Welcome to the boards!
Thank you very much for your kind words. I think any bunch of dedicated guys can pull of any thing they want to. I told Larry the car would have "no excuses" and that is how we built it.
We have already transferred much of the technology to our cars. Our cars are now coming delivered with CV 1/2 shafts. Our hubs have the drive pins milled right into them. I imagine we will be driving our rotor hats from the OD of the hub shortly, all in an effort to make our cars as best as we can.
The steering is so expensive to make, we haven't taken the leap to go into production on that part yet, maybe one day. The front and rear suspension are specific to the billet chassis. There is really nothing we can do to move that to our car. We have always stuck with the original chassis and that means compromises. The Aerogel is pretty nasty, dusty, and expensive to work with. I doubt we will be using much more of that. One thing we are seriously considering now is to make the footboxes out of aluminum so we can make them wider and deeper than the original car. We wouldn't change the chassis, however.
We did not protect the aluminum on this project with anodizing or anything else. Almost all of our parts are made from 6061 which is a spectacular alloy. It is rather strong and it is very corrosion resistant. We didn't anodize the parts on the car because anodizing etches the part and removes many of the machining marks. It also leaves the part rather dull.
Our tanks are not anodized either. Many people polish the tank when they get them and anodizing them would make polishing them quite difficult.
I will post on this site if we can find a reasonably priced place to print the book. Anyone with any suggestions, please let me know!
David
