Product Development: Need Test Car

Thanks to all for the response! This forum looks to be a great resource, I look forward to working with you all in the near future. We are very excited to begin working on this car. If it works out with SubtleStyle, we should have some cool new products available very soon.

Short Shifter: There is a good likelihood that we will be able to come up with something. The only concern would be keeping it affordable (NOT made in China)

Calipers/Rotors: If you're thinking some kind of big-brake kit, or a Wilwood setup, we could definitely do it if the interest is there.

Dash Kit: We have discussed possibly getting into some fiberglass work like vehicle specific speaker/amp solutions, at this point it's pretty far down the list, but that's not to say we won't do it. If we can get a car to work with we may be able to come up with something. I would recommend trying a good local stereo shop first.

Cat-Back Exhaust: This is absolutely on the to-do list, we want to offer a cat back as well as high-flow catalyst pipes and cat-less test or "track" pipes.

Larger Throttle Body/ Intake Manifold: We will be designing and producing a Cold Air Intake as soon as possible. I am not familiar enough with the factory manifold design to determine the advantages of increasing throttle body size alone, but it is certainly something I'll look into. And very much something we are capable of offering in the future.

Again, many thanks for the replies, and if anyone has any other ideas they'd like to throw out there, feel free. We are very open to anything, even if it's billet training wheels for your nieces huffy.

tampajoey said:

these guys are a very small cog in the very big world......
and they are too damn far from me......


(and nameless- you gotta roll and recover from the punch...and that was one-- we all hate deadlinks)

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Joey- Thank you for the positive encouragement. We are in fact a very small company, merely made up of three die hard enthusiasts with a passion to create, and a hunger for performance. The advantage of being such a small operation is that we are able to focus on the product quality and more importantly our customer relations. This is something that will always be of the utmost importance even as we grow. High quality parts, made in America, by REAL people that really care.

Location is tough as far as test vehicle development goes, but once in production we offer very reasonable shipping, we have parts on cars ranging from right here locally all the way to New Zealand.

I don't really know which punches we have to recover from, unless you mean my missing link in the first post woops! You are right though, there's always ups and downs, especially when offering new products to an up and coming market. I trust that these cars will only become more popular as they're just too cool not to!

bradtacdc said:

Yes, I was reffering to a Big Brake kit with 4 piston calipers

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Very possible. I'll have to get a good look at the stock setup and look into some different solutions.

corytate said:

maybe stronger and better flow characteristics if some good engineering goes into it

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Interesting concept indeed, gets the gears turning in the old cranium. As I said before it is something we are very much equipped to produce and I'll put it on my list.