ive never had problems with puralator. they are cheaper than fedex or ups, they just take longer. also, they dont seem to charge the horrendous "brokerage" fees that UPS charges...
thats the point though. even local shops will be expensive for single parts becuase whether you make a run of 3000 or of 3, you need to program the machine, which is the hard work. once its programmed, you basically just replace the stock and let it do its thing.
contact emachineshop, they were just featured in an article in Wired magazine. my work may be going through them for some prototype sheetmetal parts, as the are cheaper than local shops.
fiberglass would be a good option, someone like tte (posts in the misc vendor section) would be able to...
best solution is to cadmium plate them. powerslot sells their rotors already plated, but any plating shop should be able to do your stock rotors for cheap (local shop quoted me $20/rotor)
my $350 chevy sprint DD, filled it up last week for CDN$35, and i get about 550km to a tank. it works out to:
550 km / 32L = 17 km/L
341 miles / 8.5 US gal. = 40 miles/gallon
too bad its built like a tin can and would do me about as much good as a wet paper bag in an accident :(
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