I have a cousin that is doing a few prototypes on a cnc machine at his custom av fab shop. Not really sure what the cost would be in production. He just likes the car and wanted to make something for it. Since he builds parts for the X-craft in the same shop ... I figure he knows what he's doing :lol
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Could be interesting
Seemed the biggest draw back when we discussed a CNC type of item was that the surfaces would probably not be a good as we would like - chances for ridges etc, similar to what is on the CNC a-arms.
I would imagine that a higher level of finishing could then take place, but as soon as anyone touches them, the price goes up too much.
I'm wondering what the weight of the Ford (plastic) part is and what the weight of an aluminium part is. Would this (potentially heavier) part be subject to movement on our moderately stiff cars? Would this jiggling about damage paintwork in hard to reach areas?
Just a thought as you're in design mode!
That has been brought up as well as expansion from heat, etc. A gasket could be apprpriate, but each thing adds new potential problems.
I think we'll find out how stuff is once it is tried. So many things look good, but until the real world comes into play, you don't really know what will happen. Real world is what is happening now to the vents.
We know that the plastic vents are not a good option for some or many (some guys still don't seem to have any warpage - don't know the common element yet), and don't know if the aluminum will be better in the long run, but doesn't seem that they can be worse than the plastic.
We should still probably do a thread about warping info - i.e, warped or not, and year, exhaust, location, miles, transaxle cooler, pulley / tune / other, etc. See if there is anything that jumps out.
I am still wondering if the transaxle cooler isn't restricting the air flow too much.
Don't know, but what the heck, I'll start that thread since the Forum has the data base of guys to help solve the problem.
