Dave-Co wrote:
I am a class A aerospace fabricator-welder by trade, I have welded on every space shuttle launched, also building winning off road race cars for the Baja 1000 Baja 500, the Mint 400 among others in my spare time, I do cage work, A arm suspensions on buggies Bajas and trucks on a daily basis on the side, my hands have been on many of the Score series winning cars and trucks over the years. I enjoyed reading this thread up till he made the statement he has 30 hours into each set! I fault no one trying to make a product and making money for others to enjoy, I get good money welding on winning trophy trucks, Dakar cars,that is what makes the world go around. but that 30 hours into them could have been left unsaid, it casts a cloud on everything else he has said. I don't know him from Adam but I do know tube work and welding extreemly well, in my garage a couple hours is more inline, if I had jigs all ready to go??. like his site shows. don't be fooled, the profit margin on these arms and from the others offering FL400 pilot long travel arms or any other long travel ATV quad arms is huge, gigantic, 85-90% or more profit, especialy if using DOM tubing or mild steel which pilots need nothing more like 4130 for a light little car but even if 4130 is used there may be 50 to 60 bucks for the arm material. forsure the arms with no hymes or ball joints for 700+ Yes you have to have the equipment to do this, but if you do, things go extreamly fast. He does, but claim 30 hours?, enjoy this site . Sorry for the rant, much respect to hoser and your site---Dave
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Have no clue how many actual hours he put into fabricating the arms from what I understand he is not a fabricator by trade he is doing all this in his garage did his 30 hrs include all the bushings he has to make for each hiem joint on his lathe I spent over 6 hours fabricating the last set of hiem reducers I made for myself, what about the time invested in ordering sorting all the parts no doubt he orders as needed for each kit ordered.
30 hrs per kit would be really reasonable from where I am setting.
I told him as well as many others from day one they never need to justify their cost or their time have something to sell list it people don't like the price of what they offer they wont buy it.
Post up some pics of your past projects we all love that shit also remember 'its not bragging if you can do it' regardless what other might think....
PLEASE consider fabricating arms like these for the Pilot, price them as you see fit YODA has no corner on any market not even sure if he is selling kits any more?