[Shotimes] RE: supercharging

[Gerald Harmon]

>It comes back to numbers, and complexity.  Fox Mustangs are simple cars -
>they're junk, but they're simple.  And they can be made to go really fast,
>and the parts needed to do that fit hundreds of thousands of cars and
>because they sell in those quantities they're cheap.  Of course, the more
>specialized you get, the higher the price goes.
>
>SHOs are, front-drive aside, much better cars than the Mustang.  They're
>also (a) more complex, which makes aftermarket parts development more
>expensive (b) rarer, meaning any aftermarket vendor has to recoup his
>investment over a smaller number of units, and since (c) they're also down
>in the throwaway price level used, you won't see much aftermarket
>development for them anymore except by fanatics.

I understand all this John and know that you have a lot more knowledge of
chasis and road course racing than I could ever know (road racing not my
thing).  I was responding to the part of his post that said he could build a
supercharged SHO cheaper than a supercharged Mustang (or something to that
effect).  I know that that's BS.

Gerald