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Aurel & Dave;

With all due respect, nice try. Neither explanation holds water and here is why. I am a big Porsche fan but I also am involved in building engines with my brother. We do Ford and Chevy. I do not know of anyone who uses Mahle in a muscle car. Not saying it doesn't happen but it ain't one of the choices I look for. In fact I didn't know they were manufacturing for American iron. So the volume thing ain't workin'. When you subtract cylinder cost such as LN engineering cylinders from a $4000 set you still are paying $200 per piston. The V8 sets range from $54.37 to $87.50 per piston. I am not trying to stir up trouble but the same crap happens with GM for example. If it says Chevy on the box it is one price, and Cadillac is that price times two for the same part. Going back to my cost accounting days, this blows the standard pricing formulas out of the water because you can't calculate the greed factor in the equation. It sucks more than a $4000 Call Gir.... Sorry I went political again.