Lol; holy cow, I wish !!!
I had my old cooler I got $250 out of ( after shipping, I got raped, like $150 to Ship !! ).
Then I had the ATP garrett core intercooler that I was super excited to test because I think it was going FLOW much better than my old one, while cooling the same. But I never did get to test it. But I got like $300 out of that one... So.... With $550 in my pocket (from selling my old coolers ) and DHM doing the tax sale, it meant I could actually afford the real deal cooler I wanted all along the way, just could not afford ( around 70-75% of my good paying job pay check goes to child support ).
People may or may not know this, but... When Russ very first joined the forum he told me he was thinking about opening his own shop to build fiesta parts, and asked me if I had any suggestions for his new company to start building/selling as far as parts ( like intakes, fart cans, intercoolers etc ). I explained to him how we were totally screwed when it came to intercoolers, and that while euro cars had access to some nice real sized intercoolers, we were totally screwed due to our crash bar. And I told him how we used to just unbolt them and add 4" thick, 24" tall coolers on the srt4's and it was amazing how much better the car drove in every way ( despite the "Cory Bell" engineers of the world always saying how it would add lag ). Anyway, I was not ready for what Russ was capable of building. While I trusted him and believed all the things he had told me ( about his college schooling and training ), I totally missed the bus when he asked me if he could tune my car. I didn't think I had time to be emailing tunes back and forth, lol. He tried to help me, but I was racing to get results and I had zero wifi at the time, so I ended up missing a chance for Russ to help me greatly at a time I really needed it. My big mistake.
Anyway.... Russ puts together this epic amazing looking crash bar and intercooler kit, the entire time texting me pics of how its built and what materials he's using, and I loved it. I was so impressed with the fab work. Russ finally starts selling it and at the time, it was priced around $900-ish at a time when I was buying used stock brake pads when I could not afford new ford oem pads to keep my car driving !!! Ask Rick/raamaudio. I bought his used stock pads for $25, he'll tell you guys, I was super super super broke. I paid an attorney $17,000 cash over 20 months, while paying $1180 a month in child support, WHILE HAVING MY 4 KIDS 12 days every 2 weeks ( isn't our family court system just amazing ). I was very broke. So while I've posted a million times about how great the DHM kit is, because I've seen how it was built and designed as it was being made. I know how its made and what its made with ( processes and machines ). Its real race car stuff. I didn't make those post because of what it would get me, I made those post because of what it would get his customers. All the american companies we have, and how many of them had the balls to build something like the DHM kit? ZERO. Every single one of them have taken the easy way out, and trouted coolers that "gets the job done", but honestly simply can't do it to the level that it should be done. And they sell the under sized coolers, not because they believe the coolers should be that smaller size, but because they are not going to INVEST their capital, time, and risk into doing it the correct way. Only one company invested truely in our platform. And that was DHM. And guess what.... No one else has stepped up since Russ did.
So if your asking if I got this cooler because of the way I've been promoting it, I think you needed to hear the back story as to why I feel the way I do.
I just never thought I'd personally be able to get one due to my now $2036 a month I pay my ex-wife. That's $2036 per month IN CASH, and I pay their health care as well. So to say I'm excited about owning my DHM intercooler, is an enormous understatement. But its not because it was gifted to me, or even discounted to me.
It is true that I've been able to hang out personally with Russ a few times, which is pretty dang cool for a broke guy from Florida to do with a guy from Michigan, lol.
Can you guys imagine what a jack ass I feel like? Russ asked me to LET him tune my car for free, and I said "I don't have time", lmao. How the tables have turned, lol.
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