Hello guys, I see we have a few detectives among you.
It is no big secret that our sports cat is made for us by Janspeed as they make many parts exclusively for many companies. Our cat is our own design, we have paid the development/testing costs and you will not be able to buy it anywhere else. The price you have been given for a sports cat through a Janspeed dealer is actually for a decat pipe and not a sports cat. Janspeed actaully called us yesterday to see if it would fit a Cup. Until we approached Janspeed they had never made a sports cat for the 172 even though they have it listed in their catalogue. This entry is being withdrawn from next years catalogue. They have only made one decat for a customer and that was soon taken off the car as the customer found it too loud.
We actually sell our decat below Janspeeds RRP which is well over £300+vat. If you would like to check on any of these details please call Tom Ross at Janspeed, he is the technical director, and he will confirm what I have said. It is not our policy to take other companies parts and add a huge mark up and sell them as our own. Any part that has KTR in front of it means it is either solely developed by us, exclusively made for us or we have helped with the development. It would be very easy for us to just sit back and wait for other companies to bring out new parts so we can sell them, but we do feel there are always areas where parts can be improved or introduced to make the cars better (I realise our definition of better may be different to yours in some cases!!). We believe in being an innovator and not an imitator.
David.
