# I see your point, but -->

Posted by Matt (93SE) on September 27, 2003 at 10:40:09: In Reply to: I see the angry management show didn't help posted by MIKE on September 27, 2003 at 04:40:35: We've talked about this for quite a while, and I've said many times the bracket isn't hard. I just find it quite amusing that everyone is freaking out about making this stuff, yet it's been done for years on every car with non-stock brakes. it's simple metal fabrication, and doesn't require days hunched over in front of a CAD program to produce one. mass production, maybe. but you still have to fit it on the car before you can do anything with it. make up a piece, make it fit on the car, THEN go to the CAD program and draw it up so you can have it mass produced. don't take my comments as a personal attack back there, Mike. I'm glad you're trying to do it right- I just tend to think people go waaaay overboard in thinking small parts like this should be forged steel, 2" thick, CNC milled, then heat treated and plated with 14 layers of rust-preventative for it to work. the spindles on your car are huge chunks of cast iron/steel, then the edges are machined in the proper spots.. not a lot of technology there, and it's the part you're bolting all of this stuff to! just get a big chucnk of plate steel, and drill the holes in the proper place and you're done. Replys:

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: We've talked about this for quite a while, and I've said many times the bracket isn't hard. I just find it quite amusing that everyone is freaking out about making this stuff, yet it's been done for years on every car with non-stock brakes. it's simple metal fabrication, and doesn't require days hunched over in front of a CAD program to produce one. mass production, maybe. but you still have to fit it on the car before you can do anything with it. make up a piece, make it fit on the car, THEN go to the CAD program and draw it up so you can have it mass produced. : don't take my comments as a personal attack back there, Mike. I'm glad you're trying to do it right- I just tend to think people go waaaay overboard in thinking small parts like this should be forged steel, 2" thick, CNC milled, then heat treated and plated with 14 layers of rust-preventative for it to work. the spindles on your car are huge chunks of cast iron/steel, then the edges are machined in the proper spots.. not a lot of technology there, and it's the part you're bolting all of this stuff to! : just get a big chucnk of plate steel, and drill the holes in the proper place and you're done.