Taylormade Air Tunnels?

mrgrn said:

fiberglass is silly

carbon is much stiffer and stronger then glass. the only reason for glass is for cost savings, glass does nothig better

$400 is steep

I have bought OPP intakes for the R1, not bad really in carbon and some clear they are fine

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As you know...the amount of material in either carbon fiber or fiberglass is not where the cost of these parts is really coming from especially with the type of glass Taylormade uses and the small size of the parts...it's the labor to build them... the same whether you are doing fiberglass or carbon fiber.

Racers would pay the same for C/F for this part as the glass, so the cost savings is not there... but AMA in their infinite wisdom would have you believe fiberglass saves money.

The finish is not an issue for racers either, but these are very clean inside where it matters and outside where it doesn't.

I'm not questioning the quality of anybody else's stuff, but merely stating what you get for the money with Taylormade...AMA approved race parts.

Somebody could do these in ABS and they would be a hell of a lot cheaper...but you have to build the mold, then construct the tooling...there is cost in every process somewhere... and you'd have to sell a lot of parts to recover the non-recurring engineering.