thepope540
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They are in progress, as I ship I'll update the thread with names.
3" Downpipe Group Buy / Fire Sale - $275 shipped???
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They are in progress, as I ship I'll update the thread with names.
Spiced MSP
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awesome, thanks again
JDMazdaFamilia
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^you no like external wga?
Bump for updated shipping list
Bump for updated shipping list
Spiced MSP
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Hmm
Maybe he got the flanges for the manifolds and has been working day and night to fulfill all orders?
Regardless last piece once I receive dp doing a 3 inch exhaust!
Maybe he got the flanges for the manifolds and has been working day and night to fulfill all orders?
Regardless last piece once I receive dp doing a 3 inch exhaust!
sad to see you go tom... you were a great fabricator. getting castings from china was always way more impressive than anything I did.
for anyone on here whos secretly bellyaching about tom getting out of the game, i SOLD my MSP because fabricating was taking all my time, and having it around would always be a temptation to get back into it. as much as he charges for this stuff, when its all boiled down to customer service, ordering, packing, shipping, and of course fabricating, the AMM's on here work for about $5 per hour on a good day, and it is a full time job in itself.
ever do anything with that CF stuff i sold you?
for anyone on here whos secretly bellyaching about tom getting out of the game, i SOLD my MSP because fabricating was taking all my time, and having it around would always be a temptation to get back into it. as much as he charges for this stuff, when its all boiled down to customer service, ordering, packing, shipping, and of course fabricating, the AMM's on here work for about $5 per hour on a good day, and it is a full time job in itself.
ever do anything with that CF stuff i sold you?
thepope540
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This - a downpipe takes me less than an hour so a days work goes a long way, but manifolds take between 10 and 15 hours each and I have 3 to finish, plus my cousin has had his integra here for about a month waiting on a full system, its was the first week of school this past week and while the students were only in the building for two 8 eight hour days, I worked 50 or so hours.
I think I do a little better than $5... I think I've hit $6 at times
Haven't seen you around. How you been? I've gone off the deep end and bought a trans am. Its great hill billy fun. I just can't get over how easy it is to make crazy power. For less than $1500 bucks and one Saturday's work I'll have this thing putting 400+ to the wheels and for another $1500 that will be closer to 550 - and nothing will break
Every scrap of carbon got turned into rockets. My team last year decided that they wanted to go big, and they hand laid body tubes, nose cones, fins, baffles, etc and then very carfeully assembled some of the best looking rockets I've ever seen. It was very cool. Here's a video of some of my students from one of the first launches on the "little" rocket.<object width="720" height="480"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"></param><param name="movie" value="https://www.facebook.com/v/2492273194651"></param><embed src="https://www.facebook.com/v/2492273194651" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="1" width="720" height="480"></embed></object>
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says video unavailale... dont know if thats on my end or if its your privacy settings or something.
for the record the only thing i made any kind of reasonable money on was the vacuum blocks, which probably netted me about $6-8 an hour. rings were way way less than that, im guessing $1.50 an hour. fiberglass was probably $3. carl ended up with the one production set of cf eyelids i did and i think he sold them for something like $120. they were 1000x better than anything from DGM for sure. but hey gotta put the time in up front -- if the dave b's came out perfectly im sure that would have eventually brought the number up. the tolerances on that were so tight that the amount of shrinkage from the cured cluster vs. the mold would determine how well they fit. don't know how dave did it. crazy s***. and yeah youre right you probably haul in a little more but i never got out of that "first batch" phase with anything outside the vacuum blocks... hard to make money that way.
im doing alright living in NYC working as a structural engineer. lots of old buildings, lots of people, with lots of money. so yeah we keep busy. driving a '96 SE-R. niiiiiice. but of everyone i know, its the nicest car. the trans am sounds sweet -- what year?
for the record the only thing i made any kind of reasonable money on was the vacuum blocks, which probably netted me about $6-8 an hour. rings were way way less than that, im guessing $1.50 an hour. fiberglass was probably $3. carl ended up with the one production set of cf eyelids i did and i think he sold them for something like $120. they were 1000x better than anything from DGM for sure. but hey gotta put the time in up front -- if the dave b's came out perfectly im sure that would have eventually brought the number up. the tolerances on that were so tight that the amount of shrinkage from the cured cluster vs. the mold would determine how well they fit. don't know how dave did it. crazy s***. and yeah youre right you probably haul in a little more but i never got out of that "first batch" phase with anything outside the vacuum blocks... hard to make money that way.
im doing alright living in NYC working as a structural engineer. lots of old buildings, lots of people, with lots of money. so yeah we keep busy. driving a '96 SE-R. niiiiiice. but of everyone i know, its the nicest car. the trans am sounds sweet -- what year?
Spiced MSP
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I think he is bouncing between working on the downpipes and working on manifolds at the same time
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JDMazdaFamilia
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Holy s*** you waited 8 months?! Lol
Spiced MSP
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for the 505 mani, yeah. I sent my first payment for one and paid it off in the middle of last year while in Iraq and got it last month. Good quality custom products take time and are definitely worth the wait.
its true, and 3 weeks is seriously nothing to wait. if youve been paid in full for over 2 months, or tom made a promise he didnt deliver & didnt keep you up to speed on progress, thats different.
otherwise... really. its not like hes shipping you a 2.5" universal cat hes pulling off a shelf.
otherwise... really. its not like hes shipping you a 2.5" universal cat hes pulling off a shelf.
Spiced MSP
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I think pope is beyond tired..lol. I found this post in SCMP3's build thread: I knocked out two pipes today between working on other things. I don't remember who they're for off hand, but I'll update with names when they ship.
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thepope540
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Thanks! Its been a very productive but exhausting day. Its not a good sign when I'm not even posting in the right thread...
