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Originally Posted by PencilGeek

Be careful because comments like that can be pretty inflamatory.

There are some very legitimate uses for aftermarket tuning -- namely to take performance to the edge of what BMW would never do. It doesn't mean anybody is outengineering BMW, but instead means they are taking advantage of the performance that BMW left on the table. After all, there is plenty of performance left on the table by BMW (and others) because they need to meet certain liability, stability, and longevity requirements. Aftermarket tuners are not encumbered by such limitations and therefore create a market by taking advantage of more aggressive performance tuning than BMW ever would.

Then you get things like the stroker motors and supercharger kits. It would be very hard to argue that both don't contain considerable amount of engineering efforts.

Amen brother.