Million Dollar Skunksworks Kirkham

[Lew Ledyard]

As long as your hourly rates are less than mine!

[David Kirkham]

Let's see,

Just 1 hour/wheel?

David

[Lew Ledyard]

Even at my rate, I would be happy to cover that.

Actually, anyone want to make a charity challenge out of this? Some percentage toward R&D, some percentage toward a worthy charity. (No, not the Romney in 2008 campaign.....)

[David Kirkham]

If we can get 10 sets committed:

I'll throw in the programming of the wheels.

We still have to come up with.

Digitizing the wheel.

Tweaking the digitized wheel in Solidworks--probably $1000

Machine time (I will have to think about how much that will cost and I probably won't know until we have it programmed and modeled.

material costs--depend on the size of the rim. Big wide rims are expensive billets.

shipping to your door--probably $25-$35/rim in the US.

Another thing, we could probably make this babies a TON cheaper if we use wheel hats and just billet the centers. But if you guys want billet everything, then what the hay, I'll throw in the programming for either entire billet or just the billet centers.

David

[avanti-176]

Originally Posted by David Kirkham

If we can get 10 sets committed:

I'll throw in the programming of the wheels.

We still have to come up with.

Digitizing the wheel.

Tweaking the digitized wheel in Solidworks--probably $1000

Machine time (I will have to think about how much that will cost and I probably won't know until we have it programmed and modeled.

material costs--depend on the size of the rim. Big wide rims are expensive billets.

shipping to your door--probably $25-$35/rim in the US.

Another thing, we could probably make this babies a TON cheaper if we use wheel hats and just billet the centers. But if you guys want billet everything, then what the hay, I'll throw in the programming for either entire billet or just the billet centers.

David

I would kill for Sunburst's.... Hats and centers would be fine by me...Hell, I will send you my compomotives and you can make sunburst centers to interchange with the fia centers that are in there. I know there are a bunch of Compomotives out there that people may be willing to retrofit given the chance.

Aside from the Sunbursts I have to say...as a mechanical engineer , I am continually stunned and appalled at what fine work you and your brothers do out there. That Chassis has been haunting my dreams for days now. Bravo!!

Dan

[Lew Ledyard]

What is a wheel hat/billet center combo?

Would they be lighter/stronger than the Trigo cast aluminum wheels? What type of wheel (Cobra II, Sunburst, FIA)?

What size? (Personally, I like 15 X as much as can fit)

Not too bling?

Would they keep spinning when the car stopped at a light?

I would be in for a set of 15" wheels, plus an additional $2,000 toward R&D on the thought that if enough were ever sold I could get the R&D $ back or give it to charity. (Maybe we could help unwed mothers get their start, or put it toward some other eleemosynary endeavour.)