maybe merlin has just had some bad experiences ........
You ever see the intercooler that zzp made that was aluminum on one half and phelonic on the other?
I knew that as soon as they put that out, that it would fail. Materials expand and contract at diffent rates due to temperature changes. Stuffed between a heat generator and a contained explosion, with cool liquid flowing through it would experience quite a range of heat variants.
My friend bought one and it was literally the two plates bolted together with nothing in between them. It cracked and caused a leak.
When he wrote to ZZP they stated that it was because he diddnt torque the bolts correctly. The only thing that could have marginally saved the damm thing is if he just siliconed the thing together and diddnt put bolts in it.
This was not a one off problem. The reason you dont see those anymore is because ALL of the sold products broke!
Did ZZP do anything? No, and this is only one of many examples i have.
So much for spending thousands of dolllars on R&D. They throw **** together and sell it as fast as they can, not worring about if it works.
And dont start me on intense. All of their transmisison items can be bought cheaper through our vendor
www.tripledgeperformance.com and all of their other parts they sell are off the shelf items. When was the last thing that they sold that they manufature themselves? because all of their stuff fails.
They aqqired the a/a intercooler from FIT in asutraila and were working on making it work for the GTP. they managed to get ahold of one and tried to put it on the car, but it diddnt clear a few components. Instead of developing the inlet and outlet to work for our cars, they called it quit. It was not difficult at all to redirect the i/o ports in a new mold but that was too much trouble for them. all they wanted to do was recycle someone elses crap idea.
Intense is a great middle man, and thats it.