Robert Linton

Do not know who else is on the list. As for Cartridge, we would not be appropriate.

Juan Lopez

Dear Bob,

Another beautiful piece, and some very interesting reading on the further developments of Humty Dumpty. Not so good to hear that you have been ill though, yet good that you are doing better!

Please keep us all posted on the further developments. Can't imagine what you will come up with next time......

Kind personal regards ! Juan Lopez from Florida

Guns951

Seth email sent.

JWERION

Bob, Do you have a similar carbon intake for the 993 based 3.8 ltr. RSR motors? If not can you make one?

mklaskin

Or 2? Butterfly valve please...

Very nice work.

Robert Linton

Do not make anything for the 993 or, for that matter, for aftermarket use. Further, the cost of doing this as other than basically rather poor decoration (i.e., a copy of existing pieces or an untested, let alone proven, experiment) would be prohibitive for two units. Assuming CAD and plenum design engineering existed, engineering the piece itself and tools (patterns, molds, etc.) could easily be $20,000 and the parts would be several thousand dollars each, again, assuming a small number. If, e.g., 100 plus were to be made, methods could be employed which would reduce the price per part (though the tool might be even more costly). On the other hand, if neither a proper engineering design nor CAD existed, the cost for design and tooling could be increased severalfold (unless, again, one simply wanted a virtually useless but decorative copy of an original part -- and, even then, there is a quantum quality leap from a piece using the original to make a mold and a properly scanned and surfaced effort from which CAD is generated and metal tools are made).

P.S. There can be many reasons why, for instance, one carbon fiber hood can cost $800 and another $2800. Yes, one could just be a rip but it could also be a part made by scanning and surfacing and using five axis milling machines to make metal tools from several hundred pound blocks of metal to produce a piece that, upon close inspection, is as far away from the less expensive piece as an Armani suit is from a $50 version.

Guns951

Robert, I forgot to add that you have a beautiful intake there, and I did not mean to hijack the thread in any way.

John H

I think your avatar hi jacked the threads.

Really nice intake. If you don't mind, how did you get into that line of work? I am always interested in how people find their way into something that seems so interesting and into what I would think would be a fairly small job market as opposed to a lawyer, teacher or firefighter.

Robert Linton

Too long a story.

Julian Allen

Bob,
Another beautiful piece, at least as nice in appearance as in function.
Glad to hear that you are continuing to be on the mend.
Still looking forward to seeing Humpty Dumpty!