I just wanted to pop in and mention that I'm finalizing the design for the 15" RPF1 center caps, and will be teaming up with Marc over at CarbonMiata to produce them very soon.
14" versions will be coming soon, after I do some local inspection and test fitting.
Below is a 'low res' 3d printed example of the center cap being test-fitted on my Mazda 2. It's more of a 24-sided polygon than a circle, but the finished product will be a perfect circle.
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Greasemonkey2000 (08-24-2016),Grip Driver (08-24-2016),oldgrayleather (08-24-2016),tsingson (09-21-2016)
Thats awesome! Hope they sell well and teach Enkei for dropping the ball!!
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Can't wait for the 14's!!
The product is finished and has been sent to Marc at CarbonMiata for production. I discovered that these should also work on the Konig Helium so that broadens our market.
Next up are the 14" center cap variants.
Greasemonkey2000 (09-07-2016),JamieH (09-08-2016),Martin (09-07-2016)
That looks like a good candidate for injection molding.
Injection mold tooling for that part in the outskirts of Shanghai would be about USD $6,000.
Maybe $3800 using insert molding.
Gonna need to sell a lot of caps!
Are you thinking another manufacturing process?
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Marc is handling that aspect of it. I'm just the designer and have no experience in such things.
Tell Marc he need to improve or implement a final QC procedure.
The rear quad LED panel I purchased should have never left the factory with the poor quality I received.
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This cap was an initial lo-res test run and has been altered in design since. The furthest protruding axle stub I found thus far was on the rear of a Miata, and the finished design clears it just fine.
Thank you for your constructive feedback?
Phatmiata (09-07-2016)
Last edited by MiataQuest; 09-07-2016 at 02:46 PM.
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