Paul Bryant
Living Legend
Quite right Bull, I spent two years developing my Rocket headers (not full time, every day) But for example the Oval to round transition piece at the head has over 500 hours development time in it.
Firstly I had to come up with a design that would work, then I had to make the tooling to produce and machine it.
THEN, I had to make that tooling work. As always a great idea doesn't always progress straight into a workable solution.
Some of the earlier versions
A small number that did not work. 6 Meters of tube went into the initial development, each piece is only about 32mm long, that's about 187 piece's that went into the scrap.
Then there was the development of the tubes, the collector (250 hours) tail pipe etc etc.
Not only all of the above, but it all had to add up to be financially viable, because if it wasn't going to work from a Business perspective, it wasn't going to happen.