[DeTomaso] Aluminum Rear Carriers on Ebay

[F&D Terry]

Mike,

Having made two aluminum intake manifolds for my superchargers, I 
suggest those uprights are CNC machined from a solid. No evidence of any 
welds welds can be seen from the 4 photos provided and the faces are 
typical of the flat and uniform surfaces typical of CNC machining. I 
designed an aluminum upright using EmachineShop's software and the 
weight calculated by their software was about 6lbs.

Fred T.

Mike Thomas wrote:

>Right, thanks Jack
>Wasn't really interested in buying them, more curious about them.  Larry
>Stock rebuilt my stock uprights a couple of years ago, and that will have to
>do me for the duration.
>Mike
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>From: JDeRyke at aol.com [mailto:JDeRyke at aol.com] 
>Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2007 11:20 AM
>To: mbefthomas at comcast.net; detomaso at realbig.com
>Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Aluminum Rear Carriers on Ebay
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>In a message dated 8/15/07 6:22:22 AM, mbefthomas at comcast.net writes:
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><< Who makes these?  They look nice, but are they much lighter? >>
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>Likely weigh less than half the iron OEMs 20 lbs. But don't get too excited,
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>Mike. I can't tell exactly from the single photo but they look like 
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>fabrications and if so, the quality of the welds would be the determining
>factor. I'd 
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>want to see documents on heat-treat and X-rays before I installed & dumped
>the 
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>clutch on our car. The lower section looks very open and unsupported.... If 
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>they are weldments, the 'builder' could be anyone with a rear carrier for 
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>reference, and a TIG welder. And a big pile of 6061. FWIW- J DeRyke
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