Rumour about aluminum driveshaft $$$!

[Ryan Paterick]

Not sure if it's true or not but thought I would share with you guys.

http://mustangworld.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=194958

 

[1105]

I thing its abunch of The person who started the thread is for a company, and says not to mention the price increase... I think hes just out there to scare people so they will go out and buy one, thus giving him more money.

 

[Joes95GT]

The price of everything is going up . In the new Edelbrock catalog, their suggested list price is $838.95, per cylinder head. Everyone go out and buy the heads while they're cheap. Soon enough they will be $1677.90 for a set of cylinder heads! Another uninformed idiot.

Joe

 

[96darkhorse]

the guy who started the thread is a well-known friend of mine and i purchase most of my stuff from him....trust me....he is just looking out for us!!!

 

[96darkhorse]

the guy who started the thread is a well-known friend of mine and i purchase most of my stuff from him....trust me....he is just looking out for us!!!

 

[wythors]

Summit Racing has them in stock for well under $200.

http://store.summitracing.com/defau...word&searchtype=both&part=aluminum+driveshaft

 

[ProKiller]

i don't doubt it. there is a steel shortage going on b/c of Iraq. the price of nails and other little stuff is going up and there has been amount caps on how much a single company/person can purchase.

 

[95snoozer]

thanks, I'll buy used

 

[Matts89LX5.0]

thanks, I'll buy used

exactly

 

[Rootus]

i don't doubt it. there is a steel shortage going on b/c of Iraq. the price of nails and other little stuff is going up and there has been amount caps on how much a single company/person can purchase.

I can definitely see the price of steel having a profound impact on the price of an aluminum driveshaft...

 

[swingline]

I doubt that will happen. There may be a price increase but there are still plenty of distributors with them in stock. Besides, most people already have one.

 

[AznStanger3v]

my automechanics teacher sold me his brand new one for $75 a couple months ago. Talk about awesome

 

[94greenvert]

It's the Chinese that are buying up all of the metals. Copper, Aluminum, Steel and such. There are doing alot of inter-structure building. The price on Aluminum and Copper is a lot higher now for home builders (my line of work).

 

[ChromeYellow94]

yes they are right...

the chineese are buying up all scrap metel for big bucks too help bulid some of the 2010 or 08 (not sure) olympics buildings and suck. No BS. Look around and do a steel market search on google. Suppliers are saying that prices may rise as much as 120%

don't call people liar's if you don't know

 

[Ryan Paterick]

yes they are right...

the chineese are buying up all scrap metel for big bucks too help bulid some of the 2010 or 08 (not sure) olympics buildings and suck. No BS. Look around and do a steel market search on google. Suppliers are saying that prices may rise as much as 120%

don't call people liar's if you don't know

My dad is in the scrap business. ALUMINUM has gone up 50% in the last couple of months, if that helps at all.

 

[Killercanary]

I also just heard that aluminum is expected to go up 12-15% in the next few months. It will directly impact the price of parts and such.

 

[smokediver27]

Furthermore, I'll add that I paid over 200 for my aluminum ds as poweredbyford, who were just selling them a month earlier at the lower price. My joints were bad so i didnt feel like driving back from orlando, and they didnt charge me to install it while they were doing my gears. They also stated that the prices were going up quick.

 

[Stump1000]

Copper has gone up too.. i think all metal is going up quick. Hope it comes down soon

 

[rel3rd]

Hmmmph...weird.
I work for the U.S.'s largest steelmaker, and we aren't selling any more steel than we were 6 months ago...

I do know that China, who is the largest exporter of ore, has quadrupled their price in the last 6 months.

We do export a lot of steel to China however. Kinda ironic that our U.S. carmakers and other big companies prefer the "deals" and like buying cheap (as in cheap QUALITY) imported steel, but the Chinese prefer to use ours...lol...

 

[Stangfreak95]

GeneEvanFord has raised big time = 250$ not shipped. Summit and Jegs are still having the old prices at 160$. But Summit is already backordered

I just ordered mine from JegS.