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CORVETTE TODAY #166 - Summer Vendor Showcase 2023
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May 8, 2025
CORVETTE TODAY #166 - Summer Vendor Showcase 2023 CORVETTE TODAY offers up another outstanding Vendor Showcase episode, which highlights three companies that you should know about! Featured on this show are CarCapsule, Wheel Craft and Soul Performance Products. Your CORVETTE TODAY host, Steve Garrett, talks with the owners of all three companies. They off some very unique items for your Corvette along with some exclusive CORVETTE TODAY discounts! Be sure to check out this week's CORVETTE TODAY show and these terrific companies along with their offerings. Listen to the podcast, watch the YouTube video, join the Facebook group, sign up for email notifications and shop in the Merchandise Store at: www.CorvetteToday.com
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[Music] welcome to Corvette today the podcast
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that talks about everything Corvette with your host Steve Garrett MC and DJ at one of the largest Corvette weekends
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in the country Corvette Fun Fest president of the Corvette club of Kansas City Missouri and radio disc jockey at
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the number one radio station in Kansas City for over 40 years here's Steve Garrett
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[Music] thanks for listening and watching Corvette today the show that talks about
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everything Corvette and the only current podcast dedicated to Corvette I'm your
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host Steve Garrett I appreciate you tuning in Corva today is brought to you by wheelcraft want to dress up your
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Corvette with bright Chrome or black chrome wheels learn about their Advanced PVD chrome finishing they can refinish
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your wheels or offer a wheel exchange for most models and it comes with a five-year warranty visit wheelcraft.com
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today or call 833-639-4231 you can listen to Corvette
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Corvette enthusiasts from around the world it's time for another Corvette today vendor showcase highlighting some
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of the latest and greatest products on the market for Corvette owners Phil Pataki is with me from car capsule Phil
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welcome to Corvette today hey how you doing good to be here thanks for being here Phil first off your brand new SC1
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car capsule is licensed by General Motors and it's available for sale tell me about this brand new product Phil
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well we've been in business for over 20 years and we've noticed that Corvette's
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our number one customer and so we decided to get a license which we did through General Motors they were excited
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about it and we came out with a unique design that kind of goes with the flow and shape of a van it actually looks
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like it's moving when it's sitting there and it has all the Corvette logos on it and it's quite attractive but more
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importantly it's functional it does a lot to preserve and protect your car also it has lighting it looks like
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carbon fiber which I gravitated to right away yeah it has a carbon fiber look to
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it it's not an inflatable carbon fiber but it does have that look it has double white stitching Corvette zipper pulls
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the floor when you drive in looks like a road so you've got Highway stripes on the out and white dashes down the middle
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it comes with a lighting kit which is actually cob lighting it's a new lighting technology it's better than
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LEDs and it really is a nice feature with the remote control you can change the colors and the function and the
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speed and it comes with the intellicharge so when you put your Corvette away an old one a new one you
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plug in our intellicharge which maintains your Corvette battery to full capacity and runs my circulation fan at
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the same time if there's a power loss it switches over automatically and runs my fan off of your car battery and it
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switches back when power resumes and charges your battery back up so you always have continuous airflow
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continuous air change which means zero condensation during storage wow that's
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really cool and the beauty of this is no tools are necessary to get the SC1 up and running right no if we always tell
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folks the most work is getting it out of the box you roll it out like a sleeping
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bag and then fold it right fold it left locate the inflation valve hook up our pump turn it on in less than five
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minutes you're good to go wow it's that quick there's no put this together bolt
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that together there's nothing it's complete inflatable frame that's really nice and it's got the C8 logo on it too
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the cross Flags yeah we've got that logo in the sides and then across the horizontal beam we go from C1 through
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eight so we've got every Corvette logo on there to make every Corvette owner happy very nice now you also have car
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capsules for what different Generations a Corvette you know we cover them all but we cover all makes and models as far
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as that goes us but I mean if you're going to see one two three whatever we start out with our basic bubble then we
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have an enhanced version and we get in the showcases and then we come out with this SC1 which is our Supercar one which
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your car is your Supercar that's what goes in this SC1 very nice now obviously
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a lot of Corvette owners have daily drivers so you make car capsules for more than just Corvette what other cars
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can car capsule accommodate pretty much anything and everything I mean we just made some customs last week ago for fire
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trucks wow we cover everything from a daily driver to a special use to some
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one-off creation for somebody take Florida number one state we ship to but
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a lot of people buy our standard showcase stick it underneath the carport and while they're gone anywhere from
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three to six months they come back their daily driver is dust free mold free mildew free it's in perfect shape it's a
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Time Saver it's not so much worried about something hitting your car the biggest problem store in a car is kind
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of Temptation and we prevent it we're a continuous airflow technology we've been
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added 20 plus years very cool now you also make car capsules for more than just cars don't you we make them for
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trucks we make them for bikes we make them for boats those are stock sizes and models we offer and then like I said we
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always are making Customs if not a week goes by that we're not picking up some Custom Creations for something that's
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very cool Phil give us your phone number and the website that they can look at the full line of car capsule products
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sure our phone number is 219-945-9493 and our website is
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carcapsule.com c-a-r-c-a-p-s-u-l-e.com for Corvette
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today listeners and viewers use promo code podcast at checkout and get free shipping and save a few bucks with every
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Order Perfect Phil thank you so much for being on Corvette today this is really informative thanks for having us we got
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some really great great videos on our website underneath the video tab to go over every product we offer very cool
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we'll look for those for sure we're going to take our first break when we come back another vendor coming up on
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Corvette today we all know that Wheels make the car wheel crash PVD chrome
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you're enjoying the only current podcast on Corvettes Corvette today
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833-639-4231 as a matter of fact my guest on this special edition of Corvette today's vendor showcase is our
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signature sponsor of the show wheelcraft and here to talk about wheelcraft is President Ed Hollinshead Ed welcome to
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Corvette today ah thank you Steve first let me tell you it's a great pleasure being a sponsor of the Corvette Today
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podcast you know your audience is super knowledgeable and fun to work with and we appreciate the exposure wheelcraft
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has received being associated with such a great platform so thank you for allowing us the privilege buddy thank
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you the pleasure is all ours on this end thank you so much for being our big signature sponsor Ed wheelcraft is now
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famous for refinishing Wheels with your patented PVD chrome finish explain a little bit more about exactly what PVD
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chrome finishing is and also talk about the warranty okay fantastic well PVD
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chrome is a performance finish that is eye-catching durable and very easy to
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clean so PVD by definition stands for physical vapor deposition and it's also
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called physical Vapor transport but the key is that it's a process of applying a
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micro thin layer of chrome onto the entire surface of a part so in our world we're applying a chrome finish onto
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wheels so the best way to describe is to differentiate a little bit the traditional Chrome process layers
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material onto the surface of the wheel in a series of chemical baths in order to achieve a chrome finish the PVD
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chrome process takes place in a vacuum chamber where we take a solid material and in our case that's Chrome and we
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convert that into a gas that gas is then deposited I.E transported onto the wheel
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where it converts back to a solid resulting in a chrome finish so the chrome finish is applied to every bit of
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the wheel service except for the back plate of the wheel that mounts up to the hub but we finished the inner barrel the
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outer Barrel the rear of the spokes Etc now the process overall all creates an
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Inseparable bond between the chrome finish and the underlying alloy of the wheel so the final step of this process
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is to apply an acrylic clear coat that seals in and protects the entire finish we like to refer to that as a protective
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glove that engulfs the entire wheel so the extreme durability of our performance finish is due to that ultra
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thin thickness of our application why is this important the thinner the film finish the tighter the bond is with the
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alloy the thicker the material the more susceptible it will be to chips cracks and peeling oh so our entire finish
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measures in the range of six to nine mil in thickness so in relative terms this
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is slightly thicker than a sheet of paper that measures at six mil so we're applying a finish a layer of film on top
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of the wheel here that's bound with the alloy that's no greater than a sheet of paper that's amazing we've actually
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measured that finish of other applicators and those will measure anywhere from three to ten times as
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thick as our finish it is not unusual all for us to find Coatings that are 20 ml or greater what that is is that
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thickness leads to susceptibility for chips and peeling and lots of impact
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damage so we actually outline and demonstrate the DNA if you will of our micro thin finish on our website at
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wheelcraft.com and we have on the our process page we have photos and videos
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that show the structure of our finish compared to others and we also demonstrate using a hammer onto the
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surface of the wheel we have a hammer test that shows how durable our finish really is wow and in there too you'll
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also find a link to a virtual tour of our facility on that process page as well that's cool so there's a lot of
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Science and Technology here there's quite a bit of Science and Technology and we've really mastered it and figured
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out there's a lot of key elements without diving into the Weeds on how we get from point A to point B and make
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this such a pristine durable finish our process has tackled that and we do have
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a tremendous outcome and all of this brings us to our industry-leading five-year warranty that guarantees our
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finish against chipping peeling color separation and most importantly brake dust Burns and discoloration so brake
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dust literally washes off of the wheel with simple car wash soap and a microfiber towel our customers find our
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finish extremely easy to clean with very very little effort and our chrome finish can be ceramic coated which is really
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popular with a lot of our Corvette customers and we get that question quite a bit right that's great now you have
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four finishes that choose from Ed once you select a finish what's the process for either purchasing wheels or having
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your Corvette Wheels done Steve our primary PVD chrome finishes are bright Chrome and black chrome then in addition
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we offer custom tints to complement our bright chrome finish as well as provide custom powder coating so again without
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diving too deep into the details we have what we call recipes for our finishes and basically these recipes are based on
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how long we're going to expose the wheel inside that vacuum chamber to the chromium gas field that we've created
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and the longer we expose the wheel to the chromium gas the brighter that wheel is going to become so we dial in our
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recipes to where we offer two different tones of black chrome and we've had a number of customers interested in
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looking at it from both directions we have a really really deep black that leans closer to a gloss black with a
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chrome tint to it and then we have a much lighter black that is like a smokier looking black they're both
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really attractive and available to be run customized for anybody very nice if
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an owner likes his wheels but they're damaged you can repair those wheels and then put the PVD chrome finish on them
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isn't that right we can one we have a prep department and a team that are skilled Craftsmen that are able to clean
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up cosmetic damage curb damage to the point where you would never know it was there in the first place we can bring a
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wheel in we strip that wheel down and then we can correct that alloy and it'll
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look brand new again before we run it through our process now you've got an additional thing that you guys just
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started that I absolutely love it's called the pit crew talk about the pit crew and how someone becomes a member of
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the pit crew well Steve as you always say on Corvette today every Corvette owner has a story whether it's someone's
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first Corvette or 50th whether it's a Custom Creation or a daily driver there's a story out there and how that
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car was acquired and why and we love sharing our customers story for others to view and enjoy with that in mind we
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developed the pit crew program to become that vehicle of ours to share pictures and stories related to our customers
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cars and we created a personal URL on our website for every one of our customers cars and on that URL we load
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up a vehicle description we can list all of the various accessories they may have added any work they've done to the car
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with ceramic coating and we also give tribute to the different vendors that our customers have worked with and this
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link lives on our website so that they can share pictures and information about their car with their family their
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friends and then certainly it's searchable as well for our benefit it's an opportunity to showcase our work and
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have pictures of finished cars that have our various finishes on the wheels I think that's a fantastic idea and it's
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so much fun it's so cool to read everybody's story like you said I always say every Corvette owner has a story and
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it's great to read the stories and see the cars and you know we've actually taken this even a step further too
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because one every one of our customers is invited to participate in the pick group and we do all of that at no cost
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but in addition for our customers that actively attend car shows we've partnered with a company called car show
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life and car show light helps us customize trading cards of our customers cars along with custom made show boards
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that can be displayed at car shows so we take it a step further and we help our customers bring out recognition of their
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car when they're attending shows and sharing with others you can find the picture on our website to wheelcraft.com
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and just simply select the pit crew link to browse through a multitude of member profiles very cool buddy also you do
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some custom finishes as well let's detail that plus what other cars besides Corvettes can get the PVD chrome
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finishing well as I mentioned previously we are able to customize our chrome finish with some resilient tint
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offerings you know we've delivered red chrome blue chrome brassy Chrome gold
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chrome and some other finishes to give that customer the opportunity to personalize the look of their car we can
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finish any make and model wheel up to 22 inches and the limiting factor for size is the size of our vacuum chamber we can
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finish up to a 22 by 13 inch wheel that we can get into this piece of equipment
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so Ed if someone wants to reach out to you let's give the website URL your telephone number and how they can
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purchase Wheels okay well first please visit us at wheelcraft.com or call our
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office at 833-639-4231 and when you visit please be sure to click on our process page to
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learn more about the finish and take a virtual tour of our facility it's really interesting and fascinating once a
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customer is selected a finish that they're interested in we offer an exchange program where we leverage our inventory of Corvette factory wheels to
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apply our finish ship to the customer for installation and then coordinate the return of their current wheels so we
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have a very coordinated tightly managed process to get from point A to point B now we manage an inventory of all C8
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models we have the five spoke the Trident the forge 28 spoke wheels and Z06 Wheels but we also have sets of C5
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C6 and C7 wheel styles for exchange as well so the easier we can make it for a
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customer to acquire our product and our finishes we try to accommodate with having an inventory to support those
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needs now in the event we don't have a set that someone wants we have a process in place to have customers Wheels
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shipped to our facility for processing and then once those Wheels arrive our process takes five to seven days and the
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wheels are shipped back to the customer for mounting and balancing we walk our customer through the entire process Steve one of the most unique features of
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our business model and our customers bring it up to us all the time is that we do not ask for a deposit or any final
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payment until they have received the finished product we have such a high confidence that our customers are going
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to love our finish that we ship the product to them and our honor System has never failed us that's fantastic and
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it's so cool to hear that you can go C5 all the way up through C8 as well yeah we don't necessarily have all styles but
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we have the majority of popular Styles that's great Ed thank you so much for taking time to be on the Corvette today
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vendor showcase and thanks again for being our signature sponsor well Steve thank you once again for allowing
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wheelcraft to sponsor Corvette Today podcast we're proud to be associated with such a great platform and thank you
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very much for your time the pleasure is all ours my friend we'll take our final break when we come back another vendor
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and now back to the only current podcast on Corvette Corvette today with your
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host Steve Garrett thanks once again for checking out Corvette today the only current podcast dedicated to Corvette
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brought to you by wheelcraft summer is here and so was car show season and you want your Corvette looking its best
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dress it up with bright Chrome or black chrome wheels visit wheelcraft.com and learn about their Advanced PVD chrome
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finishing they can refinish your wheels or do a wheel exchange and you get a five-year warranty visit wheelcraft.com
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today or call them at 833-639-4231 my next guest on Corvette
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today is one of the owners of a premier performance exhaust company he's the main point person for many of their
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customers and shops and he also leads the tech talk Production videos on their
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YouTube channel he's John gaydos from sole Performance Products John welcome to Corvette today well happy to be here
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Steve thanks for the invite nice to check cars with you absolutely everybody John first of all give us a brief
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history of Soul Performance Products how the company was started how long it's been around and what's the mission of
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sole Performance Products well realistically we got together a few of
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us I want to say it was like eight or nine years ago and we were just sitting around said there's a gap in the market
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for a exhaust company in the higher end Exotics and Porsches and general sports
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cars to make a really good quality product that performs well sounds great
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but also has the customer service and experience and the knowledge of the guys
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that you're working with to really back everything up we're track rats we love to beat the snot out of our cars we want
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decision on how to best meet your specific goals and I'm happy to say it's
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been doing very well for us we started business about seven years ago and it's been Off to the Races that's awesome now
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you make performance exhaust John for all the top car brands like Ferrari Lamborghini Porsche McLaren Audi BMW
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Mercedes AMG Bentley and Range Rover and on the American side you also work with
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Cadillac and Mustang talk about your Venture into Corvettes oh that has been
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a real passion of ours you know and this all goes back I mean all of us over here have Grassroots going back to not just
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General Motors but V8 power you know as we were kids like I have a
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1998 Z28 that my father used to have to drive me to sleep in we all go back to
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American-made cars so as we got the swing into the Exotic market and the higher end stuff we've really started to
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say you know what we need to go go back to the passion that really started this all when we were kids we need to get
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back into the V8 stuff and let's start with General Motors so the C8 platform
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was the big entryway into that that was very very successful for us we did high
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right well the C8 platform worked out great let's take a look at the Cadillac platforms so we brought in the ct5v
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cars and made some pretty slick products for those too and sitting in the garage right now is the new Z06 we are deep in
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the development on that car and boy is that car exciting they've managed to stuff essentially uh a Ferrari V8 on
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steroids into this thing and it is a freaking cool car I know and I was going to ask you about the Z06 because I heard
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that you were working on an exhaust for the c806 when do you think that'll be on the the market oh we don't rush to
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Market we take our time we do it right and we put a lot of thought and time and
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effort into it so let me be the first to tell you it'll be on the market when it's on the market when it's right and
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it's going to be the best that we can do it I would expect we are still two to four weeks before we come down to the
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final honing into onto the final production product so you know I would say we would hope to have a release
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sometime in July or August if everything goes well and we certainly hope we'll be
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watching for it I'm excited to see what you can come up with John almost everybody there at sold Performance Products is from racing too give us a
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little bit of background about your racing career oh super humble modest it all started with karting you know
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I've raced shifter carts for about I don't want to say like five or six seasons and that was a huge huge amount
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of fun and then went into doing mostly hpde with cars and then graduate from
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that into doing endurance racing so I've been doing a lot of endurance racing and that's been a whole hoot of fun I did a
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few races with AER I've been doing the lemons 24 hours stuff recently and let
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me tell you that is probably the most fun for the dollar of any wheel to wheel I've ever done it is just absolutely
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hilarious I got passed by a hot dog stand into turn one at New Jersey Motorsports that's great that's fine
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everyone has a crazy team and it's a lot of fun that's awesome let's talk more about Soul Performance Products exhaust
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and what sets them apart from other aftermarket exhaust manufacturers I want
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to say it really comes down to the quality of the parts we are very
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particular on taking the time to come up with a recipe for Success that has a
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part that is built to Outlast the life of the car we TIG weld everything we back perch everything we use the best
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304l stainless steel that we can get a hand on here in the state States if it's valve we get the best valves we can get
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if it is a hot car and by that I mean temperature we take a lot of time to
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come up with how are we going to have this car get the absolute crap beat out
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of with our exhaust on it and not have any problems so we developed a Spoke heat solution so you'll see on all of
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our C8 products that we have already released for the standard car z51 package Etc all of our exhaust systems
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come with bespoke Heat Blankets now the Z06 is going to have to have the same
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thing it is a very very hot running car so we're going to be taking our time not
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just to develop the products that we intend to release but also come up with a way to make sure the car is running
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cool and that kind of thought process goes into everything that we do in order to knock it out of the park and at a
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price point that is reasonable for doing all this stuff here in Willow Grove Pennsylvania Kenya where we have close
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to 30 guys on our team here and we do as much manufacturing in-house as is
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possible here in the states and each of your sole performance exhaust comes with a lifetime warranty doesn't it oh yes
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not just a lifetime warranty for the street but a lifetime warranty for the track we want you guys to take our stuff
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out and put it to good use so please do so if you are the original owner of our
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soul exhaust you can have it on your car for the entire time of your ownership and you are taken care of all you need
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is a quick phone call to say hey I've got this problem which we don't expect you to have to do right and we've got
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your back that's awesome John once again you're located in Willow Grove Pennsylvania which is right outside of
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Philadelphia give us the website URL and the phone number if somebody wants to reach out to sole Performance Products
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sure the website is www.sou
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2lpp as in performanceproducts.com and our phone number is
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855-486-1400 call in select sales customer service and have a chat with us
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we are always always happy to point you in the right direction that's fantastic John thank you so much for being on
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Corvette today I've got your sole Performance Products exhaust on my C8 70th Anniversary Stingray and I
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absolutely love it I am happy you're enjoying it thanks for your time Steve I really appreciate it thanks for
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