Tecnacraft On Road Wheels
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Tecnacraft On Road Wheels
These were the gems on the Delta Villain IFS I picked up last week. Just thought some of you guys would dig some photos...
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Wishful thinking I'm afraidbadhoopty wrote:somebody should start making those again...
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Right. I was thinking RC10 replica wheels. Because they are 2-piece, you'd have to do them at $25 a wheel at that price. Though, the market might be more soluble for higher prices considering some of the used Sees and other wheels have gone for $80+ a set.badhoopty wrote: btw i'm talking about buggy wheels...
I'm not sure there would be any profit in a set of those at $100, but I could be wrong. I'm gonna have to talk to pops to see what he thinks programming time would be. Combined with screws and anodizing, I donno if those could be made for $100 a set.
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As long as they're not exact copies of the Technacrafts. I don't agree with making exact reproductions of long discontinued highly desireable parts. Do some different center designs, do a 2.2, or whatever. Fake stuff sucks.
Rouge Elements sells some super bad arse Clodbuster wheels that are very similar to Tecnacrafts, I think they're even cooler to be honest. Expensive though, $250 a set. They are beadlocks, but not the normal bead-screw kind of beadlock, more like the original RC10 3 piece wheel beadlock style. Maybe he could be convinced to do some RC10 wheels. His Clod wheels look top notch.
Nice wheels Eau Rouge.
Rouge Elements sells some super bad arse Clodbuster wheels that are very similar to Tecnacrafts, I think they're even cooler to be honest. Expensive though, $250 a set. They are beadlocks, but not the normal bead-screw kind of beadlock, more like the original RC10 3 piece wheel beadlock style. Maybe he could be convinced to do some RC10 wheels. His Clod wheels look top notch.
Nice wheels Eau Rouge.
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wyldbill wrote:doug,how about some 5 hole weld style, sprint car style wheels similar to the custom works stickers you made a few years ago they would look killer on a sprint car resto or buggy.
That's exactly what I have been thinking about. I don't think we could make them fast enough. I think a realistic looking 2.0 or 2.2 wheel that was a real 2-piece wheel like these T-crafts, could be something that the DO guys and resto guys would spooge over.
I have a few drawings of the designs already, I just need to wrangle my dad down to see where we could be on price point. These Tecnacrafts were never cheap, but something current would be sick, even if they were expensive. BTW, he's been doing pretty cool boutique machining for about 30 years now: http://www.cartermachine.net and now he's on his own. It's pretty cool to have access to that.
I've been looking for something for my Harper nitro car, and there is NOTHING out there even remotely nice looking.
I have some ideas... then again, if I could get paid for all of the good ideas I have in my head and no time to execute them, I'd be able to quit my day job.
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The machine shop that originally made those wheels is only 50 miles away from me and they are still in business. I approached them about making a few sets and they said they could do them but that it would be an expensive venture with all the design and set up time. For 10 sets they quoted me $250 a set. Of course the price would drop per set if more were ordered
The problem I see with this venture is that $2500 is a huge chunk of change. In addition by buying more to get the price down, you also have to spend more which means your initial investment would be more like $5000. Now that you got all this inventory, you have to hope they will sell at a price that covers your cost plus a little profit to compensate for your effort. what would be the limit that someone would pay for a set knowing that they are replicas.
I could have shopped around but I found that a lot of machine shops in my area are overloaded with work so they are less likely to take on small jobs. Even the Machine shop that my work subs out jobs to was uninterested in a High lift wheel design I had.
PS Eau Rouge, if you ever decide to sell those wheels, please contact me.
The problem I see with this venture is that $2500 is a huge chunk of change. In addition by buying more to get the price down, you also have to spend more which means your initial investment would be more like $5000. Now that you got all this inventory, you have to hope they will sell at a price that covers your cost plus a little profit to compensate for your effort. what would be the limit that someone would pay for a set knowing that they are replicas.
I could have shopped around but I found that a lot of machine shops in my area are overloaded with work so they are less likely to take on small jobs. Even the Machine shop that my work subs out jobs to was uninterested in a High lift wheel design I had.
PS Eau Rouge, if you ever decide to sell those wheels, please contact me.
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Please Jim, leave some sets for the othersshodog wrote:
PS Eau Rouge, if you ever decide to sell those wheels, please contact me.
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yeah doug you know what i mean, remember these;
http://www.apexspeed.com/doug/rc/weldwheels/gsx_roller_006.jpg
how 'bout it guys these would be sweet in aluminum
http://www.apexspeed.com/doug/rc/weldwheels/gsx_roller_006.jpg
how 'bout it guys these would be sweet in aluminum
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