Hello everyone, It has been a long time. My 2016 Sport is still running strong, and GT Mustangs are still its favorite food.
I just shipped a Carbon Fiber V2 Ram Air Intake, and WOW shipping has gone through the roof, $62.77 to ship ground!!! There is still one CF V2 in stock but, it has a small blemish about the size of a grain of rice. If interested I will sell it at the old price. If I were to do another batch it would be the Black ABS as the CF is still difficult to obtain and the cost has become prohibative. With the increase in shipping, material and molding costs, I would be forced to rase prices to cover expenses. For me to invest in a run like I use to and sit on them until a order came in would now require a substantial investment. That is something I cannot afford to do, I have been sitting on this last batch from April 2022 and just now have sold out except for the one blemished CF. I wish I could do another run but the economy, new Income Tax law on anything over $600 income a year taxed at 25%. It was $20,000 a year. That 20K limit helped millions of people hustle a side job and put food on the table, now with new laws and 80,000 new IRS agents.. forget about it ... The V2 would have to become a business and the price with shipping would be ridiculous. The business would be doomed to fail before it even started. This was my hobby and a labor of love that has been taken form me. It not only affects me, but my Edge brothers and sisters. I am very happy to have been able to contribute something however small to this group. Perhaps if 4 or more of you got together and were willing to invest then wait a couple months another run could be done. This is the old ABS price. I have always kept it to myself and to inquires only.
Old price - ABS V2 Ram Air Intake- $125 + **$45 Shipping + $5 PayPal fee = Total of $175 shipped
A new price would have to include the 25% tax I would have to pay, increase the shipping to $63, Increase the PayPal fee to $9 and increase the cost of the V2 to cover new inflation cost of materials and molding. Labor has always been free as it is my hobby. I am guessing about the molding and material cost. Let us just say for example it has gone up 30 bucks in the last two years.
New price would be around $155 Black ABS-V2 Ram Air Intake + $63 Shipping + $9 PayPal = $227 + 25% tax $56.75 = $283.75 shipped.
That is over $108 more than they were just two years ago. I just don't think at that price that anyone would be interested. This is just the economy we are living in, brought on by the current administration and their new tax law, otherwise the V2 could still be in production.