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Oct 24, 2003 | 10:00 AM

cizco962

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Looking for any available body kits and installers near LBC for my 96 2.2L (4-door) any help is greatly appreciated.....

Oct 24, 2003 | 08:29 PM

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hooray for LBC ill keep an eye out for you go to wet works after sema

Oct 25, 2003 | 11:26 AM

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Aerosim will be coming out with a carbon fiber wide body GC8 4-door kit within the next year.

The 2-door kit is currently in development.

Oct 26, 2003 | 01:56 AM

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Aerosim will be coming out with a carbon fiber wide body GC8 4-door kit within the next year. The 2-door kit is currently in development.

Now why is the 2 door kit going to take longer then the 4 door? Logic would seem to point to a 2dr kit being developed first and possibly be easier... being that the 22b is coupe... and that is what the kit was originally shooting for right?

-DE

Just seems odd, to me at least

Oct 27, 2003 | 08:22 PM

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Originally posted by DoomE.Q.
Now why is the 2 door kit going to take longer then the 4 door? Logic would seem to point to a 2dr kit being developed first and possibly be easier... being that the 22b is coupe... and that is what the kit was originally shooting for right?

-DE

Just seems odd, to me at least

I didn't say the 4-door kit will take longer. In fact, it will actually take much less time.

The car currently being worked on is a 2-door GC8, whose fenders were done by hand. We have access to full-body scanning machines now, so once the coupe kit is finished, the 4-door kit can be scanned, and molds can be made within a few days. With access to the scanning machines, the 4-door kit will take anywhere from 3-4 months for the first kit to come out.

Why has the GC8 2-door kit taken so long? Steve said this in a NASIOC thread, in reply to somebody asking why it's taken so long:

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You've missed the whole story, so here's the cliff note version ...

Friend made fenders
Fenders sucked
I couldn't sell you guys crap
I had 2 more flakes try to do it
I rented a shop
Made the masters myself
Built an oven by myself
Finally got some help from Kym and my friend Bob
Now molds are finally being made

Basically life has completely sucked for me for the past 3 years. Mercury poisoning has totally screwed me up but I've been getting treated for it and I'm slowly getting better. Now that Kym's been taking care of the rest of the business and expanding our inventory or aftermarket parts, I have more time to deal with the fenders, etc. and life is finally getting more normal.

Oct 28, 2003 | 02:13 AM

DoomE.Q.

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I didn't say the 4-door kit will take longer. In fact, it will actually take much less time.

I know, I was saying that I would think the 2 door kit would come out first, THEN the 4 door kit would be developed from that then come out... just seemed odd that it would be coming 4 door then 2 door.....

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The car currently being worked on is a 2-door GC8, whose fenders were done by hand. We have access to full-body scanning machines now, so once the coupe kit is finished, the 4-door kit can be scanned, and molds can be made within a few days. With access to the scanning machines, the 4-door kit will take anywhere from 3-4 months for the first kit to come out.

See now this confuses me even more.... I thought what you ment was the 4 door kit would come out before the 2 door kit... It seems to me now that you're saying that the 4 door kit won't take as long to develop as the 2 door kit did. Is that correct? If so then is the 2 door kit going to come out first or the 4 door kit? the above now seems to imply that the 2 door will be made then the 4 door will be designed and made from that which is what I figured all along and was puzzled that the opposite would be true...

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Why has the GC8 2-door kit taken so long? Steve said this in a NASIOC thread, in reply to somebody asking why it's taken so long:

I remember the original threads before there was a nasioc/I-Club split

...I'm aware of some of the trials/tribulations of getting the kit made... Glad to see it's coming round the last few bends

It's been a long wait but then agian quality is always worth it....

Just thought it was odd that the 2 door kit would come out after the 4 door kit. (but like I said above I think what you ment was that the 4 door kit won't take as long to develop after the 2 door is finished...right?)

-DE

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Oct 28, 2003 | 11:30 AM

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Woah. Let's erase everything we've said and mistakenly thought.

We're working on the 2-door kit. It's taken 2+ years.. but when it's done, we can start on the 4-door kit. This will take much less time, with access to a scanning machine.

Then... the GD kits, and then GG. And then... I don't know. We'll figure it out down the line.

Hope this clears things up a bit?

Oct 28, 2003 | 11:33 AM

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I remember the original threads before there was a nasioc/I-Club split

...I'm aware of some of the trials/tribulations of getting the kit made... Glad to see it's coming round the last few bends

It's been a long wait but then agian quality is always worth it....
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Definitely. It's pretty fortunate that Steve works for Swift Engineering. We have the same hands making molds and laying carbon for F1 and Indy cars making our wide body kit.

Thanks for the nice words and everything.