Well Duane what I'm saying is that word got out localy(which I did'nt want to deal with) about what I was doing and as a result of that I'm now covered up with alot of rad projects I had not given any thought or had the desire to do. But I have to do something to pay for all the equipment I bought to do the stock drop in rads for members.
When I started my thread about rads it was to show what I was doing for my car and to offer it to anyone else that wanted one.
Not only did guy's ask me on the thread to do drop in rads but they flooded my PM and Email box's with pleas to make drop in rads which was something I stated at the begining I was not interested in doing. I knew how much trouble the other guy's that tried it went through and in the end it fell through.
I thought long and hard about doing this because I knew that if I took it on I was going to have to buy a HF welding machine to weld them out. I had a Miller Maxtar 140 which is a nice little machine and it handled anything I wanted to do around here except Aluminum, You need High Frequency to TIG weld Aluminum.
Before all this started if I needed to weld Aluminum I would go to my uncles place to do it because I did'nt weld Aluminum very much at home. I knew that if everyone that begged and offered to send money hit me with orders all at once I could'nt go to his place and do buiseness out of it, that just would'nt be right.
I also felt like since I went public it was either time for me to put up or shut up, I chose to step up to the plate and stop flapping my gums.
I went to the welding supply house and bought a Miller SD 180 Squarewave machine. Not the biggest badest HF rig Miller makes but its used by all the racecar teams that are affiliated with Miller and will weld anything I'll be doing, by the time I got out the door I had spent right at $2,000.
I then sourced a sheetmetal shop to buy sheet Aluminum from and they cut and bend peices into the various different angle peices I needed to cut the brackets and so forth out of and that costs money. There are many other things I had to get in order to these things in proficent manner but thats enough of the grocery list.
This is the part that realy gets me, all of those guy's that were begging me just about on a daily basis to "please take there money because they wanted to be the first to get one and that they would pay more to be the first" would not even return my Email that I sent them telling them they were available and the could get the order info in the Parts for Sale section of the SCCOA board.
I spent 4 hrs in front of the comp typing and sending that Email to every single person that told me "Put me on your list because as soon as you get it worked out I'll send you the money" Several had offered to pay more than a Griffen, but only 2 people out of over 50 even replied back.
The 2 guy's (Lee Mast and Doug Franklin) that I contacted to be the first 2 (1 auto,1 manual) Jumped up and helped me get going.
They both now have there rads and can speak freely about them to anyone that wants to talk to them about it. I'm lifting the dome of silence Lee and Doug!
I'm presently working on the 2 guy's rads that answered my Email, there runing alittle behind because 1 fella had some things come up and I delayed starting to let him get things straightened out. Having 1 core sent one day and the other sent 3 days later raises shiping costs to me by twice the amount.
I will work with guy's, were all only human and things come up. I understand that all too well, life can change in a blink of the eye and I know that firsthand. The point of all that is that noone has even contacted me to say " I know I made a comitment but something has happened" or " Thanks but I've decided I'm not in the market anymore" instead its just stoped like flicking a switch.
The very minute I posted they were available everything stoped just like it never happened.
I must say I'm confused and dont know what to make of this, of all the car boards I visit(I have varied interests) I always held this one at a higher level. The guy's here seemed to have a comradery and respect for each other that I've not seen at other sites and this has been my favorite site because of that.
Right now I feel like I was walked out on a plank and then it was jerked out from under me.
Info about the rads is posted in the Parts for Sale section. I'm not sure how far down its moved because I will not go there and post nothing realy just to bring it up to the top again. I'm realy not much on whoreing.
There is a seperate Email address listed there for any qeustions you may have.
I had to set up another Email account just to handle the rad stuff because there was sooo much of it that it had consumed my reg account and was getting confusing.
I'll shut up now, I did'nt mean to go on like this but you did ask.
As far as will I stop making them? I dont know, it all depends on if I get enough orders to tell those Chevy and Mopar guy's to go away.