In reply to Stampie :
Well according to the person who was making em the other 2 broke them and requested replacements after he stopped making em. I figure if I decide to sell it after repairing I'll make a killing with a motivated buyer
In reply to Stampie :
Well according to the person who was making em the other 2 broke them and requested replacements after he stopped making em. I figure if I decide to sell it after repairing I'll make a killing with a motivated buyer
In reply to ChrisLS8 :
Sounds like you need to make a knock off and have a side gig. I'd make your knock off better than the original. The original seems to have a problem with breaking.
Patrick said:Fwiw my $140 speedmaster electric fuel pump lasted about 40 minutes of run time over 2 years.
40 minutes of run time over 2 years tells me there was a lot of very old fuel sitting in that pump for a long time. Not always a favorite thing for fuel systems. Just sayin'.
In reply to Keith Tanner :
Nah it's a drag car it always had fresh 93 in it because i only put in a couple gallons at a time
Did you run the pump dry before storing? Or did it get out regularly and you only ran it for a minute or two? That's a plausible use case for a drag car :)
Never ran dry, and it's generally drive off trailer to tech, shut down, drive to staging lanes, shut down, make pass and back to trailer, shut down. I'm not sure if it didn't like being cycled so much or if it's just trash but i feel like i wasted a lot of $ when you can almost literally hook up a holley "blue" pump out of the trash and run it for years
I have worked in engineering and manufacturing environments for 30 years now and unfortunately yes counterfeiting is rampant and Amazon is a huge offender in creating a gargantuan channel for it, and just as bad in my wee noodle is that you could actually be "Areomotive" (or some brand) and send a spec to China, get good first articles and 6 months later you are selling counterfeits of your own product. Fake QC reports that say ISO 9001 all over them just filled out with a bunch of numbers, samples that have nothing to do with the actual shipment, 'decontenting' over time of you product with junk materials- it feels like endless loosing battle even if you are on to the tricks from where I sit.
Digging this back up since this one apparently was sold through Summit:
Summit Racing does the right thing.
"Rather than return the valve bodies to Speedmaster, we are destroying them at our facility to prevent any possibility of them entering the supply chain through a marketplace or another distributor."
Speedmaster has been a controversial topic for a long time now, they've copied USA made intakes and cylinder heads for various engines in the past. I think this is the first time they actually included the OEM's name a product, though.
A couple things . . .
It would be helpful if there were some sort of database where people could try to verify if a product they bought was possibly not what it claims to be. An example might be SEMA having a database of known counterfeit aftermarket parts – especially safety related items.
Earlier this week I was wondering if a pair of used Enkei wheels I bought, used, are actually Enkeis. I don’t have anything to compare them to and I cannot find any reference to them online. My research did come across a lot of “fake Enkei” inquiries.
L5wolvesf said:A couple things . . .
It would be helpful if there were some sort of database where people could try to verify if a product they bought was possibly not what it claims to be. An example might be SEMA having a database of known counterfeit aftermarket parts – especially safety related items.
Earlier this week I was wondering if a pair of used Enkei wheels I bought, used, are actually Enkeis. I don’t have anything to compare them to and I cannot find any reference to them online. My research did come across a lot of “fake Enkei” inquiries.
Your best bet might be to contact Enkei; they may have their own notes on spotting fakes. I ran across a few sites that tried to collect these for multiple brands, but only a few companies participated.
MadScientistMatt said:L5wolvesf said:A couple things . . .
It would be helpful if there were some sort of database where people could try to verify if a product they bought was possibly not what it claims to be. An example might be SEMA having a database of known counterfeit aftermarket parts – especially safety related items.
Earlier this week I was wondering if a pair of used Enkei wheels I bought, used, are actually Enkeis. I don’t have anything to compare them to and I cannot find any reference to them online. My research did come across a lot of “fake Enkei” inquiries.
Your best bet might be to contact Enkei; they may have their own notes on spotting fakes. I ran across a few sites that tried to collect these for multiple brands, but only a few companies participated.
Makes a certain amount of sense that few participated. Collect data on how to spot fakes, put it out in the open, China downloads and reads it, adapts their fakes, now you can't spot fakes
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