[quote author=Sammy Jenkins link=board=28;threadid=16397;start=msg160853#msg160853 date=1085092761]
You know what the problem with Safari is? They don't want to take the risk of selling their own poducts and worry about selling all of the ones that they made. A bunch of p*ssies are running the company over there. I'm sure if they built just 10 units and sent them to Christo, they would sell in 6-8 months tops, with ease. This situation tells me that they aren't comfortable confident within their own products that they can't and will not sell them, themselves. Pathedic.
- Chase
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Sammy, sorry, that is way wrong. The 80 series petrol turbo system is no longer in production cause the 80 series petrol vehicle is no longer in production (other than venezuela?). I have spoken several times with sales managers and parts managers at APS and trust me, they are exceptionally professional and exceptionally proud of their product line and are completely confident in selling them all throughout the planet. The turbo system production runs roughly correlate with the specific vehicle production runs and since the 80 series is not in production, the turbo systems for the 80 series are not either. This is more than just an arbitrary rule with APS, the reason they do this is that most of the turbo systems are sold to the Middle East, Far East Asia, South America, and Africa, probably roughly in that order. In these areas when the model run of say an 80 series is over, most people with the money and means to do so upgrade to the next model run. So, when APS stops production and removes all the tooling and such to make this super vehicle specific turbo system, they need a really good reason to go through the trouble and to go through the cost to goto production another time. Ergo, the 25 unit minimum.
Dont get me wrong, it frustrates me to no end that they wont make more units for North American export...I'm sure the market for these superb turbo systems is stronger in NA than it is anywhere on the planet at this point. The problem is that APS is essentially asking the NA market to 'prove' this with the minimum order and so far 'we' have not done so satisfactorily. Dont mistake all this for them having a lack of confidence or business bravado, it is just the way it is. The make a super product and they know it.
and I'm awaiting for the CPUs for the 2001 UZJ-100...
There is only one installation I know of that, and it was done in a high-end Southern California custom-garage shop --and my impression is that there was some bad business between them and Airpower Systems. Next reason I got was that it won't pass California emissions requirements, nor would AP exert any effort to fix it. But the current reason I get from them is that they need a batch of 25(?) to make a set for anybody. They used to make that mainly for their Saudi Arabian customers, but not anymore. 
