Eddie Marine...this is a new low

[wsuwrhr]

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

[superdave013]

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

[Biglue]

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??

[wsuwrhr]

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

[wsuwrhr]

Do they sell enough of these to justify the casting tooling costs??
Tooling cost for a part like that isn't that bad.
Brian

[Biglue]

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.

[Dave C]

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.

[wsuwrhr]

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

[RiverDave]

True........
How'd the mini-Bimmer go over? Nephew dig it??
It's all he talks about.. Thanks again for that!!
RD

[RiverDave]

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