Nice drawing.
This thread still alive!?! Christ!!
Come on steve, we all know this thread will still be going on when Alfie is 22! lol.
is that what all the fuss is about? this part?
something to think about
almost identical to the one in this thread, ive seen it working and its like that, a la touring car.
its not gonna happen now though, unless someone proves me wrong, matt put effort in/RST did too, but it was angelworks who were meant to push the plug into the socket so to speak... and well, maybe 2020
You could sign the waiting list.
'Waiting' being the operative word. lol.
When will people on here learn lol
Looks like the 197 ITB manifold that GDI/OMEX did?
Its never going to happen.
You need two things to get this up and running. Business brain and intelligent brain.
Sadly, the former is severely missing. Here we have a forum of 13,000 members. Granted not all drive a 172/182 but lets assume the majority do....
If I was intelligent enough to come up with something like this, i'd make sure that it would be at the forefront of my life. There is a MASSIVE MASSIVE earning potential here but nobody seems to have the nouse to sort it out.
It won't happen. Guaranteed.
Not everyone is as learned as you Jon, give them time
Why charge so much then? Just break it down in CAD program so it can be put together by monkeys. Gas flow it on a program and see if it works. Make one up for f**k all. Test it, RR it then sell it. Charge £200 and sell 100s...I think you are completely overestimating how many people would buy something like this. Not many people will spend the £1500 or so on their engine in one hit, and although there are some on here who will say they would buy it just look at how many group buys don't happen when it comes to "pay up" time.
David.
Why charge so much then? Just break it down in CAD program so it can be put together by monkeys. Gas flow it on a program and see if it works. Make one up for f**k all. Test it, RR it then sell it. Charge £200 and sell 100s...
Send me a free cad program, inlet port sizes and bolt spacing and ill give it a shot...
Cheeky edit
I cant remember where i got the pic, i remember pm'ing icarus as it was a website i recognised being assisiated with him. Its a genuine picture of the super 2000 inlet
I don't mind drawing models up on 3D CAD and detailing manufacturing drawings for free*
*Discount on final product please
lol, sadly not. Dont want to say I told you so, but wherever Ben goes, failure follows. It wouldn't be so bad if he didn't leave so many people out of pocket, but when you cant even do a simple ITB install without it turning into a several year fiasco what hope in hell does something even remotely complex stand?
Said for years, comes over as a charming young man, gets your money, then you eventually realise (or not as in most cases) how dishonest he is and you never hear from him again. Was nice to see my custom pulleys for my old car re-sold again and fitted to someone else's motor though... did I get my money back? The list of people he's screwed over grows by the day, so no my stance is "anyone stupid enough to hand over money to him deserves it, they have been warned a plenty".
Don't know where the hype comes from, the kid cant even complete a simple engine build without it blowing up.
I'm a bit gutted this never came to fruition.
I'd even convinced the missus to let me spend the money too
Not everyone is as learned as you Jon, give them time
That's a pit of a S2000 inlet but not the S2000 style inlet manifold people are talking about here.
The final version was completely straight with a large plenum box. Essentialy ITB's without the butterflies. Had a custom fuel rail, injector bosses etc. etc. very pretty bit of it and worked well.
I really hope Ben does something with this as I contributed many, many hours and several thousand quid to get the prototypes done. However I'd just like to say again my involvement in this ended quite a while back now so I can't say what stage it's at or if it will happen. Last time I do a deal on a % of profits basis though!!!