New Idea!

[Addissimo]

Update:

Today was my day off- the entirety of it was spent between my desk, kinkos, and under my car.

My latest rendition should be perfect, buuuttt its too dark to find out. We'll see in the morning.

Assuming the angles line up, i'll send it off to Brew to see if the angles line up at the same time (my tranny is out of my car right now.)

I've been playing with the design alot- I'd feel alot better if we could get longer bolts to mount the brace to the car, this way I can make the mounting arms thicker- I'll check out hardware in the next couple of days to see what I can find.



I am going to suggest we go this route:

Drill holes and tap them to screw the tranny mounts into the brace. This will allow the brace to be stronger, and make installation easier (only requires two nuts to be used.

I'm working on a urethane mount group buy with IE- hopefully we can get some decent prices.

The current prices for the brace are looking like:

Quantity of 5: $100 shipped each
Quantity of 10: $85 shipped each

Emachineshop's pricing system is a little screwie- I just changed my quantity from 10 to 7 and back to 10, and the price went down $2/each. It'll be nice to see the final design and get a price locked down.

Anyway- hopefully we'll have a "for sure" design shortly.

-Addis

[christoble]

what do you think the time frame is for getting these completed. i need one asap.
thanks, chris

[Addissimo]

not asap unfortunately- build time is 25 business days from the time i submit the design.

It depends how long it takes Brew and I to get it done.

at a quantity of 10- it'll cost an extra $5 each to get them done in 20 business days... which isn't bad... but you're still at least a month out.

-Addis

[joshh]

It's at least the same for the Urethane mounts.

[Addissimo]

It's at least the same for the Urethane mounts.

wait...
what?

[joshh]

Sorry, I meant the Motor mounts. He's just started on them.

[JPL]

i will take one. even though my swap is a very long time from now

[02stu]

Addissimo, hows the mount going. I have my engine and tranny in, so I could check the fit if you want.

[christoble]

any updates?

[Kilomph]

I'm FOR SURE in on this. If anybody has some extra cash, it'd probably be smart to order a couple extra, M/S 50/52 swaps will be going on forever, so these will always be in demand. Plus i'd get a better deal ;)

[02stu]

I'm still down for ordering the mount, so thats two of us. Kilomph how many were you thinking of ordering? Addissimo is probley still in, I'll pm him about it. We still need to confirm that his design will work.

[Kilomph]

If I had spare money, i'd buy a couple, but i'm broke, so just 1. Once he has tested it, and it works out, we could easily get 10+.

Any idea on cost if we got 15-20?

[SchnellerVert]

Have you contacted Peter McHenry? maybe since he does these he will sell the tranny mount to you.

[Addissimo]

with 20 they go down to $61 each shipped to me.

I've been reallly busy as of late, so I haven't been able to get even to the post office to mail the template to stu.

The plus to this: I've been making alot of money, and the next month or so, I'll be making even more, so I'll probably be able to buy 10 myself, just to have for when people need/want them.

Once you get above 15 pieces, the price doesnt change all that much with the quantity you order. 20 pieces is $61, 40 pieces is $55, while 15 pieces is $65... not a big price difference. If we can get around 8-9 people in on this, i'll get them for around 63-64 (after I buy 11 [1 for me, 10 for stock])

I don't forsee this happening before the new year though. maybe mid jan.

What does everybody think?

-Addis

[Beej '86 325es]

I'm down man. Thanks for doing all of the research on this. Your E30 community is very grateful. :)