You may not have heard of other brands like Quaife, Pfitzner, BorgWarner, PAR, DBA, Alcon and so on, but they make good stuff. You don't need to be famous to make decent parts and doesn't mean if you're famous, you do.

PAR is Precision Automated Robotics, an Aussie company that makes MTs in Melaka.

OS Giken makes really hard clutches, a workmate of mine runs an R30 with an RB25DE with an OS Giken twin plater. Those buggers are on-off.

ATS has a lot of nice kit but Full Race and their manifolds....... ......

Either way, in regards to the LCP, really, what is the point unless you want to dampen something? If you can keep the dampening and balancing at the same level while losing weight, fine, good, but the reality is most of the time, you don't.

Behind the crankshaft you have the rotational mass that is the flywheel, the clutch and the whole damned car. In front, you have the aircon, alternator and so on. A reduction of a 2kg tops in just isn't going to bring out the beast in your damned car.

For the amount of money spent on the LCP, I can buy myself KFC and some minyak, go for a hard drive and set my tune correctly and still get more power. Malaysians are just in love with anything shinny when it comes to modding.

Why does Garrett market a bolt on kit for the Evo X which exceeds the power handling capacity of the clutch at stock and markets it as a stock replacement?

Why do all the major for their first iterations of the X CAI all have issues with long term ECU compensation?

Why does Turbosmart market a replacement BOV that when vents to atmosphere ruins the AFR calculations of the ECU and can wreck the engine?

Why does Seibon market a carbon fiber hood that increases the likelihood of pedestrian death in the event of crash?

It is up to the end user to figure out a risk versus reward thing. Just that in the case of an LCP which concentrates only on weight, the reward is outweighed by the risk, because the reward is so little for the average driver. Simple as that and that has always been my personal argument.

Just because they're all famous brands, doesn't mean they don't play with risk. A lot of SAU members do not recommend the installation of the HKS lightened cam pulleys on the RB25/26 due to run out, so they just don't buy it. But but but it is from HKS, sure good one!

Even the likes of Cosworth can make crap sometimes for the sake of money 

Eric Tsu as in the MotorIQ / ImportTuner dude?

1. Now do you seriously believe that companies don't take risk for money? . There are first version big brake kits out there from big names that screw so badly with the ABS systems the cars are undrivable. During my younger days, I used to drive a P38 Rangy, man that shit BECM and security system was bugged to hell, using your logic, would Range Rover build a shit car and done more testing?

2. I don't live in Malaysia. And I base it on trust that a man who spends a crapload of his money on cars would try very hard to make sure what he got was genuine. Maybe it was the mechanic's fault, maybe it was fake, but when a lot of people say the same thing. Well, err on the side of caution.

3. Mitsubishi in the UK makes the FQ400, 400 horsies. From the factory. . Aslo available in the FQ-300 and FQ-360 flavours. Also from the factory. I'm keen to hear your argument in regards to this

4. I'm not sure how you can equate a torque wrench to a feeler gauge, they measure different things.