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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: 92CXyD on December 30, 2009, 05:25:46 PM
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an interesting article:
part 1)
http://www.motoiq.com/MagazineArticles/tabid/59/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/1390/Best-Engineered-Lemons-3--The-Angry-Hamster-Z600.aspx (http://www.motoiq.com/MagazineArticles/tabid/59/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/1390/Best-Engineered-Lemons-3--The-Angry-Hamster-Z600.aspx)
part 2)
http://www.motoiq.com/MagazineArticles/tabid/59/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/1401/Best-Engineered-Lemons-3--The-Angry-Hamster-PART-II.aspx (http://www.motoiq.com/MagazineArticles/tabid/59/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/1401/Best-Engineered-Lemons-3--The-Angry-Hamster-PART-II.aspx)
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Lol, that reminds me of the old "tortoise and the hare".
I think they're stretching the rules with all that free machining. They should account for cnc fab work to make it easier for others w/o a fully equiped machine shop in their garden shed...
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Lol, that reminds me of the old "tortoise and the hare".
I think they're stretching the rules with all that free machining. They should account for cnc fab work to make it easier for others w/o a fully equiped machine shop in their garden shed...
I was wondering about that too. That looks like cost hell of a lot more than $449 to build. ;D
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Yeah there kinda cheating the others who don't have $50k in tooling/cnc's to just custom build a gear box.
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The money thing is bullshit. The majority of cars in the Grassroots motorsports builds and all those other competitions could never be built for the money they say. Its not even the money in tooling for the machining but the actual material itself.
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Thats more than $12.00 in round stock. They shouldn't count material prices of things you have laying around your shop. Its easy to cut a piece of material you have in stock to the exact length you need, machine it then justify the price based on scrap rates. In real life, you need to go to a scrap yard, route through junk for an hour to find the diameter you need, then buy the whole length and your over $12.00
For the people who don't buy raw material often, places usually charge you more for saw cutting the material to the length you need than it would be for the whole bar. A 6x4x8 inch piece of 6061 Aluminum actually cost more than buying a full 5 foot length of it becuase the metal suppliers just want to sell the material and not cut it.
Since you can can resell parts for these cars to recoup costs does that mean you can buy full lenths of material, machine parts from it and use that money to put into the car?
Those contests are neat but the rules are bullshit
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yeah thats another good point, same thing at the local steel wholesalers, you buy 20 or 25' sticks of anything. nothing shorter or it is way expensive.
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mysterious blue springs my ass
shit like this makes me not want to do the lemons. it looks so fun and i'm pretty sure i could put a z6 together with a 14b for less than 500
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I like the Tokico blue shocks that weren't mentioned.....
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I wonder if that thing meets the track-hoe next lemons.
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yeah that car isn't anywhere near 500 bucks even with the selling shit off the bike and the car. It probably has 400 dollars worth of tires on it.
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yeah that car isn't anywhere near 500 bucks even with the selling shit off the bike and the car. It probably has 400 dollars worth of tires on it.
wheels and tires are 'safety' items in lemons
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hax.