2004 Texas A&m Fsae Update
03-17-2004, 05:12 PM
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Originally Posted by Cheers!' date='Mar 17 2004, 01:47 PM
you guys finish the cost report yet?
i still need to cost the pullrods, rear toe links, and ARB links
we focused all our time on building, next week is for cost reporting. hehe.
oh, and i just got our shocks in. fox vanilla RC, new, but they seem to be way to stiff. $230 a piece from fox, plus dealer markup (which we didn't have to pay), but we still have to cost them at like $400 a piece.
what are yall running for shocks?
03-17-2004, 06:41 PM
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Originally Posted by RX7Aggie' date='Mar 17 2004, 06:12 PM
i've done my part, costing the A-arms, ARB blades, and rockers.
i still need to cost the pullrods, rear toe links, and ARB links
we focused all our time on building, next week is for cost reporting. hehe.
oh, and i just got our shocks in. fox vanilla RC, new, but they seem to be way to stiff. $230 a piece from fox, plus dealer markup (which we didn't have to pay), but we still have to cost them at like $400 a piece.
what are yall running for shocks?
i still need to cost the pullrods, rear toe links, and ARB links
we focused all our time on building, next week is for cost reporting. hehe.
oh, and i just got our shocks in. fox vanilla RC, new, but they seem to be way to stiff. $230 a piece from fox, plus dealer markup (which we didn't have to pay), but we still have to cost them at like $400 a piece.
what are yall running for shocks?
In reality it doesn't matter because u can change the attachment points on your Rocker Plates, it is just the lever arm rule.
03-17-2004, 11:00 PM
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Originally Posted by Cheers!' date='Mar 17 2004, 06:41 PM
Why do u say they are way to stiff? u mean u have too much rebound/compression dampening? or u mean the springs are too stiff?
In reality it doesn't matter because u can change the attachment points on your Rocker Plates, it is just the lever arm rule.
In reality it doesn't matter because u can change the attachment points on your Rocker Plates, it is just the lever arm rule.
our installation ratio is set at 0.70, using the entire movement of the shock. we dont want to lower it because that will decrease the range of adjustment.
i like the CF A-arms
that box is busy, crazy looking. for the rear that is. i hate CNC because IT TAKES SOOO LONG. in house, you ahve to have a programmer for the machine. outhouse, it costs lots of money and/or it gets backed up.
this year, we went welded sheet for most things. whenver we did that in the past (2000, 2001), we did the best, winning 1st in '00 and 5th on '01. both with pullrods. so, we did pullrods again.
what is your body? fiberglass? we did CF last year, but you have to cost it at $100 / lb, and ours weighed like 12 lbs including side pods; $1200 wasted.
this ABS plastic is $15 / sheet, and it takes 3 sheets to do our complete body!!!! plus cost of 15 sec to pull the body out of the oven, turn on the vaccuum, and cool it with rags. our body will be less than $100 this year, hehe.
our diff assembly is cool, it emphasizes direct load paths between it and the engine. weighs like 3 lb less than last year, and we are using Ti halfshafts, hehe.