Kirk's Build Thread
04-24-2014, 08:16 PM
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Doubtful. It's bubbling on one side and coming off on the other side. For whatever reason it doesn't seem to want to stay on the chrome.
At this point I'm not really worried about it. I like the look of the blacked out chrome trim but I was starting to get use to the regular chrome trim. Plus I wasn't wanting to go for the fully blacked out look either.
I'll be interested to see yours Rochester to see if it's something I may want to try.
At this point I'm not really worried about it. I like the look of the blacked out chrome trim but I was starting to get use to the regular chrome trim. Plus I wasn't wanting to go for the fully blacked out look either.
I'll be interested to see yours Rochester to see if it's something I may want to try.
04-24-2014, 08:20 PM
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04-28-2014, 07:51 PM
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Just another update. I'm not sure if I will be keeping my vinyl window trim because I am not happy with how it has "settled". I may take it back to the place I had it done and ask them what my options are because the edges are pretty shotty, and I asked them to do gloss black, and as Rochester pointed out previously, there is a little bit of a texture. I was told that it would just need some time to settle in and the texture would go away, but it hasn't.
Ditch it, get your money back. Do it yourself. Or at the very least, do the belt-line trim. It's straight and relatively simple.
Congrats. And now the long, agonizingly long, FI wait begins.
Some things are worth the wait.
04-28-2014, 09:16 PM
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Awesome news, congrats! You going RHFC, CBE or both?
Get some pricing on the install and let me know what you're finding. My guys are pretty reasonable if you feel like taking a drive. Heck, by then I may even have a headliner ready.
Get some pricing on the install and let me know what you're finding. My guys are pretty reasonable if you feel like taking a drive. Heck, by then I may even have a headliner ready.
04-28-2014, 10:03 PM
#38
It sure is!
After seeing it in person, it's a mess. There are air bubbles all over, edges that are poorly cut, and the material as the look of duct tape. It's awful up close, and if you can't look at something up close, then it needs to go.
Ditch it, get your money back. Do it yourself. Or at the very least, do the belt-line trim. It's straight and relatively simple.
It really is a disaster and continues to get worse. It will be gone soon enough.
I'm okay with the wait financially. Lance and I worked out a payment plan, so to speak, so that I'm not taking a huge hit all at once. My goal is to have it installed by the first or second week of July, in time for my birthday, and for a couple of friends to come visit so I can show off the exhaust. 
For right now just 12" CBE. I couldn't justify doing both financially right now. Depending on what Connor ends up doing with the RHFC he has on his G now I may try to buy them off of him when the time comes and if he can tell any difference in the new ones verses the old ones.
I'd like to have both installed at the same time but I know that once I get the CBE in I won't want to wait around for the RHFC, unless I find a good deal I can't pass up.
After seeing it in person, it's a mess. There are air bubbles all over, edges that are poorly cut, and the material as the look of duct tape. It's awful up close, and if you can't look at something up close, then it needs to go.
Ditch it, get your money back. Do it yourself. Or at the very least, do the belt-line trim. It's straight and relatively simple.
I'd like to have both installed at the same time but I know that once I get the CBE in I won't want to wait around for the RHFC, unless I find a good deal I can't pass up.
06-21-2014, 04:30 AM
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So I am trying to figure out my next mod. I have a budget in mind, but it may be a little flexible. I've considered everything from OEM DRLs, FI RHFC, coil-overs, Michelin PSS, to selling my spot for the FI CBE and putting the money towards a GTHaus Meisterschaft CBE because well... just watch...
What do you all think?
What do you all think?
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06-21-2014, 10:45 AM
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Totally agree, on both points.
Everyone has their own limits when it comes to evaluating cost-2-value. As much as the GT-Haus exhaust is worthy and desirable, I can't justify the expense. Heck, I can only barely justify the expense of the ARK cat-back that I want to buy next year.
Everyone has their own limits when it comes to evaluating cost-2-value. As much as the GT-Haus exhaust is worthy and desirable, I can't justify the expense. Heck, I can only barely justify the expense of the ARK cat-back that I want to buy next year.
06-21-2014, 10:02 PM
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Shocked and impressed. Little jealous, too.