just part of the job of trying to run a site.)
As you said, GQQSE, everyone has different criteria they use to make their choices, and once the decision is made, folks get very defensive about their choices (everyone likes to believe they made the right choice).
For some reason this is always most evident in the tC FI area of ScionLife.com. Lots of testosterone flowing here.
One of the problems is when defending one's choice or product one steps across into badmouthing the other guy. That never makes one's own decisions or products look better. One should always focus on what is good about your own, not what is bad about the other guy.
OK, back to the ____ing match!
Tom
As a retired engineer I know that ALL engineering is compromise, and that there is no "one correct way" to design something.
At each step in the design one makes choices based on which feature/function is most important to the engineer, and what the overall goals are.
As a customer one needs to look first at what one needs from the product, then look at the design decisions, the compromises, that were made in each product and decide which most meets your needs.
As the producer of a product, one needs to not only make people aware of the product, but needs to provide enough solid information to let the potential customers make their decisions.
I also pretty much stay out of these discussions of forced induction, because FI isn't my "thing." About the only time I even make a post in one of these threads is when the thread itself has run off the rails and needs to be nudged back. (Of course even just doing that I get attacked in PMs and posts, but that is just part of the job of trying to run a site.)
As you said, GQQSE, everyone has different criteria they use to make their choices, and once the decision is made, folks get very defensive about their choices (everyone likes to believe they made the right choice).
For some reason this is always most evident in the tC FI area of ScionLife.com. Lots of testosterone flowing here.
One of the problems is when defending one's choice or product one steps across into badmouthing the other guy. That never makes one's own decisions or products look better. One should always focus on what is good about your own, not what is bad about the other guy.
OK, back to the ____ing match!
Tom
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