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Worn – appreciate your words of encouragement. It was the dissatisfaction with currently available designs and the inability to make timely contact with other suppliers that made us decide to move forward. The higher costs comes directly from the complexity of the molds to accommodate the side and back (bottom?) trim pieces. It because easier to do it as a large mold that incorporated the trim than as 5 individual pieces. As we are getting most of our interest from 944 owners we went with this approach.
The wing is designed such that it can fit either on a 944 or 968 hatch.
For those who already have the stock 968 wing/trim/hatch, you can, as you point out, sell the existing trim, wing, and hatch pieces to other 944 owners who want a stock 968 wing and significantly defray your costs on the new piece. From the costs in my local area – that should just about cover the cost of the new wing - a nice bonus ;-)
If the market that we anticipate comes through on the wings – we are looking at doing some other pieces as well. We’re playing with the design for an adjustable one. A hood would be easy to do and it’s been discussed, but pricing would likely be closer to $2000 and we’d need to do a run of 10 or so to have it be profitable. However, we can probably build in the intercooler ducting at that price as well as cut outs for the “aero” style quick release latches. Canards/Dive Planes are also being looked into if we can get some good aero numbers from the engineers.
From an installation instruction standpoint – we’ll be shooting step by step instructions as well as posting video showing the key steps. Also – we’ll be answering customer’s questions via email and phone should they run into issues once they’ve received their wings. We want to show that these products fit as advertised so people will be confident when we come out with our next line of products.
If you have further suggestions – please post or drop me a PM. I’m sure there are owner’s out there who have needs that we haven’t thought of that may be great for the larger community if we can put something together.
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