Unlimited access to a machine shop-what do i make?

[thebutcher37]

5 lug hubs

ding!

[ak-]

5 lug hubs

[Pdxseth]

A bracket to put e30 seats in an e28


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[Vivek]

Make me a shift knob :)

[thebutcher37]

also, what do you mean by tapping the front struts?

Kinda like this.

http://www.vorshlag.com/forums/showthread.php?t=8044

[dothadance]

And since you can heat treat, make a tool for tapping the front struts. So if you want to cut them shorter, you don't have to section the housing. :)

this is actually a pretty wicked idea. the top of our strut tubes/housings whatever are threaded for a collar to screw into. most people cut ~2 inches out of the middle of the tube and reweld it when they get coilovers. this you could just cut the top and thread the inside.

[Rowleym]

Damn, that is actually a pretty impressive shop. The fact that you have the means to make a jig for an automated welding set up is amazing. You could make motor mounts, pre-welded camber caster adjusted sub frames, pre-welded struts for m3 links and coil-overs, control arms, strut bars, chassis braces, and so on.

And since you can heat treat, make a tool for tapping the front struts. So if you want to cut them shorter, you don't have to section the housing. :)

well this just made me excited. Im really thinking about making some control arms. Should i simply make them based on the stock specs but with a lighter steel heat treat them? soooo many ideas going through my head. if anyone wants anything made, just give me the specs so i can have it made. I pretty much have no idea what to do. also, what do you mean by tapping the front struts?

[pantelones]

. If you want to check it out, its rowleytool.com

Damn, that is actually a pretty impressive shop. The fact that you have the means to make a jig for an automated welding set up is amazing. You could make motor mounts, pre-welded camber caster adjusted sub frames, pre-welded struts for m3 links and coil-overs, control arms, strut bars, chassis braces, and so on.

And since you can heat treat, make a tool for tapping the front struts. So if you want to cut them shorter, you don't have to section the housing. :)

[nando]

How about a cooling system that won't crumble under an orphan's tears?

Like the stock e30?

[m3fuz]

How about a cooling system that won't crumble under an orphan's tears?

[burkey001]

I agree with you Frankie, however the engineering principal of single shear versus double shear is hardly something that Rob from UUC came up with.
You could refer to the 1934 edition of 'The Engineers Handbook' and see a chapter on shear...

To the OP, make something to do with brakes.
Lots of big brake kits have big wide calipers. this means you have to run either a super custom wheel or heaps of spacers. Why not design a rotor hat with 20mm of extra material that 'has' to be there rather than a skinny hat that you have to run with spacers.

[frankie591]

Instead of ripping off a UUC design that they put a lot of effort and R&D to develop for the community, why don't you think of something original that you can produce. If everybody and their brother starts copying designs, then companies like UUC and Treehouse etc. will stop developing parts for our cars. I have no problem with making a dssr similar to UUC's design for your own car, but mass producing a blatant copy is pretty sad.

[Farbin Kaiber]

why is this?

Because they find it to be a Holy Grail project, then research and find it cost prohibitive, and find factory solutions to be more cost effective. I'm not saying someday someone won't find a method, just that it hasn't panned out yet.

[chance]

I plan on making a dssr and floor mount shifter.

You could also try engraving a valve cover. A member on here makes some really nice ones.

[Rowleym]

why is this?