not sure if the diffuser does anything but I do know they look awesome in Carbon. If you ever get one or see one it'll just **** you off to look at another plastic one.

 

Thanks guys. We're working with our graphic design guy and hope to have something shortly.

 

any updates on this? I'd love to see a picture of what we would be buying into... Makes people much more likely to spend their money!

I understand its costly to actually manufacture one, but I'm afraid we need a little more motivation than good faith unfortunately

 

I talked to G3 about this, they will most likely make it, but because the lack of interest they had to start some other projects first. Not that there isn't motivation, trust me I want to get this made. However we need to have interest in it before spending money on a mold.

 

I would take one provided you still have that C6 for C5 rear bumper.

 

Yep still have it.

 

Looks like this will become a reality. I have a guy sending a deposit for 3 of them. These first ones will be carbon. Not sure if G3 has plans for fiberglass.

 

I would be a buyer at the $499 mark. I getting real tired of the corvette tax. Empire(performance corvettes) has a black CF diffuser at $499 with another 20% off of that price. I would not buy at the price Andrew6 was talking about at $699. I will not pay that much. Sorry.

 

I have purchased their door sills and I will say they are top quality - the carbon fiber weave is spectacular and looks very 3D - I get lots of comments on them...

 

Sorry but that is a different market, those are a copy of the OEM diffuser. This will be somewhat of a copy of a $13-1500 piece. No way we can price it that low. However it will be a lot lower than what's available on the custom side.

Thanks for posting the pix!! Looks great!!

 

CF patterns differ and the depth of yours is impressive. Will you produce a splitter, etc. so a car can look consistent front to rear?

 

^^Thanks for posting that question, it was going to be mine as well. I'm concerned, wanting to purchase more CF exterior parts, I would not want mismatched patterns and shades of CF. I would like to purchase from one distributor for consistency.

Is this possible?

 

That is the plan. I mean it will take a while, but I would love to have them produce skirts, front lips etc.

 

I am thinking of getting a new rear diffuser for my Z. Interested in what you have, but pics are "X"ed out? please send pics when available.

Also I have access to Pro/Engineer a 3D CAD solid/surface program with 15+ years experience. If you jhave a 3D scan (IGES, STEP...etc) I can manipulate....

 

I know this is an old thread but for those that don't know. Rota means broken in Spanish............

 

I don't normally post my opinions or facts on things on this forum and usually let things be...nor do I mean to trash someone else's thread.

But truth be told, I have been waiting on G3 to supply the carbon fiber for my upper door panels (to another vendor on this forum) for 5 months now, and still nothing. They have been close to being done now for months. So for them to post a 10-15 day turn around time is kind of funny to me.

I have seen their work before and it is very nice, but 5 months and counting...it's crazy. Maybe the completion of the door panels is not as much of a priority to them as this will be. Anyways, not meaning to **** anyone off...but I am very disappointed in how long this process has taken.

Just know what you are getting into.

 

Agreed! They have been taking a lot longer to produce stuff than they'd like. Trust me, I have ridden them hard about this. They've had a lot of growing pains as a new company and stuff they can't control. Hopefully they'll get it turned around fast, since they do make high end stuff.

 

You're 100% right: this has taken way, WAY too long (as has our diffuser development, which is finally almost ready to get pushed out the door and onto actual cars), but it's absolutely important that you know it's not about being a greater or lesser priority at all. I promise you we don't look at ANY of our projects and say "we'll get to it later since it's less money than this other project right here." Without getting into a long and sad story no one really wants to hear, Pete hit the nail right on the head: we've experienced three of the absolutely most frustrating and potentially damaging things a business can experience SIMULTANEOUSLY.

Now, before I get into the details of the how's and why's, I'd like to stand up and say "It's my shop, so it's my fault and my responsibility." The people we hire, whether internally employed or as outsourced service providers, are ultimately operating under my watch. So again, I accept full responsibility for the failures we've encountered, and you, as clients, have endured.

I can't thank you (guys) enough for the patience and support.

That having been said, we hit the trifecta for trouble for a brief period: solid growth, separation of a poorly performing partner, and external supplier breakdowns.

As some of you have pointed out (and I appreciate): we've been working hard at building a reputation as a provider of a high quality part. So much so that we've often found ourselves saying, "You'll be mad because we're slow long before you're mad that you got a piece of crap from us." What started out as an anecdotal "ha ha" turned into our day to day struggles. (Who knew it would become prophetic?)

Essentially, we've been in pretty good shape with regard to client interest. Where the train comes off the track is in having had to push my (now former) partner out of the business and immediately setting to clean up the messes caused by the near fatal marriage. For all intents and purposes, I was running the business side of the house and relying upon him to manage manufacturing. What I didn't realize until it was almost too late was just how little work was actually being done, all while being fed the "we can do that: no problem" line again and again.

What happened was we got to a point that we were so buried in work and so far behind it LITERALLY almost put is out of business. (consumption of resources can't ever outpace the replacement of those resources, which is exactly what was going on.) I'm not a guy who leaves anyone hanging, so I did two things to flip the ship back over:

1. I fired my partner and restaffed with competent and hard working employees.
2. I dug into my own pockets, not the business funds (Since there were none at that point), and restructured the company based upon improved skill, hard work, and greater efficiency.

In doing so, I was able to clear out almost every bit of slow business I'd been saddled with as a result of under-performance and over-promising.

To wit, your project is essentially the last of the last of the last of the parts that got sucked into the vortex of swirling destruction. (Ok, I'm overstating here. Yours is one of the last of the parts that have been slow to ship. Once yours, the aforementioned diffusers, a spoiler project that's 99% finished, and a front splitter for our ZL-1 Camaro crowd starts to ship, we're right as rain.)

The one thing I want to make sure everyone is aware of is the fact that when you call, I always answer. We're not in danger of going out of business, we're not closing the doors, and we're actively working on everything we have on the books.

I'm not running from anyone. It's been slow, for sure, but everyone gets their parts: period.

So, now that I've put that out there, I need to address one final failing we've experienced: outsourced resources.

For the lions share of our existence, we were clear coating in house. It offered us an opportunity to completely control the quality, as well as offer a low cost solution for clear coat. With my (former) partner leaving the business, he took with him the one thing I don't have an eye for: clear coating ability. Sure, I'm competent when it comes to some of the smaller pieces, but beyond a certain point I'm just making things worse. So, I began outsourcing.

...And for the last four or five months we've been through at LEAST as many clear coaters. Every one has done the same thing: promised quality and delivered an invoice.

Florida, it seems, lives by the motto of "sunny weather, shady people" so we've struggled MIGHTILY to get the clear coat needs/issues resolved.

Which takes us to where we are now. Your parts have been done for more than a month. Three clear coaters and 5 attempts to get them right, I think I've FINALLY found a guy that will work out for us over the long haul. (Until I can justify and afford bringing a guy in-house full time.)

Here are the results (And this is BEFORE the final coat of clear, sanding, and then polishing.)





They'll be in a box and on their way back today.



One last thing: Have you guys all noticed how there aren't a lot of carbon fiber companies that have been around for more than XXX number of months or years?

The reason is how incredibly time consuming the process is if you aren't disciplined, often combined with pricing that's below the actual cost to manufacture. (Bred by a desire to move product and get your name out there.) I now completely understand how so many good companies have gone under.

So, I realize we've been slow and we're CERTAINLY not the cheapest game in town, but I can promise you this: we're almost through the re-org. I know it's probably not fair of me to ask, but if you guys can hang in there just a few minutes longer, we've just about got the kinks worked out of this thing.

And once we do, we're going to seriously rock some socks off with what we've got in the works.

Things like this:






And this:





And more importantly:

 

If you search the net really hard this part from APR can be found for $1050 which includes shipping. It's their all carbon fiber diffuser

 

Plenty of good carbon fiber manufactures still out there making good carbon parts. One that couldn't survived is the one has no ability to design and run production part. Especially, "Knock off" they tends to come and go when the market slows down, but they will try to take your money before they move on to other market. Do your research before hand over your part deposit to them. ( I learned this from a hard way )