RE: air box

["Neal Tovsen" <ntovsen@piper.hamline.edu>]

Another thing you have to remember is that even if you had the best
engineers and the best CAD and pre-production environment in the world,
you're never gonna know everything until the cars have been on the road for
a while. What's worse, it combines with what was mentioned below. In other
words, it becomes expensive very quickly to go making supposedly "minor"
tweaks to a system, especially when you can't fully justify it to
management. Saying that it will make another 1/2 hp. isn't enough to get
tens of thousands of dollars to re-design the assembly line, then take the
risk that you'll do something wrong and end up with a stalled production or
(*shudder*) a recall.

This is very similar to software design, which is what I do. No matter how
bad the original code is from a design standpoint, it's hard to justify
spending money if it doesn't present a _significant_ improvement to the
customer (who's paying for it, in the end, anyway).

Neal

-----Original Message-----
From: Majordomo [mailto:majord@neubayern.net]On Behalf Of
EurotekVW@aol.com
Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 1998 6:56 PM
To: skerocdriver@juno.com; scirocco82@Hotmail.com
Cc: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
Subject: Re: air box


In a message dated 12/16/98 7:42:27 PM Eastern Standard Time,
skerocdriver@juno.com writes:

<< You really need to think about the origional design conecpt of all
 econobox cars.

 Fuel economy?  Sure!
 Affordable transportation?  Damn straight.
 Safe cars? Must be.
 Performance? No. Thats only a side effect.

 So then people like us take these plane jane cars and start to redesign
 (or buy design ideas from shops.) these cars to make them become
 performers.
  >>
My sentiments exactly.

Happy Holidays,

Frank
'82 8v [for sale]

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