I've had my 240 on jack stands for 4 months now, waiting on various turbo's and other assorted goodies, so I know all about the PITA waiting is.
Its best to get a guarentee of product delivery if somthing has to be fabbed.
On my website and before every purchase, I will clearly state that I build the manifold and piping upon purchase. I also have to order the turbo's since I aint rich enough to carry shop stock. But even then, 2 weeks is more then enough to weld up a log mani and fab piping. I don't know what is taking so long to build manifolds.
Brian
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I think its safe to say most of us wont be ordering from ETD again. This is horrible how long everything is taking, and it makes it worse when he cant give an honest answer as to when things are going to be completed. This "next week," "next week" garbage is really unprofessional and it (obviously) pisses everyone off.
Again, I apologise to all of you who thought you were going to get what you paid for right away (foolishly, it seems
)... Do what I did: take your manis when they come, and just walk away from ETD completely. It's too bad, they had such a good oppertunity to prove their company's worth here, and they failed miserably.
Again, I apologise to all of you who thought you were going to get what you paid for right away (foolishly, it seems
)... Do what I did: take your manis when they come, and just walk away from ETD completely. It's too bad, they had such a good oppertunity to prove their company's worth here, and they failed miserably.
Wow I never thought it would take that long for you guys.I wish you all the best. hopefully you all will get yours soon.My etd manifold is already in my KA-T...I wanted to make a review out of it but I want to ask for your opinions first...Do you think I should go ahead and make a review out of it? or should I wait till everybody got their manifolds?
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den240 wrote:Just talked to Jim.
He says he is sending out more manifolds today, and is refunding my money right now.
I think he is trying to do the right things, just didn't realize how long the mfg process would take, and made bad promises on delivery times.
All the manifolds are finished so anybody waiting for one will have it shipped likely tuesday or wednesday this week. Today is a National holiday in Canada so I can't send anything. UPS should be able to do a pick up from me tuesday or wednesday and everybody who is waiting will receive theirs in a few days from then.
den240 is absolutly right, the mfg process on this particular manifold was a whole lot longer then we would have ever been able to antitcipate. Getting steel now is harder for whatever reason, my supplier told me something about china using a lot because they are building for the olympics or something like that. I don't know about that, but it shure as hell took a lot longer for supplies then i thought.
If anybody has any questions feel free to email me, [email protected] and I'll answer those questions. You can also email there for tracking numbers.
Jim@ETD wrote:Getting steel now is harder for whatever reason, my supplier told me something about china using a lot because they are building for the olympics or something like that.
This is very true, my dad is a purchasing manager for a homebuilder and every product that uses steel has gotten more expensive. Apparently the Chinese bought up a TON of scrap steel in the US, and now there is a shortage. Prices on steel are going up as recycled steel is harder to come by. Steel has been steadily increasing in price for several months now and its starting to affect companies bottom line
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well let me show whats has happend
Hi Brett. You didn't leave a deposit(the one he agreed to send back to me today) . You called and gave me the card number the first time and it did not work. Then I called back and your Dad gave me a different card number and it again did not work(the 160 dollars that he said we didnt pay but he is refunding it). I called him back that day and he said he would get back to me when it was ready to go. I called again a week later and still have not heard anything from you. Unfortunately your order was not processed and missed the group buy date competly. I called three times to your house and was still not able to get a deposit. Unfortuantely I just can't call anymore times then that to chase for payments.
If you want you can purchase one now at Normal rates but the group buy rate can no longer be honored as it's way past that date. Unless a depost was charged to your car that I do not have record of (they were all declined) (hmm there is that 160 dollars again)there's not a whole lot more I can do. The group buy rate was $475cad (around $365 us) the regular rate is $549 (around $425) which is not really that much more.
Sorry to give you that bad news, I was wondering if you would eventually contact me(i talked to him on the phone twice and he looked up my name and said"its going to ship out next week").
Jim ETDRacing.com
Hi Brett. You didn't leave a deposit(the one he agreed to send back to me today) . You called and gave me the card number the first time and it did not work. Then I called back and your Dad gave me a different card number and it again did not work(the 160 dollars that he said we didnt pay but he is refunding it). I called him back that day and he said he would get back to me when it was ready to go. I called again a week later and still have not heard anything from you. Unfortunately your order was not processed and missed the group buy date competly. I called three times to your house and was still not able to get a deposit. Unfortuantely I just can't call anymore times then that to chase for payments.
If you want you can purchase one now at Normal rates but the group buy rate can no longer be honored as it's way past that date. Unless a depost was charged to your car that I do not have record of (they were all declined) (hmm there is that 160 dollars again)there's not a whole lot more I can do. The group buy rate was $475cad (around $365 us) the regular rate is $549 (around $425) which is not really that much more.
Sorry to give you that bad news, I was wondering if you would eventually contact me(i talked to him on the phone twice and he looked up my name and said"its going to ship out next week").
Jim ETDRacing.com