Sometimes problems do not come out right away from using the products even for 1-2years.. Stock engines built by manufacturers incorporate a lot of tolerance into each design of the components to accommodate for manufacturing variances and to ensure maximum reliability of an engine.
What aftermarket parts do is to reduce the tolerance for the stock engine and as a result from the reduction of tolerance there is a boost in performance. Since small time manufacturers manufactures in small quantity but at a slightly higher cost on material. To negate the higher cost and still maintain a profit margin, its compensated by the lack of R&D investment in product development.. Instead the R&D invested as mentioned is for the product copying process on the best and most efficient tooling method..

In Malaysia there are no such thing as product reliability guarantee and also no insurance coverage on the failure of product that u installed.
A person who does mods to his engine will in fact not just do 1 thing only such as installing a LCP, but will also include other mods such as performance plug, cam gears, piggyback ECU etc .. So if the engine indeed do fails, most of the ppl will be blaiming the base engine itself for not being reliable instead of blaming it on the cheap and lowly engineered products that are being used. Cos in a general consumers mind what I mod into my car is definitely right. Thats why we have Jasma users.

This post has been edited by ZenGTMM: Feb 18 2012, 06:07 PM