Project Update for Jan 11, 2011: This is a quick one, and its all about bling (preserving the factory finish and headlight glass). Costas came by last week and installed a full XPEL clear film paint protection kit, since the Mustang was still showroom fresh and unscathed by cone damage or rock chips. He installed the rocker panel kit, the "bikini" hood and front fender kits, the side mirror film, the under door handle film, and the door edge guard film kits.
Me and AJ did some Meguiers Quick Detail clean-up and let Costas take over
Costas is a master of patience, having never installed a film kit to this chassis it all went on and off several times before he locked it down
Once the clear film was on and dried its hard to even see where it starts/stops. Invisible protection.
After finishing the body protection film Costas installed the headlight cover kits.
That are tinted.
...Yellow....
I know its not going to please everyone's tastes... but it will keep the rock chips from the glass housings, and it is distinctive. We had a generally very positive response to the yellow XPEL headlight covers on the EVO X, so I figured... what the hell? And in ALMS the yellow XPEL light covers signified a different class of race cars, which was helpful in night races. So it has... a racing tie-in, sort of.
Amy and I did the headlight install on the EVO, dry, which still took us ~90 minutes. Costas made it look so easy this time
It looks a bit unusual in this indoor/fluorescent lighting, but in person it is more subdued and kinda... neat. I dunno.
Costas said "the red and yellow matches your shirt", so somehow that made it ok?
Just didn't want to distract you guys when you saw pics from this coming weekend's track event, with the yellow headlights... Just get the "Ahh! what have you done!" complaints out now.
Stuart @ AST-USA put the magic valving on our 4100 AST kit today and its being installed tomorrow. The wheels/tires are scheduled to arrive tomorrow also. Next thread update will be much more technical, with 90% less bling.
Thanks,