[s-cars] Styling Option Status-4 (Plus some news)

[James Murray (LMC)]

S-Heads,

Here are the latest stats and some news to read below:

1)	RS2 Style Front Bumper: 17 People
2)	Sport Mesh Grill and/or a matching lower Grill Mesh for bumper
intake: 16 People
3)	SGI Body Kit (Front Air dam, Side skirts, and rear Valence): 13
People
4)	Carbon Fiber or Fiberglass Hood: 10 People
5)	Custom Rear Wing: 9 People
6)	HID Xenon  Kit: 9 People
7)	Front Lip Spoilers: 8 People
8)	Re-styled Front Air Dam: 6 People
9)	Straight Eyebrows: 3 People
10)	Kamei Eyebrows: 1 Person

News:

Well if you been following this activity you'll notice two things:
1)	Interest in RS2 Style Front Bumper interest has surged to 1st place.
2)	Interest in Carbon Fiber or Fiberglass hoods has doubled since the
last time (interesting!).

Quest for RS2/RS4 style front bumper:

Contact has been made with Zender, they are currently searching for their
molds (out of production) and said they might consider a special run for us
but only at a minimum quantity of 100 or more. Negotiations ongoing ! (they
use PU-RIM plastics and have previously made side skirts, rear bumpers and a
wing for the Audi C4 body style). Examples
http://www.typc4.de/Tuneraudis.html <http://www.typc4.de/Tuneraudis.html>

I tried contacting Dave Jones at Autosport Werks, but couldn't get past the
front desk. Rumors are they are working on an RS2/RS4 hybrid front, but they
said they are no where near a finished product (6 months or more) and do not
yet want to comment on construction, fitment, or material used. I'm still
trying to find out more...

Next to contact will be to contact SGI and see what they have to say.
Perhaps it might be worthwhile to contact Blau too?

Quest for CF or Fiber Hoods:

Trevor F. and Brian B. have made some progress contacting some
manufacturers. Trevor found an experienced manufacturer that specializes in
this stuff and is willing to make the hoods for about 1400-1800 for tooling
and approx. 400 per hood. At quantity of 5 approx that's about 700 each
copy, and the price drops to about 600 for a quantity of 10, but this is
just an over the phone quote. Trevor will try and get more info and exact
pricing. Brian has requested to add a CF trunk be added to the list ! (so
that's been added to the web page).

Quest for the rest:

LLTEK contacted me today, they said they are definitely interested in
providing some solutions for us (4 or 5 of them perhaps). I'll be speaking
to them later this week to get more details on what they are considering
working on. To sweeten the pot, they said they might have a lead on some
Euro's to go with the HID's.

That's about it for updates, see the web site for latest comments: and
pictures:

http://www3.sympatico.ca/wadleigh/Audi_C4_Styling.htm

Cheers, /James.