Thanks for the kind comments guys. An area we haven't been strong in to date is marketing and explanation of the kits. Paul (Ty) understands this but for others viewing:
As alluded to by Dave and Paul himself, the RF kits are COMPLETE - every nut, bolt, washer, clip, rivet is included in 140 - something kits (depending on options) the wiring harness comes complete, terminated, ready to plug in.
Jonathan's analogy is that if you were driving down the road in your fully compliant, completed and registered car, pulled into the garage and stripped it into 140 kits, thats what you can buy off us, I am not sure many others offer this.
If you choose to buy the lot from us, (some do some don't, some purchase all at once, others in varying stages of completeness) there is nothing to source yourself besides paint and tyres and we can help you with these anyway !
As such, fabrication skills required are limited to being able to use a set of spanners, rivet and bond agent guns and a drill. Bodywork is probably the same no matter which kit you choose - we can supply it ready to paint or like others we have preferred body fitting guys and painters but these are often outsourced jobs anyway. Most recent kits include the body fit option where panels and gaps are aligned, requiring only normal body prep prior to finishing.
There are not many build logs on recent RF's, I am not sure the current clients are web/blog active or necessarily GT40s.com guys but we would be pleased if they were, as we are proud of our product and would like you guys to know about it from a clients veiwpoint - I asked one to contribute here recently and although this may not necessarily be a typical response, his was "what do you want me to write, we followed the instructions and stuck it all together...." Others make changes from the std RF kit for individuality but just haven't written on here about it. Like others we have a significant network of like minded clients and a phone/email/mailout support service that makes it easy.
But really, compliance is the easy part - being a Vicroads compliance signatory myself, we assist interstate clients through the process and have nearly 100 vehicles complied Australia wide to date, my engineering counterpart in Queensland is a personal friend from our previous working life and, like our other engineers in other states, has all the test reports and data he needs to tick the boxs.
I respect Pete's comments re RF1 of course and I'm glad he made it out with a car BUT we have been here for 5 years (already !) in the current RF2 guise, and plan on sticking around.
And yes I really must learn to post more regularly instead of an essay rarely....further I have not posted this to be part of a debate, rather to clarify some previous posts and perhaps misconceptions about the RF product.
Regards Paul
