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The point is price.

You can get a whole TS engine with all the Motronic gear (at least in Europe anyways, where this modification is more popular and available) for a lot less then modifing a 2L to similar specs, or even a stock 2L engine. This does not normally apply to us in the USA since the TS engine is not available here.

The sucess of this engine in Europe has been heard here, and those that have done the transplant (stock) report increased performance over their old Nord engine.

It is understood that when you modify a 2L to produce more HP it starts to lose some low end driveability, something you don't lose from a stock TS.

Also, when you think of the costs to produce say a 160+HP Nord engine, and put that cost instead into a TS, you get much more, since the Head is such a superior design in efficiency.

Just 2 cents, I have a TS engine in storage with the intent to transplant, but I have not done any work yet, so this make my above statements open to debate. However I feel these facts stand on their own.