Brian said:
Am I missing something? You take out a stock cap and replace it with a stock cap, just another brand and this is an upgrade? So if I take out AC Delco sparkplugs in my car and put in NGKs, it is an upgrade. Do I now have a modded vehicle that if I do not tell my insurance company it could breach my contract. There is a difference between a repair, a replacement an upgrade and a mod and subbing brand A for brand B is a substitute for me and neither an upgrade or a mod.
I think we are losing sight of these differences and purposely smearing them so there can be false selling statements.
I'm assuming that there's a big difference in price with replacement caps that are of slightly better to noticeably better quality than the caps that were initially used as stock, and Black Gates. Black Gates, if I recall from previous experience, is quite an increase in price, and depending on who you talk to, add an additional, performance improvement, arguably slight to a quite noticeable improvement.
In regards to cars, remember when Splitfire sparkplugs came out? They had the forked tip? They were four times as expensive because of that forked, increased tip/contact point. They were worth additional horsepower, but that was lots of dough for spark plugs!
As for caps, new caps can be had for reasonable prices, and seem to be an improvement than the originals, and there's work involved, so there will be a cost for that upgrade. Add Black gates caps, I can only assume the cost will skyrocket, with slight to hearty performance increase.
I guess when it comes to Black Gates caps, it's improvement, yes, but at a premium cost.
when the time comes, I'll cap with non-Black Gates caps, save some $$$, and still experience a performance gain.
If I hit the Lotto however, then I'll consider Black Gates.
