Zele Replica?
 

I did a little searching around but couldn't find anything. Does anyone make a replica Zele body kit? At minimum I want to get the front bumper. I feel like it's a great bumper to get optimum airflow to the intercooler with. The original Zele front is $1200 alone so I'm trying to save a little. Thanks everyone.

UAM is suppost to be making one

Cool, thanks for the info. They seem to have done well with the amuse replica and I'm sure it would be the same with the Zele.

I'll probably just save and get the real one. I respect the R&D these companies go through to make us these parts so it only makes sense to support them. It's just rough having to spend $1200 on a single bumper, I guess thats why I work overtime though.

I would have already gotten the Zele rear already, but it only fits quad tip exhausts

Yeah, I was thinking it would look pretty awkward without the quad tips. I'm thinking about running two different brands. I want to do the Zele front and the Amuse rear, not sure what side skirts yet. I'm sure a lot of people are against mixing and matching like that but I think it would look pretty good overall. I mainly need something up front though cause half my intercooler is blocked with the stock bumper.

I would wait for Jamaica to make the kit you will not be disappointed which would probably be done by the end of August or September.

Yeah, I'm sure they'll do a great job with it. I'm trying to get something relatively soon though as my car is a daily driver and I want the intercooler to be in full effect. Half of it is blocked by the stock plastic. I've seen a couple people have taken all the plastic out, but the look doesn't really flow.

nice to see someone supports us engineers :tup: haha!

Always! I work for Sikorsky as a mechanic building helicopters. I'm all about engineers lol. I'm currently part of the team building the first helicopter to have fly by wire flight controls. It's an amazing machine and the engineers did a lot of great work with it. I'm upstairs everyday bothering the ME and DE we have on sight lol. Were currently on the 9th one but when we started, oh man were they constantly having head aches lol.

You work for Sikorsky? Awesome! I work for Pratt.

With all these brainiacs in here its starting to smell like burnt rubber... :gtfo2:




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I'd be down for a Zele kit. Probably going to shoot for something around X-mas though.

will the UAM rone require exhaust modifcations like the original?

I'm sure they would alter the kit to work with are exhaust.

Cool :tup: I might have a few components here and there on Pratt and Sikorsky parts. (I work for Honeywell)

hmm ill buy one.

I hate engineers so I will stir the pot lol. First off at the current moment I am a MH-60S mechanic. Bill should be familiar with that helicopter since he works for the company that makes it. First off engineers like to design **** that is a utter pain in the *** to do and then they make it a routine thing to do. Example bill on a MH-60S the number 2 cross feed breakaway valve on a block II or three. Because some brainiac decided to put the utility reservoir in the oil cooler/axial fan section. Like there isn't enough room in the hyd bay/main rotor pylon for it:ugh2: Every time I do that damn job I just want to go Punch the person in the face who designed it. If they had to actually do the work it would be changed in a heart beat.

Phel glade to see you work for Honeywell and as a engineer. For the love of god please redesign your damn starter for the t700-ge-401C engine because I am tired as hell of replacing them because if you look at them wrong the shaft sheers. Done ranting. still love you guys :happydance:

Yeah, I've been there for three years now and I love it. It's always great meeting a fellow UTC employee. Were I'm at we actually share the building with Pratt. Were not aloud to interact though lol. If a Sikorsky employee is caught in Pratt territory or vice versa it's grounds for immediate dismissal. Rather harsh for being owned by the same corporation lol.

I couldn't agree more lol. It's clear that a lot of our engineers were never mechanics at any point in their lives lol. Although the idea will look great on paper they don't neccessarly take all the factors into consdieration. Especially on the aircraft I'm building now. I'm up there everyday with them going over installs that either need to be resequenced in the build or just altered overall due to fitment issues. I been on the H-92 since I started there but I have some experience on the M's and L's. We build the S models up in Stratford CT, but I spent 6 months up there on the road and got to play around on them for a little. You could definitely tell it was designed 30 years ago lol.

We'll get right on that when we get some funding :p

And I really do find it mildly amusing that some engineers have little to no manufacturing experience whatsoever. I'm the only one in the group who has welded or used ANY of the tools in the machine shop. So mine all work and I promise you won't tear your hair out on components I design...most of the time:)

:rofl: Can you guys go make an Uber-nerd thread so we can keep this thread about the best kit out for the Z :rofl2: :gtfo2: