Stainless steel accessories

[smileymikey]

Hi

I hope you can all give me a bit of feed back? I'm working with a specialist fabricator on a specific after market part at the moment. They usually produce pipework in stainless steel, for the commercial, medical and food production markets, as a result the quality is truly stunning old school craftsmanship. We've got on really well and he has suggested that if I can come up with alternative products he will look at fabricating them for me. Obviously whatever is made needs to be a sensible proposition, in terms of covering its costs and indeed a bit of profit. However we can look at shorter runs than would generally be the case. I can come up with the obvious like de cat pipes and intercooler pipe work. However I'm aware that a lot of cars have specific weak spots that we could produce beautifully made direct replacements for. For instance I know that some of the Triumph six cylinder engines have a water pipe running behind the manifold that corrodes through, which we could reproduce in stainless with new fixings either end. The same with cold air induction kits for specific models etc etc.

No ideas too daft, as I say it just needs to have a market.

Cheers

[Ozzie Osmond]

To keep costs under control (and avoid awkward liability issues) you could tap into the popular "engine dressing" market by making SS covers to clip over cam covers, radiator cap, fluid reservoirs etc. Loads of people like to show off the "shiny bits" in their engine bay and don't want to get into mechanical work to get there. In other words, trim parts for a Fiesta/Corsa have a much wider potential market than a flangewangle divider carefully engineered for a specialist car.

[VinceFox]

I'd love a set of stainless intake pipes on the m3 engine. The row of six that feed into the TBs, like they do on alfa v6 engines. That'd look bloody good.

[davepoth]

VinceFox said:

I'd love a set of stainless intake pipes on the m3 engine. The row of six that feed into the TBs, like they do on alfa v6 engines. That'd look bloody good.

[smileymikey]

davepoth said:

VinceFox said:

I'd love a set of stainless intake pipes on the m3 engine. The row of six that feed into the TBs, like they do on alfa v6 engines. That'd look bloody good.

This is exactly! what I had in mind, we could produce them quite easily. If somebody wanted to go nuts we could do gold plated...loving it please keep the ideas coming

[snuffle]

Ozzie Osmond said:

In other words, trim parts for a Fiesta/Corsa have a much wider potential market than a flangewangle divider carefully engineered for a specialist car.

I think my flanglewangle divider is ok, how do I check it ?

[VinceFox]

smileymikey said:

davepoth said:

VinceFox said:

I'd love a set of stainless intake pipes on the m3 engine. The row of six that feed into the TBs, like they do on alfa v6 engines. That'd look bloody good.

This is exactly! what I had in mind, we could produce them quite easily. If somebody wanted to go nuts we could do gold plated...loving it please keep the ideas coming

No probs. Iirc all six are identical, but the 3.0 and 3.2 are very slightly different. Set of them sat looking all polished and shiny on an m3 engine would look very cool indeed.