I have a thread goin in the 5th gen section in which I am trying to guage the interest from the community in production of SFCs. Thought this would be beneficial to the 4th gen community as well.


http://forums.maxima.org/showthread.php?t=479751

 

I would be interested if you're talking about bolt-in pieces.

 

u know i am in from other threads

 

Total weight? Was it around 60-70lbs?

 

Nope its under 50lbs from my calculations. I am very sensitive to weight changes in my car. I can feel a difference in performance when I have my 12" sub in the back and the SFCs didnt have any noticible effect on acceleration

 

When do you think you can get them ready?

 

I am not sure if I'm the right man to distribute these just cause I work and go to school at the same time, but I did do quite a bit of research regarding which tubing to use and I found at least one place to make them. I think my set of SFCs just may serve to educate others a little bit on what tubing is good to use and stuff like that. Generally if others want to do what I did, instead of having to do the research for themselves, like I had to, they can follow the same steps I did, and get a very similar product from their local roll cage/ tube chassis shops.

The fabricator that I used said he was possibly interested in making a kit, like the old warpspeed kit, but he didnt seem like he jumped on the idea. He doesnt seem to be a guy thats very money driven, he seems to be one of those guys that just works on cars, to financially feed his love of racing (every weekend he leaves fri after work and goes racing as well as racing on sat and sun). I think he would make a kit eventually but he would prob need to see a few more cars in person to get the measurements perfect, before he would make the kit, and there is really no way of telling how long that would take. It depends on how many local people jump on it. I am going to a pretty big local meet at the end of the month. That may spur some local interest.


On another note, my structural foam is coming in the mail on tuesday. I got the stiffest stuff that they had 16lbs/cubic ft density. I am going to fill the stage 1 tubing with it to further stiffen the chassis. I'll make a post with a review and some pics when I get that done.