Wishbone suspension bolt on kit - Page 9

**volkdent** · #**121** May 5th 2005, 22:51

Supers are a simple matter of adding 944 parts to get pretty good handling. I think someone is making new lower control arms.

Jason

**volkdent** · #**122** May 6th 2005, 20:26

Picked up the laser cut and press brake parts today. $660 and 24.5 pounds. I will be tinkering with the parts this weekend, then off to Walt on Monday to start getting it all together!

Jason

Mikey · #**123** May 6th 2005, 21:54

Great!

Pictures!

DORIGTT · #**124** May 7th 2005, 01:40

Pictures Man! Pictures!

**volkdent** · #**125** May 9th 2005, 20:02

Someone mentioned pictures? Don't get too excited, these are just the laser cut parts. Fab pictures to come soon, as all the parts are over at Walt's Custom Services now to start fabrication.

Jason

**volkdent** · #**126** May 11th 2005, 14:02

Well, in one day Walt did all this, so this thing should be done way faster than I thought!

Jason

tom'72 · #**127** May 11th 2005, 16:37

Damn, that thing's looking pretty sweet

hope it drives as good as it looks

starmember · #**128** May 11th 2005, 16:58

nice work.

What expences have you made so far if i may ask. :bowdown:

**volkdent** · #**129** May 12th 2005, 01:08

Costs:
Design-$1000+
Parts- $700+
Fab- $? still in progress

Having the world's only bolt-on race-designed double-wishbone Type I-

Priceless!

I havn't really been keeping an eye on costs, as it really doesn't matter to me, I just have to get it done! When it's done I'll tally up the actual costs of the final product. Up to this time, I've purchased $100s more of parts, but they've not ended up being used.

Jason

DORIGTT · #**130** May 12th 2005, 07:20

OH MAN!

The goodies are comin', the goodies are comin'

Nice work! The pictures look great!

Can't wait for the test results and to use my 90% off any purchase coupon that Ferdinand Porsche gave me to buy this set-up.

tom'72 · #**131** May 12th 2005, 07:34

Maybe everyone that's interested in purchasing this setup should post here so volkdent has an idea of how much he could sell and calculate a price.
I definetely am very interested in the beauty

danielzink · #**132** May 12th 2005, 19:58

Count me in as interested also.

Dan

**volkdent** · #**133** May 12th 2005, 20:20

I have the part in the picture now. I'm going to try it in to make sure everything is as it should be. Just to keep you update on how much you piggybank might be emptied, the ? in the post above is currently running $1600, and I'm about half way done with the fabrication! No arms yet, and they'll take alot of time. I expect it will run at least $2500 for fabrication, probably more.

I think the version that I will end up selling you guys will be a lot simpler and less time consuming to make, so should be a lot less expensive. There are a lot of things that went into the design that are nice, but just so time consuming(read costly) to fabricate that it is ridiculous. For example, I had captive nuts machined to fit into the back of the rear plate, where regular nuts could be used, and the adjusters for camber are very machining intensive, where they could be a simpler design. I'll expect the final product to be somewhere around $3000 for sale, but there will still be some parts that will need to be sourced by the purchaser, for example the universal joints for the steering.

I'll take some pics of the try in.

Jason

tom'72 · #**134** May 13th 2005, 04:04

Maybe this was mentioned previously but shouldn't you get a patent on that design to protect all your work and the investment?

zen · #**135** May 13th 2005, 08:02

VERY nice work. looking forward to seeing and hearing more about it. especially as it gets some road time. love seeing people push the boudaries.

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