Want anything made?

**Mint_Sauce** · 22-12-2003, 22:32

My flatmate is a proper machinist type dude, he has access to amazing machines that can make virtually anything. Anyway, I was chatting to him the other day and he said he'd be up for making a few bits in his lunch hours to sell on. If there's anything people need in bulk (5+ items) or anything which they'd like which costs a lot in the shops, he can most likely make it and at a far higher quality too for less wonga! Anyone got any ideas??

ummm, should this be in the trader bit? I've got no idea? When I say 5+ items I mean i'd need 5+ different SXOC people wanting the same bit.

**marty_t3** · 22-12-2003, 22:52

Seat mounting brackets

**Mint_Sauce** · 22-12-2003, 22:57

Yeah? Supply the measurments and how much you want to pay and i'll ask him

**marty_t3** · 23-12-2003, 07:05

I'll add that to my xmas project list

**RazMan** · 23-12-2003, 07:37

How about a cold air box for the S13? I am sure that several other people will want one

**archenemy.co.uk** · 23-12-2003, 08:11

Quality wheel spacers

**Pete C** · 23-12-2003, 08:19

Originally posted by Mono Phil
Quality wheel spacers

Yep, some 10mm thick ones please - PCD is 114.3mm (x4 for the S13, x5 for the S14), studs are M12, so make the holes 13mm across...

...got all that?

**alexjj** · 23-12-2003, 08:19

A bag of £50 notes please...

Nah really how about an aluminium dash facade.. You know the sort of thing that goes for about 90 in Ripspeed. Makes the interior look a bit more up to date and shiny

Say, from the gearbox area, right up to the air vents maybe..

Wonder how much that would be? s14a and s13?

**Mint_Sauce** · 23-12-2003, 08:29

Not sure how much but not a lot of cash, he made a gearknob the other day, and a mighty fine one it was too! He mentioned making me an ultra light and strong flywheel and a strut brace. Think i'll have to badger him to make them

Aluminium dash facade should be very easy and quick for him too make, if there's enough interest i'll ask him.

Wheel spacers should be a doddle!

**Saunders** · 23-12-2003, 08:53

Just thought i mention that some one on here already makes the alloy bits from the gear gator bit up to the fan and it looks

Strut brace sound good what you reckon a price on that would be???

**Saunders** · 23-12-2003, 08:55

Allso what about the oil filler cap but a really funnky one??

**bren** · 23-12-2003, 08:59

Originally posted by Mint_Sauce
Not sure how much but not a lot of cash, he made a gearknob the other day, and a mighty fine one it was too! He mentioned making me an ultra light and strong flywheel and a strut brace. Think i'll have to badger him to make them Aluminium dash facade should be very easy and quick for him too make, if there's enough interest i'll ask him. Wheel spacers should be a doddle!

I wouldnt make a flywheel. If it breaks then youll have the ring gear spinning at upto 7k rpm acting very much like a band saw and if it flies upwards then itll cut straight through the transmission tunnel along with anything else in its way, i.e. legs, tosos, arms, heads etc

**archenemy.co.uk** · 23-12-2003, 09:01

Originally posted by pimpdaddy
Just thought i mention that some one on here already makes the alloy bits from the gear gator bit up to the fan and it looks

200sxer I think

**Johnny** · 23-12-2003, 09:04

Originally posted by Pete C

Yep, some 10mm thick ones please - PCD is 114.3mm (x4 for the S13, x5 for the S14), studs are M12, so make the holes 13mm across...

...got all that?

My cash is on the table for 4 x s14 spacers

**bren** · 23-12-2003, 09:12

Youll need longer studs with the spacers if theyre more than 5mm thick. Why do you think no one else has made any?

**Mint_Sauce** · 23-12-2003, 09:18

Originally posted by bren
I wouldnt make a flywheel. If it breaks then youll have the ring gear spinning at upto 7k rpm acting very much like a band saw and if it flies upwards then itll cut straight through the transmission tunnel along with anything else in its way, i.e. legs, tosos, arms, heads etc

Sounds painfull, maybe i'll give that a miss then. As much as I trust his workmanship I need my legs to work the pedals. If fact the other day he was making a fighter jet engine casing and managed to get a bolt stuck, cost them over £10,000 as he had to chuck the whole thing.

**Pete C** · 23-12-2003, 09:18

Originally posted by bren
Youll need longer studs with the spacers if theyre more than 5mm thick.

I've got longer studs already thanks

The spacers I've got at the moment however, are really crap, and I think they're the cause of the wheel wobble I'm getting

**Saunders** · 23-12-2003, 09:32

fighter jet casing!!!!! he must be pretty talented and he must be on some serious wedge!!! lucky feeker

**archenemy.co.uk** · 23-12-2003, 09:33

Originally posted by bren
Youll need longer studs with the spacers if theyre more than 5mm thick. Why do you think no one else has made any?

I'm thinking about the kind you attach to your hubs and they have their own studs.

Or is it best to put longer studs on the car (don't know if thats possible) then slip the spacer over the studs before putting the wheel on.

Think I need some 10 / 15mm thick, to take my 7.5" wheels with 35mm offset back to around 25 / 20mm offset

**bren** · 23-12-2003, 09:37

Pete,

Ah, k

Phil,

Longer studs are fine for upto 20mm spacers. Over that you need the spacers with their own studs in them. But can you imagine what it would cost to machine up 25mm spacers, special nuts to hold the spacer to the hub and then studs to go through the spacer to bolt the wheel to?

H&R 25mm kits are only 80 quid ish.

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