DJ Come in please!
Originally Posted by DJ's99SS
No prob. I'm getting some info together for our "doubting" Thomas...I hope the McCloed works better for you than it did for me. I still have my old one here in the garage. It needs to be sent back and gone back through to freshin' it up but thats it...yeh as soon as I get this deal figured out I'll be looking for those "magic" numbers too...on drag radials!! Good luck!!
No one smart enough wants to pay full pop for anything dude. Live it with it that you are getting raped on these "special" setups that they send you to "try" Thats the R&D right there at their cost because the parts are sooooo cheap to be had.
Last edited by V6 Bird; Oct 26, 2006 at 03:52 PM.
Originally Posted by DJ's99SS
No prob. I'm getting some info together for our "doubting" Thomas...I hope the McCloed works better for you than it did for me. I still have my old one here in the garage. It needs to be sent back and gone back through to freshin' it up but thats it...yeh as soon as I get this deal figured out I'll be looking for those "magic" numbers too...on drag radials!! Good luck!!
Originally Posted by V6 Bird
Any clutch manufactured by the major clutch builders comes with a manfucture defect warranty. Thats all that they are turning these things in on.
No one warranties racing parts that stays in business long. Sure you can call it good customer service by picking up a phone, calling the distirbutor who receives these "special" disks and says, put it in our box and send it to Joe Schmoe. He's sending back a defective clutch.
Then they inspect it once in house and with all the 700 mark up they have in the clutches, pay the 200-300 bucks for the unit that was an installer error and everyone says they have great service...Its not hard to crack peoples businesses wide open when you dig hard enough. Textrailia does not make ANY parts in house. Bet on that?
No one warranties racing parts that stays in business long. Sure you can call it good customer service by picking up a phone, calling the distirbutor who receives these "special" disks and says, put it in our box and send it to Joe Schmoe. He's sending back a defective clutch.
Then they inspect it once in house and with all the 700 mark up they have in the clutches, pay the 200-300 bucks for the unit that was an installer error and everyone says they have great service...Its not hard to crack peoples businesses wide open when you dig hard enough. Textrailia does not make ANY parts in house. Bet on that?
I do agree with some of what your saying because some of it is free market working at it's best...We can play the "mark up" game with just about anything...some of it will blow peoples mind for sure!! Point taken...
Originally Posted by DJ's99SS
Believe me I understand that to its fullest...But...when you get a personal phone call from Australia from the head honcho at Textralia wanting to know what happend with the Exo-Skel and what they are going to do for me to get me to where I want to be with the car...now thats customer service x10 in my book! I know what it takes to make customers happy. Thats what I do for a living. I have NEVER in my 20+ years of racing/building cars have had a company call me personally to find out why the clutch didn't perform to their standards. Little did they know my car was 3800+lbs with 28" slicks, 3.73's, making over 850RWTQ...before the converstation ended I was told a triple disc was being built with my name on it...I think I'll stick with Textralia not XYZ...
I do agree with some of what your saying because some of it is free market working at it's best...We can play the "mark up" game with just about anything...some of it will blow peoples mind for sure!! Point taken...
I do agree with some of what your saying because some of it is free market working at it's best...We can play the "mark up" game with just about anything...some of it will blow peoples mind for sure!! Point taken...
Once again if you just paid 1200 for one of my clutches that cost me 200 bucks or less, ill call you since im not really paying the bill...I just made 1000 off of you and using your money to provide you customer service.
I promise you if you compare the pictures you see that I posted, you can find the power handling you want for a fraction of retail brother. Daikon is who makes them for Exedy, and its the same Daikon parts without the purple anodizing going into the Textrailia clutches too...they just pick up the part, have the unit poweder coated whatever color Textrailia wants to use that day and ship it out as their own.
One last thing and ill go on with my day...
The old saying goes..
Looks like stock, feels like stock...must be stock...I assure you these "feel" like stock clutches are the larger GM diaphragm setups thats been made for a long time. The true power handling capability is not in the pressure plate or the diaphragms...its all in the disc setup.
The old saying goes..
Looks like stock, feels like stock...must be stock...I assure you these "feel" like stock clutches are the larger GM diaphragm setups thats been made for a long time. The true power handling capability is not in the pressure plate or the diaphragms...its all in the disc setup.
Originally Posted by V6 Bird
Once again if you just paid 1200 for one of my clutches that cost me 200 bucks or less, ill call you since im not really paying the bill...I just made 1000 off of you and using your money to provide you customer service.
I promise you if you compare the pictures you see that I posted, you can find the power handling you want for a fraction of retail brother. Daikon is who makes them for Exedy, and its the same Daikon parts without the purple anodizing going into the Textrailia clutches too...they just pick up the part, have the unit poweder coated whatever color Textrailia wants to use that day and ship it out as their own.
I promise you if you compare the pictures you see that I posted, you can find the power handling you want for a fraction of retail brother. Daikon is who makes them for Exedy, and its the same Daikon parts without the purple anodizing going into the Textrailia clutches too...they just pick up the part, have the unit poweder coated whatever color Textrailia wants to use that day and ship it out as their own.
got another excuse for good customer service??
Originally Posted by DJ's99SS
FYI...I didn't pay $1200.00, not even close...
got another excuse for good customer service??
got another excuse for good customer service??
Remember...Money is everyones motivator. It would motivate the **** out of me knowing Ive got 500% markup in something costing pennies on the dollar. Ill do whatever it takes to make that customer happy so i can continue making myself rich off of something so cheap.
Originally Posted by V6 Bird
Remember...Money is everyones motivator. It would motivate the **** out of me knowing Ive got 500% markup in something costing pennies on the dollar. Ill do whatever it takes to make that customer happy so i can continue making myself rich off of something so cheap.
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Mike H, please behave. I'd hate to stumble and hit the ban button again for you getting into pissing matches about vendors
In case you didn't realize, SOME people enjoy doing R&D work for companies for hook-ups. I've been doing it for years, and have built some good industry relationships that way.
In case you didn't realize, SOME people enjoy doing R&D work for companies for hook-ups. I've been doing it for years, and have built some good industry relationships that way.
Originally Posted by Nine Ball
Mike H, please behave. I'd hate to stumble and hit the ban button again for you getting into pissing matches about vendors
In case you didn't realize, SOME people enjoy doing R&D work for companies for hook-ups. I've been doing it for years, and have built some good industry relationships that way.
In case you didn't realize, SOME people enjoy doing R&D work for companies for hook-ups. I've been doing it for years, and have built some good industry relationships that way.
Hey Tony, you need a clutch?
lol jk
Originally Posted by Nine Ball
nah, I got four new spares in storage
Originally Posted by NVR4GET
Just wait if I cant get anything to work I am ordering it! 
They make a carbon/carbon set up that should be pretty streetable. Plus the clutch and flywheel together come in at like 12lbs total. You would have to get your idle tuning changed tho. 
Mike what's your phone number man it seems like you know everything and where to get it why don't you Hook us all up? I was wondering if he was ever going to stop repeating himself. You are like a kid that just found out that KIX and Cheerios are made by same person (General Mills). So why don't you give them a call and save some money on you cereal. I like to save money also, but there is a point I am going to stop. Good luck on your bussines venture.
Originally Posted by DONAIMIAN
Do it!!!!
They make a carbon/carbon set up that should be pretty streetable. Plus the clutch and flywheel together come in at like 12lbs total. You would have to get your idle tuning changed tho.
They make a carbon/carbon set up that should be pretty streetable. Plus the clutch and flywheel together come in at like 12lbs total. You would have to get your idle tuning changed tho.
Originally Posted by Inspector12
Mike what's your phone number man it seems like you know everything and where to get it why don't you Hook us all up? I was wondering if he was ever going to stop repeating himself. You are like a kid that just found out that KIX and Cheerios are made by same person (General Mills). So why don't you give them a call and save some money on you cereal. I like to save money also, but there is a point I am going to stop. Good luck on your bussines venture.
feels great and it will be a nice performer when the 9" gets here for us to beat on it at the track. Theres no doubt it will hold what we are going to throw at it.
Im still researching theparts for the twin and triple disk setups. Im working with Daikon on that.
Who wouldnt want a triple or twin disk for HALF of what they retail for...