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Ah, the classic “and who are you? What do you do?”

I’d copy pasta the definition of false confidence but I think there has been enough schooling for today.

Carl chose the path of deception and lies for this product. Never forget.
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I spent 20 years as an Army Green Beret working on transnational level security issues while educating and teaching myself how to build, race, and maintain race cars.

I sought out the right mentors and connections and my work is on and has been on nascars, champion rally cars, pikes peak finishers, formula drift cars, NASA national champion cars, scca national champion cars, Australian national champion cars, etc

i use solidworks, used Siemens NX9, I'm self-learning Ansys.

but all that doesn't matter if I can't win the love of a few angry boys and girls on an Internet forum. My heart is broken and I'm so invalidated ?
 
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Just some clarification, no one reserves the right, all of these are technically their own style kits based of obviously in this case the Tom’s replica. I offer a version of this kit, i can’t speak for the quality/ material/ testing that Carl does for his kits, that would be something he’d do on his own after receiving from the manufacturer, but I will say not all carbon is created the same, there are worse and better manufacturers. I’ve personally tried a few and have been working with a particular one for a little while now with good success.
I appreciate you.

I'd rather not talk about my bank account after material testing and filling my trash cans with stuff that doesn't meet my standard.
 
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This is a dumpster fire - how is this even allowed seriously? STOLEN content being marketed?? come on how is this dude not banned yet

Send out one of this sets to use track guys and we make a verdict on how trash they are - 5k wholy shit lmao
 
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This is a dumpster fire - how is this even allowed seriously? STOLEN content being marketed?? come on how is this dude not banned yet

Send out one of this sets to use track guys and we make a verdict on how trash they are - 5k wholy shit lmao
hpde doesn't make you a track guy.

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This is a dumpster fire - how is this even allowed seriously? STOLEN content being marketed?? come on how is this dude not banned yet

Send out one of this sets to use track guys and we make a verdict on how trash they are - 5k wholy shit lmao
and the verus parts on your car show me you have zero idea what you're talking about ?
 

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bet you my QC is better.

I could flood my web store with pages and pages of random crap to make sales like some of these places *cough* a90shop *cough* but I don't and won't.

I don't (and ethically won't) take 500%-3000% profit mark ups.

you know where AMS is made?
How about APR?
Recaro?
Tiffany & Co?
Apple?
How about all the charge pipes, downpipes and exhausts? (I can tell you which ones are made here in the USA and even those use components sourced from a catalogue in China)

I scratch design and build things that I desire and I put a lot of time into searching for, QA sampling, and sourcing specific things that I simply don't have the multiple multi-million dollar machines to do them in house with yet. ?

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I completely understand how supply chains work. The problem isn't where things are made, the problem is the quality. I'm just stating that the same manufacturer can put out different quality products depending on how much their client is willing to spend.

Not every product needs to have OEM fitment or made from the best materials. Prices for high quality kits are ridiculous. That's why I don't have a problem with knock-offs (i.e. Rexpeed) or B-Tier originals (Seibon). They are good enough if you're willing to do some work for perfect fitment.

I have done a crazy amount of due diligence in the aftermarket space to understand that most of the aftermarket items out there are just companies slapping their names on a product they probably didn't even design inhouse.

I also understand that most store fronts don't even have products on hand. They are just a middle of a middle man.

There are 3 or 4 other companies that offer this style so that's not a big deal really. It's the reality of the business. What is concerning are the pics used. At the very least either use the manufacturer's stock photos or your own photos. Do not use another storefront's original pictures. That's not a good look.
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