Hi everyone, I just joined the forum and am planning to become a supporting vendor. I can not mention my business name at this point or provide any links or numbers but I have been authorized to talk about the plans we have for the car.
I purchased a 2006 Cool Liquid Silver Metallic Friday night and hauled it down to our shop last night. We have already removed the cat back exhaust, air intake system, tranny cover, driveshaft tunnel cover, front lower airdam and the air deflector going up to the condenser. We also removed the front grills.
Here are our plans:
full length headers with choice of primary tube size for normally aspirated or supercharged/nitrous applications.
Hi-flow 304 stainless core converter
304 stainless exhaust system (depending on info I am waiting for)
Drive shaft safety loop for racing (safety item)
304 stainless steel cold air kit (possibly another option in material)
Lightweight aluminum and/or carbon fiber driveshaft
possibly a front mount turbo kit with intercooler
rear mount STS style turbo kit
we also do chrome plating on plastic parts so we are doing the front grill inserts this week.
We can manufacture almost everything in-house and we are a supplier for the wholesale side of things with many companies marketing products under their own name. We also do retailing of our own products, as well as carry an array of other companies products such as torque converters, clutches, rear differentials, rear gears, filters, mufflers, etc.
We are looking forward to bringing high quality performance parts to this market and I am looking forward to joining in with the rest of the owners to learn about our cars.
Sounds cool. If I might offer a suggestion ... everybody here loves to see teardown pics, so you'd score some major brownie points with a lot of forum members if you would take pics of things as parts come off. New pics are always a big hit and any chance to see what's underneath are always welcome.
Also, I'd love to see how chromed grills will look on the car. I've been considering it for a while. Obviously, you're not set up as a seller yet, but if you could post a few pics of the things you've played with so far, that would be awesome. Correct me if I'm wrong here mods, but just showing his own customizations without posting contact and sales information shouldn't be a problem, right?
The only way I would be able to post pictures is to post links pointing to my website. It would only be a link to the picture, but it wouldn't be hard for someone to read the address and figure out who we are. I would have no problem doing this but I will wait until one of the moderators authorizes it first.
I haven't taken any "in-progress" pictures as the parts were being removed but I can sure post pics of the removed parts with a description of what it took to accomplish, how long and what tools I used. Wait until you see how much room is under the bottom covers and behind the grill inserts. This car is an after market dream come true!
Welcome DD. It is great to have aftermarket vendors looking at ways each of us can personalize our new cars. Once you are on our list, a link to your site would be great so we can see what you have done so far. Keep us posted.
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Until Supporting Vendor relations have been finalized you can use an image hosting place like putfile.com. Once we get everything worked out you can switch them all to images coming from your site since I'm guessing your image site is also your company site.
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2008 Black/Black GXP, purchased 7/23 right off the train.
Mod#1 blacked-out headlights
Mod#2 GMPP Intake -I like to hear my turbo.
Mod#3 Special Sauce
Mod#4 Solo Street Race
'97 Burb.
"07 Charger R/T, Mama's car
Race #1 Charger 0 /Sol 1
Love it can't wait to see chrome grills in a cool, flat black as well.
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Deposit (1100) - 9/29/05, 1101/1102 - 2 Feb 06, 2500 - 7 Feb 06, 3000 - 8 Feb 06, 3100 - 13 Feb 06, 3300 - 13 Feb 06, 3400 - 14 Feb 06, 3800 - 24 Feb 06 (112544), 4000 - 24 Feb 06, 4150 - 24 Feb 06
dealer expected deliver 6 March, arrived 28 Feb, picked up that night w 3.2 miles on the clock :)
NOT WAITING ANY MORE!
Thanks for the positive feedback guys. I am going to wait until I am signed on as a supporting vendor to post pictures. I just don't have the time to screw around up-loading pictures to another site, etc, etc...
I have taken lots of pictures. Here's my free learning curve info for you guys:
when removing the stock exhaust manifold, your tendency will be to lean on the vent to your left or the top of the fuse box, don't do either as there is a very good chance of cracking the vent for sure, and possibly the fuse box.
Over-all the stock exhaust manifold is a piece of cake to remove. It has the best bolt access I have ever seen. It came out with the cat converter in place, then from below, remove one bolt and the converter falls out. There is SOOO much room on the passenger side of the engine a small person could probably manage to crawl through from the top to the bottom. It took me 30 minutes to remove the heat shield (3 nuts), the exhaust manifold (10 nuts) and the cat converter (3 nuts, 1 bolt). Using basic hand tools.
What does this mean for the "do-it-yourselfer"? It means there is absolutely no reason to take the car to a shop for a header install if you are willing to get the car on stands and crawl under. or, if taken to a shop, from the moment the hood is opened to when it is closed, it should take no more than 1 1/2 hours to remove the factory equipment and install a set of headers with hi-flow converter. (It will take more time to install a custom headpipe from converter to stock exhaust).
Now, up front behind the grill inserts there was enough room for my partner to fit his welding helmet, probably 3 side by side if we tried.
Some of the stock pieces we are going to coat are the exhaust heat shield (satin black ceramic on the outside), the fuse box cover in chrome and the engine cover in chrome. This will give the engine compartment a nice touch of customizing while retaining the factory parts. The stock air intake system could also be done in chrome for those owners who don't want or like the louder sound a performance intake will give you.
Back to the exhaust manifold and aluminum head. The EGR appears to be integrated into the manifold flange (internal) as compared to older cars where an EGR tube is used to go from the intake manifold to the exhaust manifold. Nice and easy but definitely more expensive when it comes to the header flange. There are several openings and ports in the stock exhaust gasket not used on this engine in this car. Therefore, there appears to be lots of extra meat in the heads to open the exhaust ports. The ports are a rectangular shape with radiused ends. In our opinion they are on the small side for a 2.4 Liter engine. The exhaust manifold and gasket ports are actually a little larger than the ports in the head. We estimate the stock ports to be 1 1/2" (round tube), but no problem using a 1 5/8" primary tube. Unless major, I mean MAJOR, porting was done to the head there is no practical reason a 1 3/4" primary tube would, or should, ever be used. In a nutshell, a supercharged 2.4 with 1 5/8" primary tubes would be a nice combination. Port the heads and there should be even more power to be had from the same combo.
OK, that's my lesson for today. In closing I'll tell you all this; once I had the heatshield/manifold/cat converter off in such a VERY short time, and without busting a single knuckle, I was ready to call my wife for a night of fun, if you catch my drift. To be somewhat graphic, yeah, I got sexual aroused.
Thanks for the positive feedback guys. I am going to wait until I am signed on as a supporting vendor to post pictures. I just don't have the time to screw around up-loading pictures to another site, etc, etc...
That's cool. I figured you probably wouldn't want to mess with offloading to another site. Look forward to seeing what you come up with. Thanks for all the good info. Always nice to see vendors willing to take an actual interest in providing helpful information above and beyond merely a sales pitch.
To be somewhat graphic, yeah, I got sexual aroused. 