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Old Sep 13, 2011 | 01:50 PM
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Originally Posted by 02blackbeauty19
KB kits for corvettes suck! Seriously!
Jeff at TPE was the leader in KB stuff for the C5 platform and he no longer talks about it or advertises it. He may have even went to TT's for his shop/personal car.
do you know why he thinks that?
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Old Sep 13, 2011 | 02:41 PM
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Originally Posted by IKnowtheFuture
do you know why he thinks that?
From what I remember, it was lack of support from KB and lack of big results that users were wanting.
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Old Sep 13, 2011 | 03:23 PM
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YSI is overkill
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Old Sep 13, 2011 | 07:19 PM
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Yeah but the YSI sounds demonic. I think I am going to go with the A&A YSI trim.
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Old Sep 13, 2011 | 08:23 PM
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buy the time you get a maggie to make 800 without issues, then you'll wish you would have gone with something else
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