| Author | Message | ||
     Brian Stolpa (Oilleak) New Member Username: Oilleak Post Number: 6 Registered: 01-2004 |
I'm a machinist and have made some spring spacers for classic/Disco I, I'm thinking of making a run of Disco II spacers, is there anybody interested in this, if there is enough people i will do it, if you want to see the style you can see pics of my old classic at www.homepage.mac.com/bwstolpa you can see the spacers in some of the pics, if you have any questions please email me direct at [email protected], as I rarely get onto these pages anymore. thanks brian | ||
| Craig Kobayashi (Koby) Dweb Lounge Member Username: Koby Post Number: 1059 Registered: 02-2002 |
Price? Location? | ||
| Matt Anderson (Disco01) Member Username: Disco01 Post Number: 238 Registered: 10-2003 |
Craig, I will chime in here. I talked to him last night and he was thinking around $300. I think he is from N. Carolina. | ||
| Alan Bates (Alanb) Senior Member Username: Alanb Post Number: 456 Registered: 07-2002 |
$300 for spacers! What a deal! | ||
| Matt Anderson (Disco01) Member Username: Disco01 Post Number: 241 Registered: 10-2003 |
Alan, I cant tell whether you are being sarcastic or not, but I personally thought that was expensive, esp. when you can get them from EE for $65 a pair. | ||
| Alan Bates (Alanb) Senior Member Username: Alanb Post Number: 457 Registered: 07-2002 |
You can buy them from EE, rovertym, etc. for much much less or just make some yourself for $10. Not rocket science, $300 for spacers is insane, I just hate it when people post crap like that thinking we are that stupid and wasting dweb's space. You could even buy 4 new springs for that price. Now if there were gold or chrome plated I might then be interested. http://www.discoweb.org/ome3/spacer.htm | ||
| Brian Stolpa (Oilleak) New Member Username: Oilleak Post Number: 7 Registered: 01-2004 |
FYI check your prices, suspensionspacers at rovertym for the low cost fronts $160 plus the rear $150 you do the math, $310 plus the fact he doestn't have any listed for DII's yet, if you don't want them i don't really care but plenty of people have asked me for these after seeing my classic spacers, and the more people that want them the cheaper they will be | ||
| Matt Anderson (Disco01) Member Username: Disco01 Post Number: 244 Registered: 10-2003 |
Haha, gold plated spacers.....that is some bling bling. | ||
| Brian Stolpa (Oilleak) New Member Username: Oilleak Post Number: 8 Registered: 01-2004 |
a set of 2 inch spacers would cost $285 for 4, material costsmoney that's why there more, you want a two inch lift out of EE's spacer's you need to buy 8 to acomplish that at 60 for two,you need two buy 4 sets 60X4=240, mine aren't much more and for the extra quality being CNC machined to match the spring perches shape, so it's not just a little block you stick in there, seems pretty fair to me | ||
| Brian Stolpa (Oilleak) New Member Username: Oilleak Post Number: 9 Registered: 01-2004 |
also for anyone interested we can probaly make them out of steel intsead of aluminum, and be cheaper than EE's price | ||
| Alan Bates (Alanb) Senior Member Username: Alanb Post Number: 458 Registered: 07-2002 |
Onlinemetals.com Aluminum 6061-T6 Bare 4" Extruded Round Cut to 2" 4@ $12.80 Cut Fee $3.00 Total $54.20 Drill a couple of holes: 1/2 hour Gold Plating, priceless | ||
| Peter W. Pfeifer (Pwp) New Member Username: Pwp Post Number: 33 Registered: 10-2002 |
Alan......Do you except Discover card ?? Dang , I knew I shouldn't have cut up my Visa ! Peter | ||
| Peter W. Pfeifer (Pwp) New Member Username: Pwp Post Number: 34 Registered: 10-2002 |
All joking aside. If you buy 4" Dia alum cut to 2", drill a couple holes for a half hour. You'll have exactly that, a "hack job". Definately cheaper than than $300. and they probably will work just fine, unless your anal about perpendicularity and overall height all matching within .005". But give him a break, he is selling a service, they are machined , not saw cut alum pucks. Also 4" dia cut to 2" @ $12.80 thats kinda high, I'll sell them to you for $10.00 Peter | ||
| Matt Anderson (Disco01) Member Username: Disco01 Post Number: 247 Registered: 10-2003 |
If you compare Brians design and quality to the Rovertym ones I think his price is fair. Granted you can get them cheaper, and as he said, he can make them cheaper, but I think he wants to make some quality ones. Maybe it is overkill, I dont know, but for what he is making I think it is fair. Lets cut him some slack. Matt | ||
| Aro and Joe (Deepdoo) Member Username: Deepdoo Post Number: 117 Registered: 08-2003 |
sorry dude, but i think the price is high too. i source products and am currently waiting for a set of spacers, 2" lift for D1 and expect the price to be $200 for a full set including hardware. these spacers do have a shoulder for spring centering just like RTE and are not just a flat aluminum disc. 6" diameter 7075 CNC cut, black anodized, with steel plate for upper shock mounting included, as well as CAD plated grade 8 hardware. RTE is overpriced and so is $300. he is right about one thing, I dont have the dims for a D2 either,but if the diameter is 4", the price should be cheaper. is there a call for other materials, like stainless? stainless may actually be cheaper. | ||
| James Sanzone (Albert) Member Username: Albert Post Number: 48 Registered: 10-2003 |
Seems like springs would be cheaper and better? |
