Zen Hood Seal Kits... Feeler
The Group buy is here: http://www.r3vlimited.com/board/showthread.php?t=109023
Entwicklung Dreißig Zen II E30 HOOD SEALS are constructed in the USA from 100% High performance EPDM rubber. The seals fit between the hood and the fender. This seal completely covers / seals the space between the hood and the fender for better aerodynamics.
Here are some larger images
The material is made specifically for our application. The "off the shelf" stuff we originaly tried distorted (we think because of heat) and did not stand up when exposed to sunlight. We contacted the maker with specifications provided to us by another firm who made products of similar material however did not have the tooling to produce these.
All was well for a while but the suplier doesn't really want to make such small runs and has increased the price by more than 3 times over the past couple of years.
The Group buy is here: http://www.r3vlimited.com/board/showthread.php?t=109023
The question being...Should we continue to offer these?
The cost to have these produced has gone through the roof (I guess like everthing else) and It has come to the point where I don't think we can offer them on the general market.
The least we can sell them for (without loosing money) is now is $38.
We have it made in small runs of specilally formulated EDPM in order to suit the conditions IE heat, UV, oil resistance etc. the reason being was that the OE product would harden and cause hood closing issues and also the rubber would degenerate rapidly.
The cost to have these produced has gone through the roof (I guess like everthing else) and It has come to the point where I don't think we can offer them on the general market.
The least we can sell them for (without loosing money) is now is $38.
We have it made in small runs of specilally formulated EDPM in order to suit the conditions IE heat, UV, oil resistance etc. the reason being was that the OE product would harden and cause hood closing issues and also the rubber would degenerate rapidly.
Entwicklung Dreißig Zen II E30 HOOD SEALS are constructed in the USA from 100% High performance EPDM rubber. The seals fit between the hood and the fender. This seal completely covers / seals the space between the hood and the fender for better aerodynamics.
Here are some larger images
The material is made specifically for our application. The "off the shelf" stuff we originaly tried distorted (we think because of heat) and did not stand up when exposed to sunlight. We contacted the maker with specifications provided to us by another firm who made products of similar material however did not have the tooling to produce these.
All was well for a while but the suplier doesn't really want to make such small runs and has increased the price by more than 3 times over the past couple of years.
The Group buy is here: http://www.r3vlimited.com/board/showthread.php?t=109023
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