Porsche RWB kit installation - would you do it?

[KrisZ]

This guy blew up on the internet recently it seems. I’ve seen his “creations” before and they look very cool. But this is the first time I paid attention to his work.
Not sure I’m sold. Cutting, drilling into the body, caulking the gaps? Not sure if he treats or paints the cuts afterwards.
Pretty shoddy work from what little I could see in the videos.

Here is one. I mean I can clearly see the finger wiped caulking lines in the shots and they don’t look good.

Thoughts?

 

[TomYoung]

RWB = Garbage.

 

[ctechbob]

Typical 'show car'. be it cars, car stereos, hot rods etc. Lots of sins hidden behind panels that can't be seen.

 

[wings&wheels]

Porsche galvanizes the cars. He cuts and trims, then sinks screws into metal w/o any treatment, etc.

I'm sure (hope??) his shop creations are more professionally finished. Not my taste, but different strokes and all....

That said, poor 964 Exposed screw heads???

 

[VolkswagenFox21]

I love the way RWB cars look. People like to complain, but it's not like Porsche didn't do the same thing to their race cars back in the day. He's just recreating that look.

 

[KrisZ]

I love the way RWB cars look. People like to complain, but it's not like Porsche didn't do the same thing to their race cars back in the day. He's just recreating that look.

Race car is one thing, road car totally something else. The look can be replicated without butchering and compromising the body. Especially at the high level this guy supposedly operates at.

 

[JoelB]

Think what you will. But the fact is there is a long line of people waiting to pay him handsomely for his services. It's considered an honor to have him come work on your car.

 

[Dadillac]

I watched the whole video. 2 things stand out to me. First, dude has some crazy hair. But I wish I had it lol. Second is he has some amazing skills. It seems that all of the wide body kits in this world are made to be screwed on with exposed screw heads. Not my kind of look but the majority likes it. I never heard of him or his company before but I can see why he is apparently a top tuner/builder.

Don

 

[Pew]

I hate it, never liked RWB. They were just a cater to the stance crowd, but on expensive cars.

 

[raaizin]

I find when people modifiy cars. They usually turn out pretty bad. They don’t have the budget to do R&D and there are too many compromises made only exception might be the higher and ones like singer, but I have no first-hand experience with them.

 

[KrisZ]

I watched the whole video. 2 things stand out to me. First, dude has some crazy hair. But I wish I had it lol. Second is he has some amazing skills. It seems that all of the wide body kits in this world are made to be screwed on with exposed screw heads. Not my kind of look but the majority likes it. I never heard of him or his company before but I can see why he is apparently a top tuner/builder.

Don

So you didn’t notice the finger wiped caulking or him cutting the suspension springs? You just saw “amazing skill”?
Props have to go to the guy for his ability to make people pay premium for his work. Good for him, for sure.

Here is him gluing in a tow hook

 

[ctechbob]

Think what you will. But the fact is there is a long line of people waiting to pay him handsomely for his services. It's considered an honor to have him come work on your car.

Still doesn't mean he's not a hack.

Back in the late 90's/Early 2000's there was a car stereo installer that was sought out by all the big companies to build their demo cars. Company I worked for actually hired him on full time and his only job was to build their show truck, and they paid him big bucks at the time to do it.

A few years later, we decided to tear it down and rebuild it with current products.

The amount of outright disgusting work on that truck boggles the mind. And I don't just mean craftsmanship issues. I mean downright safety issues.

One example. The truck was touted as being able to be driven on the highway.

Nope.

Hacker superinstaller re-routed the serpentine belt to completely bypass the water pump. You could barely get it on and off the trailer and not overheat it.

Rigged up amplifiers that simply turned on and lit up but didn't really play anything (Everything ended up being powered by a home audio amp in the dash).

Lots of wires not connected to anything.

Batteries wired into the system with NO fusing to brass blocks screwed in with sheetrock screws.

Linear actuators run through microswitches instead of relays, so we had to replace switches every single show because if you weren't careful, they would melt...dude didn't know how to use a relay.

People worshiped the ground this dude walked on and he was nothing more than a drunken hack that knew how to make pretty panels cover everything up.

 

[97prizm]

RWB has been around for a while. I saw this video when it came out, and I was quite dissatisfied with how alot of his installs were put together. I've always liked Gemballa with their professional oem bonkers installs. 9ff was really cool, but didn't know that they had gone bankrupt. Then there's Top Secret which took me a while as a kid to figure out that was the company name.

 

[Pew]

Think what you will. But the fact is there is a long line of people waiting to pay him handsomely for his services. It's considered an honor to have him come work on your car.

AMS was like that once too. Turned out their products were kinda garbage and overpriced.

 

[DuckRyder]

Like nearly all "Builds" on this kind of stuff - I liked it better before he messed with it.

You can chalk me up on the "not a fan" side.

If your gonna make something like an old race car and go "old school" which seems to the the point here... do it the way they did it on the race car, which i'm pretty sure was not a couple tape lines and some urethane for welting..

 

[andrew_j]

It’s a disposable consumer good in the end and this person tweaks them for a customer likely not in long term.