[Rick Muck- Mark IV]

Just to give you a feeling for the potential market of this unit, yesterday I spoke with Jimmy Price of Hi-Tech Autos (Superformance manufacturer) and they have received orders for GT40s that have now surpassed the total production of FAV/JW Engineering.....all in one year!

That many high capacity transaxles are used in sand rails and other off road competitions only strengthens the potential market for a product of this sort. I am sure some will continue to by a RBT/ZF but the advantages of this unit would woo many buyers. The downside is that 100 to 300 units per year still does not allow the automated tooling and production that could cut the price in half.

Consider that Tremec gearboxes can be bought retail for $1200-1300 range, now they are not as expensive to manufacture as a transaxle but if the market for a unit such as this were in the thousands per annum, the cost could possibly be in the $2500-3500 range with a fair return on the investment.

Remember you can put your production costs in two places: labor and machine time or automated tooling. The latter only works if the volume allows amortization of the up-front (and considerable) costs. Materials are the smallest expense in a product such as this.

I wish you good luck and hope it works out.

Rick