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Variation #8337 of 2006-’09 Hyundai Azera Oracle Halo Kit

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2007-’08 Hyundai Tiburon Oracle Halo Kit

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ORACLE Halos are the best Demon Eye Kits produced for any vehicle thus far! This kit utilizes Cold Cathode technology which, unlike the other LED and Fiber Optic Kits, can be seen vividly… even in Direct Sunlight! These rings are rated at 50,000 hours of continuous use, that’s more than twice the lifespan of the competition… these halos should outlive your car! Do not mistake this product for some “Do it yourself” LED knock off Demon Eye Kit, this is a High Quality Product produced by the new leaders of the industry!

What kind of “look” can I expect?

These Demon Eyes use CCFL (cold cathode florescent lighting) core technology. CCFL produces a very bright light from the gas charged tubes. The look is very “high tech” and matches HID equipped lights exceedingly well. Additionally, this technology provides for very bright output from the halo rings so they’re visible day or night.

What does the kit include?

Kit includes the following:

– (2) ORACLE CCFL Hi Beam Halo Rings
– (2) ORACLE CCFL Lo Beam Halo Rings
– (2) ORACLE XE Demon Eye Ballasts
– Halo Specific Wiring
– BONUS: Instructions to Custom Paint your Headlight Housings

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Chicago Car Audio Pioneer Touchscreen Navigation Radio Installation

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E&G Classics Custom Grille with Smoked Headlights, Tail Lights and LED Lights

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The E&G Classics Custom Grille looks beautiful on this 2010 Nissan Maxima. The fine mesh of this custom grille by E&G Classics is one of a kind! It brings out the true beauty of this masterpiece. To accompany the E&G Classics Mesh Grille, Mr. Kustom Chicago smoked the headlights and tail lights to bring a full elegant look to the vehicle. LED Strip Lights were installed under the smoked headlights making it stand out from the rest.

If you are interested in Smoked Tail Lights, Headlights, LED Lighting, or a Custom Grille in the Chicago area, please call 773-583-3770.

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Pontiac G8 Multi Colored Oracle Halo Headlights

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Mr. Kustom is the only certified dealer and installer in the Chicago area that handle Oracle Halo Lights. This Pontiac G8 had Oracle’s Multi Color ColorShift Halo Kit installed to the headlights and fog lights bringing a whole different look to the front of the vehicle.

ORACLE Lighting has been in business for over a decade with the one goal in mind of delivering the highest quality and most innovative lighting products. They’ve received accolades from numerous organizations for business practices including being listed on the Inc 500 list for the past 2 years consecutively. In today’s world of fly-by-night vendors we think it is important to partner with businesses that you can trust to be there for you today, tomorrow, and for years to come!

If you would like more information about our custom halo installation, please click HERE to contact us.

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Remote Starter Installation

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The cold weather is approaching fast and Remote Starters are on sale! Chicago winters can be brutal and why leave the comfort of your warm home to start your vehicle?

No need to with a Mr. Kustom Remote Start from the biggest names in the industry. Viper and Avital are the brands we carry because of there outstanding award winning technology.

With a remote car starter from Mr. Kustom in Chicago, you’ll have that added comfort to those cold wintery mornings.

 

Give Mr. Kustom Chicago a call today to hear more about our Remote Car Installation specials.

773-583-3770

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R.I.P Chris Economaki

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Chris Economaki narrated the rise of auto racing from county-fair dirt tracks to a global multibillion-dollar business.

His death was announced by National Speed Sport News, which Mr. Economaki owned, edited, published and transformed into, by most estimations, the bible of motor racing. He also wrote a column for it for 74 years.

Mr. Economaki maintained a romance with racing from the time he was a child sneaking over, under or through a fence into a raceway near his home in Ridgewood, N.J. He was soon selling photos he took with his Kodak Brownie camera and hawking the earliest editions of National Speed Sport News, then called National Auto Racing News, a weekly tabloid. By 14, he was writing a column, “Gas-O-Lines,” for the paper.

He introduced his distinctive spoken voice in 1951 to announce races at various tracks. It reminded some of a rumbling racing engine. A decade later, hired by ABC, he became one of the first television commentators in the sport. He forged a niche by explaining what mechanics and tire-changers did at pit stops.

Mr. Economaki reprised the role at CBS, ESPN and other networks, channels and radio stations. When Hollywood directors needed a racetrack announcer or commentator, they turned to him. He twice played himself in movies, in “Six Pack” (1982) and “Stroker Ace” (1983).

Mr. Economaki was a fixture in the sport in all its variations, showing up at Indianapolis, go-cart tracks, the Grand Prix circuit and drag races. Bill France Sr., who was often called the father of Nascar, was his patron. The champion driver Mario Andretti said, “If he wasn’t aware of you, you simply were not a factor in the sport.”

Mr. Economaki was considered the dean of American motorsports journalism well before he became the first journalist inducted into the Motorsports Hall of Fame, in 1994. The Road Racing Drivers Club said in his biography: “No driver in any series, no publicist, no sanctioning-body head will ignore his phone call.”

Christopher Constantine Economaki was born on Oct. 15, 1920, in the front bedroom of his grandmother’s home in Brooklyn. His father, Christopher, was a Greek immigrant; his mother, Gladys, was a great-niece of Robert E. Lee. He lived most of his life in Ridgewood. The family fell into poverty after the 1929 stock market crash.

Mr. Economaki said the first race he watched was on a board track in Atlantic City when he was 9. At a track near his home, he would sneak into races by lying on the running board of a car as it passed through the ticket gate.

He volunteered to sell 200 copies of the first issue of National Auto Racing News for a nickel each, and earned a penny a copy. Take-home pay of $2 a day was good during the Depression, he said. His high school yearbook predicted he would spend his working years in auto racing.

At 17, he said, he hitchhiked to Indianapolis with $15 in his pocket, spent a week watching races and returned with $3 in his pocket. In 1938-39, he traveled the eastern half of the United States as a mechanic for Duane Carter, a driver of very small racecars called midgets. He served in the Army in Europe during World War II and experienced combat.

After the war, he noticed that the most popular tracks had the best announcers, so he honed his speaking skills and became an announcer at a succession of tracks. In 1961, France, who had founded Nascar, agreed to let ABC broadcast the Firecracker 250 from his track at Daytona, provided that Mr. Economaki was part of the team. In an interview with The Boston Globe in 1983, Mr. Economaki said he had refused to read the lines a director gave him and instead wrote his own.

“ ‘Not bad,’ the guy said, and I went on the air,” Mr. Economaki recalled.

He wanted to broadcast from the press box, but ABC could find no one to equal his performance as a track-side commentator describing the action in the pits. “I try to tell stories while explaining the machinery,” he said.

His signature line: “This is Chris Economaki in the pits.”

After 23 years at ABC, Mr. Economaki switched to CBS Sports, for which he covered Daytona 500s and Formula One Grand Prix events. In 1995, CBS dismissed him after he used a racially charged phrase in a column.

Mr. Economaki’s wife, the former Alvera Helene Tomljanovic, died in 2001. He is survived by two daughters, Corinne Economaki and Tina Riedl, and two grandchildren.

For all Mr. Economaki’s intimacy with racecars, he raced one only once. At 16, he drove a midget car on a cinder track carved from a used-car lot in Ashley, Pa.

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Porsche previews new Panamera wagon

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Porsche has provided the clearest hint yet that its long-held plans of expanding the Panamera lineup to include a sporting wagon are real with the unveiling of the Panamera Sport Turismo concept at the Paris auto show.

The concept showcases, for the first time, a plug-in version of Porsche’s gasoline-electric hybrid system. The car is one of at least three new Panamera-based models that have been under consideration at Porsche since the car was launched in 2009.

Key visual changes over the existing Panamera include an extended roofline, a longer glasshouse and an angled tailgate that opens at bumper height.

Wagon joins the lineup

The unveiling of the rival Mercedes-Benz CLS shooting brake at the Paris show will coincide with Porsche boss Mathias Muller confirming the new style-led wagon will form part of the second-generation Panamera lineup. The new Panamera’s platform will be shared with future Bentley models as part of closer engineering ties between the two Volkswagen Group companies.

The new car also gives Porsche a potential four-door challenger to the similarly styled but two-door-only Ferrari FF.

“The body concept of the Panamera Sport Turismo is an outlook on a possible Porsche sports car of tomorrow,” says Muller, without providing any official time line for the introduction of the production version. However, sources close to Porsche say the new wagon will debut in 2016, with production set for the company’s Leipzig-based factory, which also turns out the Cayenne and is set to handle production of the upcoming Macan.

Porsche says it investigated spinning a wagon off the current Panamera design, but the high cost of re-engineering the rear body structure, including vital changes to the bulkhead to open up the loading area, proved prohibitive.

As such, the new model has been integrated into the development process of the second-generation Panamera lineup from the start, ensuring its production can be amortized with other models.

“In terms of the overall concept, the wagon is not too far removed from the liftback. Both use a large tailgate, with the structure engineered appropriately to suit both,” Porsche told Autoweek.

The decision to push ahead with plans for a Panamera wagon has been driven by customer feedback, Porsche says. “We have existing Panamera owners who seek greater practicality but don’t necessarily see the Cayenne as a solution.”

While no official figures have been quoted for the size of its luggage compartment, the Panamera Sport Turismo is said to offer seven cubic feet more than the Panamera liftback, which holds 15.7 cubic feet, on the European test procedure. This would place it close to the Audi A6 Avant, which is good for 20.0 cubic feet, and the Mercedes CLS shooting brake at 20.8 cubic feet.

As well as formalizing plans for a new Panamera wagon, the Sport Turismo also provides solid clues to the appearance of all second-generation Panamera models.
New styling previewed

As well as formalizing plans for a new Panamera wagon, the Sport Turismo also provides solid clues to the appearance of all second-generation Panamera models. The classic proportions remain, with a long, sweeping hood dominating the side profile. However, there has been a conscious effort to rid the new car of the bloated look of the existing liftback, with tauter surfacing treatment and the use of subtle creases within the body to break up large expanses of bodywork.

Among the details developed by Porsche design boss Michael Mauer and his team of in-house designers for the new car are newly shaped headlamps with distinctive double-deck LED graphics, a more heavily contoured hood, greater structuring to the flanks with a reinterpreted version of the brake cooling graphic incorporated behind the front wheel arches, a more prominent lip to the rear wheel arches to accentuate the stance and thinner LED taillamps that, in a nod to classic 911 models, are connected by a reflector strip.

In a move that indicates Porsche is looking to adopt new rear view technology on its next generation of cars, the Panamera Sport Turismo does without conventional exterior mirrors. Their job is taken care of by two cameras mounted within the side air outlets, with images shown on a display in the cabin.

At 194.9 inches long, 78.3 inches wide and 55.2 inches tall, the Porsche concept car is 0.8 inch shorter, 2.4 inches wider and 0.7 inch lower than the soon-to-be-facelifted Panamera liftback. By comparison, the Mercedes-Benz CLS Shooting Brake is 196.9 inches long, 74.1 inches wide and 55.6 inches high.

New plug-in hybrid system

As well as previewing its plans for a wagon, the concept car showcases a powerful new plug-in hybrid drive system Porsche intends to begin offering with the second-generation Panamera and facelifted second-generation Cayenne in the middle of the decade as part of its Intelligent Performance initiative.

Called e-hybrid, the Porsche-developed system uses an upgraded version of the existing Panamera hybrid’s brushless synchronous electric motor mounted within the forward section of the gearbox housing, delivering 94 hp. It is supported by the same Audi-sourced 328-hp supercharged 3.0-liter V6 gasoline engine used today.

Together, the electric motor and V6 provide a combined system output of 410 hp — a good 35 hp more than today’s Panamera hybrid. The plug-in powertrain will propel the next-generation Panamera from 0 to 62 mph in less than 6 seconds while providing combined fuel consumption on the European test cycle better than 67.2 mpg.

Energy for the electric motor is provided by a 9.4kWh lithium-ion battery mounted in the floor of the trunk. It is planned to replace the nickel-hydride battery used by the current Panamera hybrid, with plug-in compatibility allowing it to be externally charged within 2.5 hours via a high voltage wall mounted charger.

At 194.9 inches long, 78.3 inches wide and 55.2 inches tall, the Porsche concept wagon is 0.8 inch shorter, 2.4 inches wider and 0.7 inch lower than the soon-to-be-facelifted Panamera liftback.
Porsche claims an all-electric range of 18.6 miles at speeds up to 81 mph, values that Zuffenhausen insiders suggest will be reflected on production versions of the second-generation Panamera. To optimize the range, the driver can select an e-charge mode via a button on the steering wheel to increase the amount of kinetic energy that is recuperated under braking and on periods of trailing throttle.

Another facet of the Panamera Sport Turismo that is tipped to be adopted on future Porsche models is its new graphics-based instruments and touch sensitive interior control architecture.

Other new Panamera models wait in the wings

Porsche boss Mathias Muller has constantly indicated a desire to extend the lineup and create added economies of scale in production through the addition of further Panamera models. “The Sport Turismo is the first step in what is likely to be a significant program,” an insider privy to Porsche’s future model plans told Autoweek.

Other new Panamera-based models that are thought to have already been approved for production during the latter half of the decade include a more compact coupe and cabriolet pairing to rival the BMW 6-series and Mercedes-Benz E-class.

They are conceived to sit on a modified version of the Panamera platform with a shortened wheelbase but sharing the same chassis components. The shortened wheelbase platform is also being considered for a smaller sedan/liftback model positioned below the Panamera.

The wagon concept is one of at least three new Panamera-based models that have been under consideration at Porsche since the car was launched in 2009.

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