I read somewhere that when Edelbrock developed their Cross-Ram that they had all kinds of cylinder to cylinder air distribution problems until they added multiple crossovers between the plenums. I wonder if this Vararam suffers the same issues.

 

I am going to try and get a hold of them this week. Tuesday is March 1 and I believe we should have an update.

As to the crossover issue I have not seen anything from Vararam on the issue. So they must not have had a problem. The Vararam design is similar to other I have seen and no one else has reported the problem.

 

What disappoints me most is that through all of this, Vararam has not seen fit to come on and directly provide potential customers with updates 'from the horse's mouth', so to speak.

It's like they couldn't give a damn about us.....

KW

 

Received these emails today. Copying and posting.



"We have stayed quiet to give ourselves the time needed to build and fine tune all of the production tooling . We have been running pre-production units to check all of the tolerances on "real" production parts vs rapid prototype parts or short run test shots.



All will be updated very soon.



VR tech



On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 2:16 PM, vararam industries wrote:

We did "NOT" get the Patent needed , so we had to re- apply with an altered design. We are confident that this one will pass, so much so that we are already having the tooling produced ​. Its a very critical component because it balances both banks and allows the system to use one OEM throttle body.

There are 6 manifolds not "one" we will be updating everyone on all of them very shortly.

These include some purpose race applications.



VR tech"

 

From the email I received today apparently Vararam did have the same problem. Looks like they have solved it and that is what the patent is about. Now I can see why they are waiting on the patent to come through.

 

All will be updated very soon....... March is almost over.

What are some real timeframes for this product? Is this a Q2 or realistic Q3/Q4 release Vararam? Many people are on the fence to just buy the MSD intake including me. Its really frustrating having nobody from there providing any updates.

The last update on here by Vararam was April 2015 with a release date of summer..... of 2015. We don't need trade secrets.... just a release date. If the patents will take 6 months then please say so.

 

It seems most LS products that might be any good...all take years to release ! It does seem odd.

 

Any updates?

 

Around the first if the month I will send them another e-mail for updates unless we get info ahead of time. I can understand them wanting to get the plenum balance deal under a patent. Apparently the Edelbrock intake suffers from the same dual plenum unbalance.

 

Do they have an office here in Houston?

 

In Pasadena

 

When I read "couldn't get the patent" I was thinking maybe it got shutdown because it infringed on another design...

 

How about a field trip and a first hand report? :

 

Nope...still moving forward. All delays have resulted in incremental improvements over the original design. I've resigned myself to "it's ready when it's ready" and keeping in touch periodically for updates.

 

Usually, the longer you wait on these types of items to bring them to market (patent or not), the smaller the market becomes and the better chance a competitor has of copying it. Considering all the people that got tired of waiting and bought a FAST or another brand, and the fact the new LT engines are out, I would think they probably lost more sales by waiting then if they would have been early to market and got a jump on sales while not worrying so much about the patent. Anything the company I work for has patented, it gets copied in a year or 2 anyhow. Small design changes negate the patent, so it is better to bring the product to market and sell them while your competitor is at the drawing board trying to come up with a copy. By the time they get it to market, you have a 2 year jump and 75% of your sales are done by then anyhow.

 

I'm not far from there.

 

I'd love to run over there. If someone had an address I could run over before class.

 

Here you go.

Vararam Industries
1420 Preston Road
Pasadena, Tx 77503

Phone: 832-975-0671

 

I'll go by tomorrow. They might be closed cause of Good Friday though.

 

This intake isn't really ever going to come out....they are just stringing us along because they can....a lot like the different runner lengths for the FAST intakes.....