I'm in,
Where do I sign my 150lb ass up? Never underestimate the fight in the dog.
Brian
10 bucks on who ever skinny is fighting. lol
Actually, the cage would have to be aluminum, with designs milled into it.
Then, let the fighting begin!
I'm in,
Where do I sign my 150lb ass up? Never underestimate the fight in the dog.
Brian
I'm in,
Where do I sign my 150lb ass up? Never underestimate the fight in the dog.
Brian
10 bucks on who ever skinny is fighting. lol
help me out here Dave as I am having trouble reading between the lines. Are you saying the other guys do not start out with a chunk of 6061 and end up with a cover? What are they doing, starting with a casting? Not that that's a bad thing I guess. You just keep saying that and it's perked my intrest is all.
Do they sell enough of these to justify the casting tooling costs??
help me out here Dave as I am having trouble reading between the lines. Are you saying the other guys do not start out with a chunk of 6061 and end up with a cover? What are they doing, starting with a casting? Not that that's a bad thing I guess. You just keep saying that and it's perked my intrest is all.
I would jump in and say, "probably."
A $3-5 casting versus a $15-20 peice of material.
Brian
Do they sell enough of these to justify the casting tooling costs??
Tooling cost for a part like that isn't that bad.
Brian
Tooling cost for a part like that isn't that bad.
Brian
Are talking 2-3000 or are we talking 15-20,000? Just wondering about the volume they sell.
skinny mofos throwing down in a trick billet aluminum CNC'd designed cage........ let the games begin
damn this is starting to sound like PPV material.
Are talking 2-3000 or are we talking 15-20,000? Just wondering about the volume they sell.
I'm talking 1-300-500-1000.
At five times the price for a piece of raw material, just to machine it down to what you end up with a casting, it doesn't take that many parts to justify it. At least in my opinion.
But a casting isn't as nice of quality as billet though.
Polishing, chroming- niether is as easy or looks as good.
Powercoating wouldn't matter much, I don't think.
But like anything else, you get what you pay for.
Brian
True........
How'd the mini-Bimmer go over? Nephew dig it??
It's all he talks about.. Thanks again for that!!
RD
help me out here Dave as I am having trouble reading between the lines. Are you saying the other guys do not start out with a chunk of 6061 and end up with a cover? What are they doing, starting with a casting? Not that that's a bad thing I guess. You just keep saying that and it's perked my intrest is all.
That's exactly what I'm saying. Almost everyone elses is stamped though, not cast. Not that being stamped is a bad thing.. To be quite honest if I was going to make a run at the speaker grill market that's the only way I'd go is short run stampings. Only difference being I wouldn't sell them as "billet" covers when there not. I respect RCD quite a bit for that, they actually sell a true "billet" cover where as most others do not.
On a side note though, I thought the Billet Boyz covers where by far and away the best ones going. Nice hidden mounting screws, clean install, with a screen behind the pattern to still protect the speaker etc.. etc..
RD