ACG Build: C63 Weistec Stage 2
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Any time you take a car from stock to "SEMA" (or not, anymore, as punishment for not accommodating the owner's timeline) you're building a custom car. There's nothing in the definition of the word that says parts need to be made in Hephaestus' forge with an adamantium hammer. It's being made to your specifications with numerous non-standard parts.
Anyway, agree to disagree I suppose. I guess my point is that nothing in this build (from what we know) was "world's first attempt at X" and all the aftermarket stuff is standard, regularly-offered products that are allegedly readily available for purchase, so I get why the client may become a little impatient after a month, when budget isn't a concern and everything's prepaid.
Might have handled this differently, of course, but I get it.
Frankly, if my finances allowed for unlimited budget MB/AMG tuning builds, nothing against ACGSD, but I would go in this direction (as a plus, it's practically the owner's backyard anyway):
http://www.brabus-usa.com/mainpage.html
My $0.02... YMMV.
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Any time you take a car from stock to "SEMA" (or not, anymore, as punishment for not accommodating the owner's timeline) you're building a custom car. There's nothing in the definition of the word that says parts need to be made in Hephaestus' forge with an adamantium hammer. It's being made to your specifications with numerous non-standard parts.
a batch of 10 parts might offer better chances of success than a one off, but ive modded waaay to many cars on multiple platforms with "proven" aftermarket parts that were proven to be more of a headache than anything else. unless the part was made by a robot in a batch of 500 you take your chances every time on a job like this.
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I hope we hear that we are good to go. I know there is more work expected, but I hope the car is making the prescribed 600+ HP, and ACG can get back to this awesome build. The forums took this thread for a ride, and as fun as it was, I want to see this build continue, and want Jim to be a happpy camper (Kittens and Rainbows!!)
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I hope we hear that we are good to go. I know there is more work expected, but I hope the car is making the prescribed 600+ HP, and ACG can get back to this awesome build. The forums took this thread for a ride, and as fun as it was, I want to see this build continue, and want Jim to be a happpy camper (Kittens and Rainbows!!)
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I hope we hear that we are good to go. I know there is more work expected, but I hope the car is making the prescribed 600+ HP, and ACG can get back to this awesome build. The forums took this thread for a ride, and as fun as it was, I want to see this build continue, and want Jim to be a happpy camper (Kittens and Rainbows!!)
hopefully everything is going as planned.
