German Coverage for Daystar's FC at SEMA 2014

The German website Focus.de had a video recap of all the cool show vehicles and booths at SEMA 2014. Of course, our brand new Jeep FC was featured in their coverage.

Here's the video recap.

Daystar Products at SEMA 2014!

     The 2014 SEMA Show was a great event for Daystar. We enjoyed meeting all of you and sharing what it is we do with the off road, and automotive aftermarket  community.  

Our CEO, Mark Turner was invited to speak on NHTSA FMVSS 126 Compliance standards at the Vehicle Dynamics Forum.  Many of our Comfort Ride Lift and Leveling Kits are compliant with the strict safety standards set by the government including: Ford F150, Ford Super Duty, Chevy Silverado/GMC Sierra, Dodge Rams and Jeep JKs. These standards ensure that aftermarket lift and leveling kits don't compromise the enhanced vehicle control provided by the OEM's Electronic Stability Control system. 

Two of the products you responded to most enthusiastically at SEMA are our Cam Cans (to which we've added all-new Black models), and our new Hood Cowl.  Below are the displays from our SEMA 2014 booth for each of these product lines.

 Here are the Cam Can mounts for UTVs, allowing for more storage anywhere on your vehicle.

 Here's a side-by-side configuration for our black liquid storage, and for the orange equipment Cam Can storage unit.

 Here's the typical Cam Can configuration, mounted on the spare...

And here's a closer view showing how the Cam Can fits flush within the tire.










Many people were curious as to what makes our Hood Cowl different than vent systems by other manufacturers. This display demonstrates how "under hood heat" is drawn away from the engine compartment  even when you are moving slowly across the terrain or even standing still.  

• Reduces Under Hood Temperatures by 12%
• Structural Integrity of the Hood Remains Intact
• Templates Provided For Precise Installation
• Under Hood Insulation is Retained
• Fully Paintable
• Comes Complete With All Necessary Parts
• Made In The USA

 Here's the display showing how light and durable the abs plastic construction is for our Hood Cowl.  This allows for less installation time and effort, a perfect surface for paint, and a stylish addition to your Jeep's look.

 Here you see how the Heat is drawn away from the engine compartment and out through the Cowl's vents. All without having to compromise the integrity of your Jeep's hood, or removing the factory insulation.

And a closer look. Each Daystar Hood Cowl comes complete with detailed installation instructions,  and we've even produced a video to show you how easy it is to install.













Again, thanks for coming by to see us at SEMA, and we hope that we'll see you again at one of the many Offroad Events we attend throughout the year.

SEE US AT SEMA 2014!

The SEMA Show is the automotive aftermarket's biggest event of the year where literally hundreds

(thousands?) of companies gather together at the Las Vegas Convention Center to showcase their innovative products to enhance your driving experience.  Daystar is proud to join our colleagues in the industry and show the offroad audience what it is we do better than anyone else.

If you're attending the show, please drop by and visit us at our booths. We'd love to hear from you, and show you what we have in store for your offroading enjoyment --  The Best Jeep Lift Kits,  Hood Accessories,  Our Patented Cam Cans, Truck Accessories, and much more.

You'll also get an up close and personal look at our latest project vehicle:

Again, if you're attending the SEMA Show please stop by and say, "hi."  We'd love to hear from you!

Daystar Products Hood Cowl: A Customer Shows Us The Awesome

It's one thing for us to talk about how awesome Daystar's Hood Cowl is -- that's part of our job description - but when a customer sends us pictures showing us how awesome it is, then that speaks louder than any words we can use.

One of our customers who identified himself as "Dave" sent us these pictures for use on our Facebook page.  We think Dave has an incredibly sleek ride and we like how he integrated the Hood Cowl into his look.  Check it out and tell us what you think. While you're at it please join us on Facebook for more fantastic Jeep stuff like this or you can check out our Youtube Channel filled with "views you can use."  

Dave - thanks for choosing not only our Hood Cowl, but our Hood Wranglers, and Lower Dash Panels to max out your ride.

With Daystar It's Always An Event!

Today we thought we'd catch you up on some of the awesome Offroad Events we've attended recently.  It's always great to get out and meet the folks who use our products and keep us working hard to design and develop new ones to meet the demands of the offroad.

Here are some of the wonderful places we've been to and people we've met in recent months:

RALLY VENTURE:  Reno, NV  July 16th
Kelly and Mark just competed in the 1st ever Rally Venture at the Silver State Jamboree in Reno, NV.  The field was full of industry people, Top Ultra 4 racers, and Offroad racers.  Many of the rigs were Ultra 4 built vehicles.  After 16 hours running,  Kelly and Mark finished the course in 9th overall out of 20 rigs.





SEMA CHARITY PINEWOOD DERBY:  July 18th 
We blasted through to the SEMA Charity Pinewood Derby car race.  The Team worked very hard getting our 3 entries ready.

• Daystar Silver Stock took 1st place!
• The JK unlimited class took 4th.
• LTAA Truck finished 3rd.

SAND BLASTED AT OREGON DUNEFEST: July 30th - August 3rd
We spent the most incredible weekend with the coolest sand loving, grit eating, crazed people we have ever met. We brought along our Fire Breathing, nitro burning JK just to see what she could do in the sand.

WOO BABY! 

We were presently surprised and so were the fans. We made it all the way to the Quarter Finals before getting beat out by our competition.

Haley Wilson's TJ Sand Drag Jeep was crazy fast yesterday and needed to keep the hood down, so she came over to the Daystar booth at Dunefest, and bingo! We installed new Daystar Hood Wranglers.

We can’t wait until next year!
THANKS, FANS!
SEE YOU SOON AT AN EVENT NEAR YOU!

Daystar Products Cam Can UTV & Rollbar Mounting System

One of our most popular offroad accessory lines is our patented, award-winning Cam Cans.  Designed for offroad storage, the Daystar Cam Can line now mounts to your UTV rollbar 
(Fits 1” , 1-½”, 1-¾” and 2” bars) providing you with a storage area for tools, for drinking water, and for petroleum based fluids.

Cam Cans are easy to install and  can lock together providing you with extra storage that can be set at any angle on your rollbar.  Here’s our latest video showing easily the Black Cam Can is mounted on a UTV using our new Cam Can UTV & Rollbar Mounting System:

Here's a closeup view of the mounting plate:













And here it is mounted on a UTV. Note the Double Cam on the left and the single cam on the right:

Of course, like all Daystar products,  Cam Cans are Made in the USA!

For more information on this, and our other award-winning Cam Can products,  please visit our website here.

Daystar Products New Hood Cowl for the Jeep JK Wrangler 2007- 2015

One of the biggest, and most challenging problems facing the Jeep JK owner is the amount of heat generated under the hood of the vehicle when it's offroad.  This is one of the reasons why the factory places the insulation barrier under the hood - to  to reduce noise and to protect your paint job from excessive heat. The problem is that is often the insulation itself isn't enough, and the paint bubbles up or cracks anyway.

There have been several different designs of hood cowls by other manufacturers, but in one way or another while they addressed the under hood heat problem - they also created other problems like weakening the structure of your Jeep's hood.  When Daystar took up the challenge of creating a hood cowl that removed this under hood heat, we also wanted to take up other challenges:

• Most hood cowls and venting systems are fine when driving, but what about when you're doing a slow crawl over a rock face, revving the motor and only moving forward a couple of feet at a time? 

• What about weight and paintability?  Do we want to install a large item such as a cowl that will be a bear to match the paint on your existing hood?  What about the cost? 

• How easy is it going to be to install?  Will you have to go to the body shop, or will you be able to do it yourself?  

With our new Daystar Products Hood Cowl for the Jeep JK Wrangler we've solved all those problems and more.  The Hood Cowl reduces under hood temperatures,  keeps the structural integrity of the hood, is easy to install with templates provided for precise installation, keeps the under hood insulation from the factory,  is fully paintable, comes complete with all necessary parts, and is of course,  Made In The USA. 

The Hood Cowl is made from ABS plastic which is light, strong and holds paint well.  The design of the Cowl in conjunction with the vents is made to draw the heat away from the engine compartment even when the Jeep is standing still. 

The effectiveness of the Daystar JK Cowl and hood vents been tested. Throughout the development process the design and placement of the vents underwent severe scrutiny. To start we went to MOPAR and used their information on current hot spots under the JK hood, on JKs equipped with 3.8L and 3.6L engines.

We then went to the V8 conversion companies and added their data. This information was use to determine where and how large the vents needed to be and then located.

The next step was to determine how air flowed under, around and over the hood at idle, low and high

speed. This information would determine the location, shape and size of the vents, our goal from the onset of this project was to design a set of products that would work in concert to reduce under hood temperatures. The side and front center vents we placed in hot spots ( for low speed and stopped operation) so that excessive under hood could escape using simple thermodynamics, heat rises. The design of the front center vents need to be tackled from two directions: Under the hood they protrude into the airflow and "grab" the heat, above the hood they are shaped to redirect the air flow, thus creating a low pressure area that forces the high pressure air moving over the hood to create a vacuum that "pulls air from under the hood.

The front center vent and Cowl front opening were placed to eliminate a hot spot, but more importantly to remove air from directly behind the radiator. As air is introduced through the radiator at speed it builds up under the hood creating a high pressure area. This reduces the effectiveness of the radiator as incoming air "runs" into increasing resistance. the front vent and cowl are the first line of defense and get the air that comes off the fan, while the side vents allow the air that is moving around the motor to escape. An good example of the build up of pressure under the JK hood is how it flutters at higher speeds. [On a side note: the combination of our hood vents and Hood Wranglers will virtually eliminate the fluttering hood problem]

What does this all equate to? When designing the vents we focused on the extraction of heat under high and low speed conditions, something none of our competitors have done. Check it out:




For more information on our Hood Cowl and other Hood Accessories please visit:  www.daystarproducts.com 

Daystar Products Upper Dash Panel for the 2007-2010 Jeep Wrangler JK

Since Daystar began in 1977 designing and manufacturing precision plastic components, we have manufactured millions of plastic components every year.  One of the most useful products we have created to solve the storage problem in the Jeep JK is our Upper Dash Panel KJ71020.

Daystar Products Upper Dash Panels create useable space for interiors where storage is always a problem. Perfectly suited for items such as cell phones, sunglasses, MP3 players, and GPS units, our dash panels are perfect for anything that needs storage but also needs to remain readily accessible. Our dash panels also match the texture and lines of the rest of the dash for a factory look. Daystar Products P/N # KJ71020 fit’s all 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, Jeep Wrangler JK. All Daystar Products are proudly Made In The USA and feature our Lifetime Go Everywhere Warranty. 


Below is a video showing you exactly how easy it is to change the look of your Jeep JK and provide yourself with useful storage. 

Welcome to the Daystar Products Blog!

Hello Everyone,

As the title says, "welcome to the Daystar Products blog."  Here is where you'll get the straight talk on:

Daystar Products.

What goes into the making of a new lift and leveling kit?  Or our new Hood Cowls and Vents?  Why are we "Made in the USA?" What's coming up in the near future?  What are the tech specs for a certain product?  How do I install it?

(We have a whole series of videos on Youtube that will help you out)

From Dash Panels to Cam Cans to our famous Lift & Leveling Kits.  You'll learn it all.

Pictures and notes from our attending various Jeep Events.

What shows will we be attending through the year?  What is going on with our latest Jeep builds?
What sort of swag will we have at various events?


The people who bring you the finest quality Jeep accessories made right here in the USA.
 

Who are the folks who design these products?  What goes into shipping you the parts you need for your Jeep or truck?

You'll see all of this and more cool stuff that fits right in with the offroad lifestyle.  We hope you'll join us here and on our other social media  (see right) to learn more about why Daystar is the number one in Jeep Accessories.