This is too funny, read their legal information. Also below is the contact address and e-mail address of the folks that sell the product. Feel free to give them a call or an e-mail.

"The Direct Power System a.k.a. DPS as well as the K&G Racing Corporation and trademarks (here forth referred to as "we"), are all reserved under K&G Racing Corp. and under copyright in both US and Japanese law. International Patent #2002-109831 protects rights of K&G Racing Corp. and the Direct Power System (DPS) to the USA and the country of Japan.
Any/all duplicates and/or attempted/established replicas or "knock off" products of the Direct Power System, or use of the name, K&G Racing Corp or DPS, is strictly prohibited, and will be enforced by legal, patent, copyright and attorney assisted force. We will file lawsuits to anyone(s) breaking this policy.

All information, pictures, text and all subject to this category present on/around/surrounding directpowersystem.com are owned by we.. All third party reference opinions, views etc, do not necessarily reflect those of K&G Racing Corp, Direct Power Systems USA, and DirectPowerSystem.com We also do not have affiliation with any third party companies listed, unless otherwise stated, and will not be held liable for damages. Our text is of opinion only, and do not reflect those of we.

Any rights not expressly granted herein are reserved."




sales@directpowersystem.com

COMPANIES AND BUSINESSES, PLEASE CONTACT:


K&G Racing Corp. JAPAN
1-13-29 Jike. Suzuka.
Mie 510-0254
JAPAN
phone: 0593-88-8897
fax: 444-444-5555
midwest_eastcoast@directpowersystem

K&G Racing Corp.
USA WEST COAST
2535 #4B West Winton Ave
Hayward, CA 94545
phone: (510) 796-4415 ext 3.
fax: (510) 217-9569
westcoast@directpowersystem.com

K&G Racing Corp.
USA MID-WEST / EAST COAST
790 Frontage Suite 106
Northbrook, IL 60062
phone: (847)366-6884
fax: (831)299-7726
japan@directpowersystem.com

 

Just think of the horsepower gains that could have been seen with a 30 Amp Fuse!!

Great job Jesse..........you have saved a ton of people from getting ripped off by this company. Thanks!!

 

I think this goes to show how important good grounding really is on a car. I am definately going to be getting a good grounding kit now

 

I sure hope that people reading this thread don't get the idea that the lesson learned here is that a grounding kit makes a difference. That's NOT the lesson here.

But as long as we're on the subject, there are more people who believe in alien visitation than there are people who believe that grounding kits work.

--Steve (MSEE)

 

That is definately not the lesson here, but that is how K&G managed to pull it off, at least for the short time while it lasted, and the reason it is still successfully selling in Japan... which brings me to my next point - we need to expose this to the public in Japan.

 

I tried e-mailing all three companies and all of the e-mails were rejected and failed to deliver, hmmmmmmmmmmmm

I wonder how much $ they have made off of this scam?

 

No money has been made on this in the United States since every customer will receive a full refund including shipping charges. However, in Japan, they are making money to this day, for well over a year now.

 

What really gets me is that Kuwano (the company that makes these rip off parts) sells an even more expensive version which costs $450 on their Japanese site!

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They even say in the Q&A section of their website:

Although the R&D on these units was expensive due to the difficulty of selecting just the right length of cables/cable covering and finding the perfect way to wind the cables, we strive to keep the prices low on these units by building the units as simply as possible. We focuse on the components within rather than what the units look like.

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What a bunch of BS!! The compents inside can't cost more than $1! Talk about profit!

 

Wonder if we can get their address, e-mail, ect? They will possibly say,

No speaka Englis

 

In reference to your comment, hmm, you could always see if a college japanese class or a college prop who teachs japanese would translate it for you if they try that line of BS.

Secondly, Jessie, in regards to your cursade part on the webpage. A good way to expose this info I think would be to get it in a magazine. Both Import Tuner and Sport Compact Car have a "Webside" section where they post good websites they can't afford to miss. Maybe one of us should sne them your website. I'd say it qualifies as, in their words, one we can't afford to miss." If you don't have the time, I can send it in and see if they publish your site.

 

The reason K&G was able to pull it off is NOT because the unit acts as an additional ground. The reason is because many people are willing to suspend disbelief because they want to believe (against all logic) that something like this might in fact unleash magic from their car's engine.

The high end audio industry is FULL of stuff like this.

By exposing a fraud like this, je has saved some people from making a bad purchase. Nice work. OTOH, don't be suprised to find that there's another group of people who really don't want to know that it's a bunch of hooey and would prefer to hold to tried and true reasoning such as "yeah, I know there's absolutely no logical explanation for it but my car sure felt smoother after the install". Call it "grounding kit syndrome" perhaps.

--Steve

 

Wow. I haven't popped over here for a few days. Jesse, you are a god! I'm so glad I thought to bring this product to the attention to forum members here and that you guys got to the bottom of it so quickly. I doubt if anyone on FreahAlloy has even heard of the thing, but I'll be sure to spread the word there.

 

Thank you MustGoFastR for bringing the product to our attention. If you've got any other questionable products out there, I'll gladly test them out too. I'm keeping the little K&G sticker on my computer monitor as a kill, similar to how the pilots in WWII had japanese flags on their airplanes for everyone they shot down.

Swapped,

if you would send that info to the magazine that would be cool. I wouldn't know where to go to do something like that anyways. I'm not really into the Import Tuner scene.

Better do it quick though because the hourly bandwidth limit on that site is getting eaten up quickly. The page is at 5,345 hits as of when I started writing this post.

 

Nice kill indeed. I'll keep my eyes peeled for other suspects!

 

If they try that, I'd be more than happy to translate it (Fluent Japanese).

 

On the DPS official site: http://www.directpowersystem.com, now it has the following message: "Direct Power Systems, USA sales closed until further notice. More information coming soon...
- Staff"

Unfortunately, Jesse's Tripod site is also down! Or is it suspended? http://dps_is_a_scam.tripod.com/

 

I ran out of bandwidth.

 

Well, I just called K&G's number in Japan--011-81-593-88-8897--and it's real. I just faxed over a complaint letter them. Maybe we can get these guys to stop selling it in Japan if we make enough noise--fax them if you have the time!

I'll contact Japanese tuner magazines later today as well with the information from this site. I doubt it's going to do much, however, because Japanese magazines publish articles based on advertisement revenue they receive from companies. I'm sure they wouldn't want to write an article that bashes one of their advertisers. But I'll give it a shot anyway.

 

spf4000, you da man.

I wonder if these guys speak English. It wouldn't do much good to fax something in English if they can't read it.

 

I recommend sending simple faxes in English, like:

"DPS is a scam!" "Stop selling DPS!" "Die, DPS, Die!"

Someone over there should know enough English to understand that. Plus, if they don't understand, I'm sure they'll send them to their overseas sales division, where they should have someone who speaks English.