IN for clearance parts.

 

I would rather have another clean ass car then spent the retarded amount of money on parts j/k! bwahaha

 

The real problem is that even if you think you're buying real parts, you still could be buying Chinese counterfeits. Cheap design imitations are one thing, blatant counterfeits are another. China is ruining the performance aftermarket, and trafficking their goods through the middle east to receive counterfeit packaging/labeling isn't doing any good either. No one wants to buy expensive, well made parts if they don't know whether they're paying for poor quality fakes instead.. Once you ruin consumer confidence its over.

 

I want to live in your dream world. How many parts can you actually make yourself?

You're not sticking anything to the man if making your own parts involves buying tools, equipment, raw materials, etc. The man is sticking it to you.

Doing something because you like it is one thing, but don't fool yourself into thinking you're saving money or something like that.

Take those hours you spend making something (that you can already buy for your car) and waste them at your job instead. You'll make a lot more per hour than you can save doing fabrication. If that isn't true, you should either get a different job, or start selling your fabricated parts to other people. There are exceptions to that of course for certain parts, but there won't be many. Suspension braces and simple parts like that are one example, but it's still hard to argue with a part that costs $200 to buy when faced with design time, raw materials, fabrication time, and finishing costs (and all of the associated equipment for all of that).
When I was making carbon parts, I wouldn't even touch making a part that was already in production; it's not realistic to compete with mass production and volume pricing (of the parts and of the raw materials used to make them), and not many people want to pay for extra quality when they can get a lower quality mass produced part for cheaper. Welcome to the Chinese economy.

 

They are going bankrupt, not disappearing...edelbrock did the same thing not too long ago

 

I agree 100%

 

My design time, raw materials, fabrication time, finishing costs and equipment are easy and pretty cheap because everything i do is at work. So in fact, I get paid to do it. I agree with you though. One couldn't compare to a mass production company. It wouldn't be practical. As far as sticking it to the man and saving yourself some money, I'm talking about alternative options to whatever your looking to do instead of looking so much for what everyone else has. Some of my recent money savers were an aluminum front adjustable strut bar with holes for adjusting shocks, aluminum battery relocation box for optima, wheel alignment tool, sub box for l7 kicker, radio console for toyota and in the process of working on a b-pillar to c-pillar bar that will clear headrests. However, some of those would not be practical without having the cheap resources.

 

Well shit guess they better come down on the greddy sp2 for a eg hatch cause i want one haha

 

That's suprising, as they opened a new(ish) warehouse in old bridge, NJ just a few years ago.. 2yrs ago i think

 

/cry