ANY product u hardly ever pay for the materials (though they usually get included). your paying for a benefit. what is that benefit worth to u. if they charged 500 dollars, it still wouldn't be a ripoff. if u feel the benefit is greatly worth it, then 500 is fair.
why do u think custom work and one-off's cost so much more than mass marketed stuff.
if you guys can guarantee them you'll take 1000 shields, i can guarantee they'll lower the price. until then i'll be ordering one when i'm ready for my intake.
also i thought about it. everyone was complaining that the heat shield defeats the purpose of an open intake. i disagree. i think most dont think about it in the right terms. what the heat shield is doing is replicating the stock air box BUT on a bigger scale. it allows u to run a bigger filter in a bigger air box, if you will. the fender inlet is pushing air into a larger stock box with a larger filter(if u understand what that means). i bet if they made the heat shield air tight like the stock box, you get even better results. but they cant cuz everyone is running different size filters, intake pipes, mafs. so they made it as good as possible with enough compromise to allow maximize the numbers of possible users.
