Again, I am just a hardcore devils advocate. I am a manager among 4 other department managers, an owner, a co owner, and a license holder. Devils advocate is what I do best but in the end I am on you side. Im just making sure we cover all our corners here.
It is like I said with the supercharger. WE as owners know we can use parts from the civic si... some parts.
But a company wont be willing to sell SI parts AS ILX parts. They will have to do their own research and development to make sure it is safe to sell civic parts as ilx parts.
Many companies will just throw their hands in the air and say the R&D isnt worth the amount of ILX buyers.
If you figure they got the si kits out for $10,000 R&D. Then they are able to sell 35 kits at $1000 each, they made $25,000 profit.
Now, if they do the same $10,000 into R&D but only sell 10 big break set ups, they come out even regardless of the amount of SI owners that made purchases.
Obviously those cost numbers I pulled out of the air but I hope they served a purpose. Companies have to waste money to push out new products. They weight how many NEW products will sell against the costs to put the product out. If they are already selling SI big break kits to SI owners, PLUS a few ILX owners just go ahead and buy SI kits, what is the need to produce ILX specific ones?
