I really don't mean to sound so brash about this, but I am constantly on the phone answering questions and helping people out. That is time taken away from projects like this, and then to see someone who has talked to me and asked questions about their own setup telling my that I'm incompetent. Well I invite anyone to pull their wallet to the test. If you are as good as you say, then make the kits, sell them, create a business and at the same time field the calls asking for help. Lets see if your opinion is still the same after you do that.
Justin

 

While I can understand your frustrations with the post in this thread, this sort of response is not helpful to your business. A helpful vendor gets my business every time, one that is confrontational will never get my business.


Unfortunately, there are several vendors that cater to corvettes and similar vehicles on this site that apparently think that confrontation is an acceptable way of doing business.

 

73, I'm sorry you feel this way, but you are correct in part. It has become a pretty sad state of affairs that companies are not longer allowed to defend themselves. While I agree nobody should be confrontational, it also equally an issue that people "consumer" have such a high expectation of what they deserve that nobody can really completely help everyone. I try, I spend most of my days helping people who even buy their parts some where else and from companies who would never be "confrontational" but also offer no help or solutions. You can read through this thread and take it how you want, you will see that I was helping until I was called incompetent when I was explaining the delay. I will defend myself to this, I am also a consumer and I would never say this to another company who has done nothing but try and help. I will stay out of this thread from this point on, so that also means answering no more questions.
Justin.

 

Justin
Thanks for you responses explaining the situation.
I am very aware how much Time and money it takes to make a production ready item as aposed to a one off piece. Concerns around everything from fit for purpose, through to liabilities, profitability etc.
There is no way this would be a huge seller and as such you have to fit it into your overall business plans to bring parts to the market as we'll a sell those of other manufacturers.
There must be thousands of people hoping for certain parts of kits to come to market and the wait can be a Long long time. It's a hobby for us not a time critical process.
We are not all capable of building everything we need ourselves and if we were there would be no need for the businesses that support us.
I will still be keen to see the kit when it surfaces and will make my decisions about buying it once I can see what it all costs and how it would all fit together for my particular situation, budget etc.
Just Attacking the vender won't make it faster, certainly express your concerns and interest but what does it bring to the situation.
For those who have built their own setups it would be great to have seen some good write ups and experiences - that's what the forum is about (possibly I have missed them)
Just my thoughts

 

There is a balance certainly and defending yourself is warranted for sure.


Not pointing fingers at all, just reminding that others are watching and might not think this is helping your business interests...

 

No issues, it was as well as I timing issue with some other stuff going on when I read what had been written. Most of my day is spent helping customers with issues and battling fraud. It is very time consuming and actually unbelievable of what some people with go through to not pay for a part. Anyways we are still working on the kit, it has changed allot from the prototype parts and some of it will continue to change as time goes on and technology changes. I am not sure if anyone else had had a 6L80 running behind a Carb, but it is not an easy feat. There is allot that goes into the mount as well, and you hit the nail on the head with one of them, liability. That stops us from actually doing allot of items we wanted to do. For instance we had the ABS controller figured out of the 97-00 Corvettes that does not have a fix insight for it, and honestly they probably will not unless GM or Bosch steps in. Liability concerns kept us from selling it so it is just dust on the shelf now and wasted time. Anyways you should see something on the kit soon. We have been working on a solution to the paddles shifters and a new tu/td shifter.

 

73, believe me I get it, but I will always come to our defense when warrantied. I will also be the first to tell you we are wrong and going to do whatever I can to fix the problem. People have to look at all of it, if they can't, then that is not a problem we or I can solve. I am my harshest critique, but there is a point that I will step over that line with a someone if I have to, and I think this time is was warrantied with what was being said.
Thank You
Justin

 

I searched for a company that was making a cross member for the 6L80 four months ago with no luck. So I modified the one I had, It wasn't that hard with a plasma cutter and a welder. I moved the exhaust hole out 1.5 inches on each side.