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I believe it was highway through hell which I saw.

You know...the box sucks, bad. You know why?

Yep, that's the first example which came to mind. I know that there are front crossmember braces for BMW's but this was quicker to find

Sway bars are an improvement for handling but are not what I meant, I meant braces for the frame rails, something like this:

If you were to build it yourself, make it adjustable. Even if you tack the parts on the car, you can end up with differences screwing your work.

Are they actually an improvement? I remember reading about pros and cons but can't remember what is what. Bracing the unibody in only one place is not ideal as far as I know. Maybe combined with a brace under the unibody rails it would make itself worth?

Fancy pants

I was surprised to find places looking just like where my grandparents lived just around the hill. Wide valley a handful of houses and a lot of green

Come on next paycheck, I need some off-road tires, road tires don't feel confident at all on dirt and gravel

Today's ride.. about 20 miles total, solo ride so the pace was really light. It's tons of fun navigating by map. Top of the hill, overseeing the city: Top of the hill was the ridge line in the distance And I still had to go to this ridge line From the previous ridge line I saw the destination, a few lakes, barely visible in the picture Very windy on the lakes... Deserted house

So your answer is USA labor and quality. Yea that is exactly what the OP asks for.... How about what specifically with the quality? Is the basket machined a certain way with special coatings? Is the surround made of some high quality super rubber that most subs do not use? Is it because of the way the voice coil is put together? does that take more time? Those would be better questions to answer instead of "because things cost more in the USA". And if you guys think Mark and AAron should answer this, then why are you posting? Nobody is asking about the business, I am asking about the materials in the SSA woofer that makes it worth the price. It's not the material, its the tooling. Ask for prices in a machine shop, how much is an hour on the CNC. You more than likely get tighter tolerances, better assembled parts, better consistency in a batch of motors tooled in the US. One good example is a batch of subs made in China and sold here all had the spiders come off at some point, needing a new dustcap, shimming the coil and re-gluing the spider if no damage was done to the coil. Why? Because chinese baskets weren't prepped for glue right. I have a basket from FI sitting next to me. All the glue surfaces are sanded to bare aluminum. The devil is in the details

Wasn't me

Tomorrow looks like a nice day for a ride, I'll probably put some miles on the hills close to the work campus.

Among the silly things we did during high-school computer science labs was putting printscreens of the software instead of the actual software and claiming the PC froze, no more lab work

I did not mean you Stefan, although your mini-virus seems like things we played with in high-school. Only we were writing massive amounts of garbage data

Awesome, looks like an over-enthusiastic tech adept, which I loathe

I've seen a tv show presenting wreckers and honestly it looks like a job I'd enjoy doing Do you ever get bored?

From the breakage weekend Went yesterday on the same track with 3 others riders, 2 in good condition, we lost one after 30 minutes and kept going on the 20 mile course like we were running from the cops. Really cool trip

I wonder why he wants to get rid of the car so quickly after building it up?

Haha, you're going to be riding a girl's sled

I wish I did...it's for a customer.

Thank you Aaron ! It was a fuckfest with the customs though and I still need to get money back from customs. But it's all well.

Pimpin' ! I put the summer wheels on last weekend. It looks like an older car with chrome on the center caps

I don't think it fits in the RLi flush-mount And I need to ship it out tomorrow so if it doesn't fit, I can't test it in the Jeep

Got all my packages from the US safe and sound, no more stress with customs. Xcon included, that thing is a beast