Old Nov 16, 2011 | 11:58 AM
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Default Re: Turbo Project about to begin but decision needed

Originally Posted by frankeyser
I just had a thought, since we are looking at having this designed for stock N/A cars. Is the neck up from the charge pipe going to fit a 74mm throttle body upgrade? I sold my OEM throttle body a while back.
You will be fine, but we have to let him know when they build your kit. My engine has the stock 74mm TB. I spoke to Corky briefly this morning. and sent him a long email we will discuss hopefully latter today. He really likes our cars and willing to take on some risk but his crew has had a couple of meetings and they get mad at Corky when he doesn't use deposit in a sentence. To keep his guys happy we will need deposits. He seemed overjoyed that we have three ready to send $200 since yesterday. we really need to get to ten if possible as that will allow some who need to save up more time. Timing should look something like this: John's car/protype will take up to eight weeks to complete. at the rate of one kit per week, the tenth in line is looking at another 2.5 months. Not sure how many weeks it will take to line up buyers willing to send a $200 deposit but once we have ten. Then we would send deposits and John would drive to San Antonio. Once John's car arrives buyers at the end of the list are looking at 4.5 months to be ready to purchase.

In my email today I have asked Corky to write something up on his letterhead describing the kit, cost, performance goals and conditions regarding the deposit and anticipated kit build times and delivery times. I told him about the recent success of getting deposits for the headers and Wavetrac but also mentioned when it comes to boosting the n/a Crossfire, people may be more skeptical. However, with Corky Bell (BEGi) involved along with Kleemann helping to get Corky up to speed on the unique aspects of the MB engine management we may never have an opportunity like this again! this is about as good as it gets!

We need to try to spread the word, I sure hope there are more than three of us that want in on this.
 
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