Discontinuing our 3S products

[IPD]

Yeah. like are you eliminating stock at 90% off or something?

[bboyalan]

Well, I'm disappointed, because we don't have a lot of vendors period, and you guys always had some good options. If you had been more consistent I am sure you would still have a strong 3/s following.

Agreed! I guess that I will be keeping my extended capacity racing oil pan forever now lol =P FWIW, Stas did maintain communication and managed a quick turnaround with my core shipped in advance. This was in 2013 though...

[JoshXT]

Stas are you guys going to be selling off the remainder of your stock of parts? If so, maybe a thread of parts you have would be a good idea? Since you're local, I'd probably come take some stuff off your hands for a good price.

I got my FMIC kit from Fabberge, I'm happy with it and the price was right. I had a few problems with the actual install, but Stas was nice enough to have the kit installed for me at no extra cost. Hard to complain at that labor rate..

[Alan92RTTT]

i understand that, but it wasn't a simple name change, it was a complete separation of two companies for that reason. so that fabberge can provide products on time, etc. intention was not to fool anyone, it had good intentions. ips should of been closed a long time ago. i tried to make it right, yes, that is why i made that post a long time ago. unfortunately it was rotted beyond repair. fabberge on the other hand i tried my best to keep reputation up, i shipped out products as soon as i possibly could. company kept small (all new people too) so it can operate better and provide customers with positive experience. i understand everyones attitude towards my companies and where the lack of interest is coming from. that is why, as much as i didn't want to, we are discontinuing our 3s items.

I think perception is your biggest issue.

You did not work hard enough to make sure that people understood that it was a complete split between you and Jeff. Even after you split from IPS having guys show up to the NG wearing IPS gear did not help the perception that the two companies were still joined in some manner.

[DrGonzo]

Example of what is going on, Sorry to link to the other site but it is useful information for the platform: Status of IPS Motorsports?? - 3000GT/Stealth International Message Center

[LeRoyDL]

Example of what is going on, Sorry to link to the other site but it is useful information for the platform: Status of IPS Motorsports?? - 3000GT/Stealth International Message Center

This! Read the first 4 posts, this is the consensus.

[rawavr4]

Another one here.

I've added the extended capacity oil pan to a shopping cart more than a few times. But after searching the forums and seeing people who ordered them and waited extended times for delivery I never pulled the trigger.

I've done this a few times myself. But that was a while ago, and I didn't have a core.

[Ange]

I got an AC delete kit yesterday that I just ordered earlier this week, and was hoping to get an oil cooler kit when I had more funds. Shame you're cutting back on most products, like the tubular crash bar and extended capacity oil pan.

I missed some of the Skillard products I wanted too, but with a car down for over 3 1/2 years, I didn't spend much on upgrades, and now I wish I did. But, being unemployed for the last 3 months (and still), it's difficult to do.

Never dealt with IPS so I won't comment on that, but the limited bit of business I did with Fabberge, I'm happy with.

dont need any delete kit for that except a 1025mm belt(if I remember right could be +-5mm), a cambelt excentric pulley and a few washers to shim the pulley out

that way you get rid of the heavy ac bracket aswell...

[JoshXT]

A lot of you haven't even had personal negative experiences with them and you're acting like they smacked you around and told you that your mother is ugly.

Most of you are going off of 2 or 3 people who had negative experiences and made a really big deal about it. And so they should, if I have a bad experience with any company, I always make sure the world knows to the best of my abilities. Now I didn't have the most top notch experience and I'm not trying to white knight at all here, but I would call my experience with Stas a satisfactory one personally. They screwed up a little bit and he recognized that, owned it and made up for it.

Unless they screwed you personally, get over it. If you read any of SoarinBy's posts (the guy who most people base 3S experience with IPS on), you'd know that he isn't knowledgeable at all on these cars and he was fine with just throwing money at his Spyder. Labor costs add up, he put an obnoxious amount of money into the car then had buyers remorse when it came time to pay the bill and the car wasn't ready still.

There are two sides to every story, I've done business with Jeff when IPS was around, he never let me down. Now I've done business with Stas with Fabberge, I was let down at first but like I said, he took responsibility for the problem and he made up for it.

Also, if I was them, I wouldn't want to make parts for these cars either. People buy a $150 down pipe from them and expect it to be as good of quality fitment as a $300 3SX down pipe. Something as simple as loosening the bolts on the rear precat to fit them on there is all you have to do to make it fit, but that isn't good enough for people lol. Sorry to be ranty but I spent $550 on an FMIC kit from Fabberge, it seems to be pretty good quality, but it is no $1500 ETS kit. Who cares, it functions just as well as far as I know, it just didn't fit as easily lol. They offered parts that worked just as well for a lot less money, they just required a little more work to install. Now we have one less option and have to look more towards those more expensive parts.

[GrabberOrange]

I think most people are giving feedback as to went they didn't purchase. Good intentions does not make a good business. You're one of the few that I've read about that has a satisfactory experience. From my perception there's more bad than good. That is reason enough for me not to give them my business. I don't like giving anyone hundreds of dollars and cross my fingers I'll have a good experience.