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Originally Posted by LS9CamaroSS
how hard is it to cut the sheet metal open?! it wouldn't cost very much to make these parts function al, and if done correctly it might actually save them money in material. the metal cut out of the vents can be melted down and reused. i'm with oldtimer. do it right boys or don't do it at all...
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The price of scrap steel is around $0.15/lb. And they probably can't even cut 1 lb of steel out of both pannels. To punch out those vents, it would need to either have an insert or would need to be treated such that the sharp edge goes away. This would far exceed $0.15 per pannel. Figure if it takes a worker 2 min to do the extra work while on the assembly line, that would cost $0.50 - $1.00 for labour alone. Plus there are the added costs of the equipment to do it and a bunch of other thigns. The unit cost would be an extra couple bucks.
Lastly, just cutting them out does not make them functional. Truly functional vents would have duct work leading back to the brakes. To to the engineering on that, plus manufacturing costs, would make a fair differance in price.