Just another day at the shop
For those not familiar with our shop in Brookfield, CT, we carry some great brands and get to work on some very cool cars including this 2022 Porsche 911 Turbo S Cabriolet.
Our shop does a lot of audio upgrades in various Porsche, Audi, BMW and Mercedes models. Because of that, we carry brands that cater towards European makes. One such brand is Helix and their sister company Match. Both have been featured a lot in our more recent posts on the blog and our YouTube channel. The North American distributor for both brands is MSC-America. MSC also offers some pretty cool integration products for the Escort Redline Ci 360c. I’ve been waiting for the chance to utilize said cool product and sort of finally got the chance to with this Porsche 992.
Custom install kit for Redline ci 360C
If you’ve done any research on the Redline Ci 360C, you may have noticed the very snazzy custom install pics on Escort’s website featuring a Porsche 992 with a sport bumper. The control pad sits snuggly against the dash in an attractive, angular housing that matches the instrument cluster profile perfectly.
The display sits proud on the steering column in an expertly molded pod. The positioning makes it easy for the driver to see without taking their eyes off the road. The front and rear laser shifters are attached to the front and rear bumper with similar custom molded pods. It’s exactly how any Porsche 992 owner would want the Escort Redline to be installed.
When I first saw those pictures on Escort’s website I thought, “Wow. We really need to get a 3D printer and learn how to use it. That looks so clean.” But then life goes on, the shop is busy, I’m helping customers, answering phones, texts + emails, booking jobs, ordering inventory, helping John with a final tuning tweak or troubleshooting something and poof! The 3D printer thought goes out of my head. Until one day, I was chatting with one of the fine folks from MSC and I learned that this wasn’t some one-off installation completed by an unknown master technician. The Redline Ci 360C in the Porsche 992 you see on Escort’s website was completed by the team at MSC who have actually designed and built these housings – which are available for purchase! Mind blown.
From that point forward I had it in the back of my head to offer this option at the very 1st chance I had. It took nearly a year for that opportunity to present itself, but as soon as it did I closed the deal. Before the client had even taken delivery of his vehicle, he signed up for the Escort Redline with the optional 992 custom install kit.
The car arrived along with the parts and John was ready to execute. There was just one problem. It didn’t have the same bumper. Since the client didn’t have the car in his possession when we scheduled the work, we checked compatibility using a pic from the original vehicle listing. It was hard to tell from the image, but this 992 was in fact slightly different than the one shown on Escort’s website. It did not have the front camera. And the rear bumper? That was totally different.
John had to modify the front outer 2 housings slightly to fit in the correct location. After providing some measurements on the rear bumper, MSC was able to create custom housings for the rear. Although this install didn’t go exactly as planned, the end result yielded the same outcome. The Escort Redline was professionally installed in an elegant and timeless manner.
To learn more about an Escort Redline Ci 360C installation for your vehicle reach out to our shop, Sounds Incredible Mobile in Brookfield, CT. If you’re a Porsche owner interested in this custom Redline Ci 360C install kit, but you are located well outside our area, please reach out to MSC-America to find an expert near you.
