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TST gets a comission for every ST sold right 
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Awesome! Welcome, huge fan of all your podcast's Chris. You are often the voice of reason and bring up technical discussions/questions with guests. I know on your last Hooniverse you mentioned asking the fans for funding. I just want to throw it out there that I would happily give you some money for all the hours of entertainment.
Keep up the awesome content!
Keep up the awesome content!
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Can't really say yet as we haven't locked down agreements with everybody that I've approached.
More info coming as soon as that happens.
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Hooniverse is a maybe on that, TST is completely ad supported at this point.
Been considering baking crowdfunding into ShoutEngine for other shows like Hooniverse that are exploring the idea of a fan funded show.
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That would be pretty pointless imho. Assuming they used the same dyno and that the cars had a similar baseline, they would probably both end up close enough that mere mortals wouldn't know the difference-assuming the final cars were pro-tuned by the same person. The Mountune route would cost significantly more though, and as soon as it went beyond the MP215 it would defeat the main purpose of going through Mountune to begin with-the warranty.
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I never said anything about mp215 or warranty, I'm just curious about the differences in the different parts supplied by both companies. Yes your probably right the differences would be small. As for tuning maybe mountune has some tricks up their sleeve with all their vast knowledge working with Fords.
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How about a rally vs track build? Skid plates, flaps, winter/off road tires, maybe lifted suspension with heavy duty shocks...
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As fun as that sounds these cars are our daily drivers and we live in Los Angeles.
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I'd love to say more right now but things are very much up in the air. I promise there will be more info soon.
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Practicality? You are the Smoking Tire and everyone knows Ford gives you those cars for free! lol
Actually, you should have taken the element rallying, that would be hilarious.
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Yeah I got mine at the substantially discounted price of $25k.
I still think that an Element could be a decent rally candidate but it would require a lot of work and money I didn't want to put into it.
I'm going to put a little (big emphasis on little) into the ST but after that any money spent on cars will be for an Alcon brake kit, Recaro Sportsters and a de-stroked LS7 for the Vette.
As much as I like my Fiesta when I've got a much more capable car in the garage it seems silly to neglect it.
The one thing I will say, I'm way more apt to make a quick canyon run in the Fiesta. It doesn't draw attention (i.e. not cup car loud) and uses about 1/3 the fuel of the Vette.
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Exactly my view as well. I've got a gutted Cayman track car in the garage that I rarely take out anymore on the mountain roads because it's so damn loud and it draws too much heat from police. Fiesta is as loud as a summer breeze even when pushing 9+/10. It's such a fun car and the dampening is perfect out of the box.
I really hate you and Matt since you are the reasons I bought mine. And then when Matt made the comment of the next smile per dollar was a Z28 or z06 with regards to a stage 3 fiesta St, I had to order that as well! Love the podcasts and have been following you guys since G419 days. Cheers
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