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Welcome to my world, People. I've lived with him for 17 years and don't have to insult him to tell him he's talking in code.
Please go back and read the threads more carefully, DodgeGirl. None of us insulted him (well, OK, it looks like we had
one minor swipe at him from
achille, who called his comments "drivel"). What we've all been doing is asking perfectly reasonable questions about his product. He's not talking in
code, he's talking in
circles (responding to questions with factless half-answers at best) and/or not talking at all (ignoring valid questions altogether, even when they're asked repeatedly).
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He's always had trouble expressing himself and even more trouble putting it down on paper.
That's as may be, but we are asking simple, direct questions that do not require anything more than plain ol' transcription to answer. The questions that are being asked call for powers of self-expression roughly equivalent to answering "What time is it?" when wearing an accurate wristwatch. However, if he really has such extreme difficulty answering questions, perhaps he ought to have had you come in and answer the questions on his behalf earlier in the game, instead of turning people off with behaviour that looks and sounds an awful lot like that of a con artist. None of us is perfect, and in order to get along in the world, sometimes it's necessary to work around our imperfections and shortcomings. That applies here, so "he has trouble expressing himself" is neither a good explanation nor a good excuse.
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However, he is extremely intelligent and a remarkable engineer.
That is entirely possible, and if nothing else, he either is a very good weldor or he is careful enough to hire very good weldors. But being a remarkable engineer does not provide an exemption from the need for evidence to support one's marketing claims, nor from the need to respond satisfactorily to clear, basic, valid questions about the product.
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We tested his header against my Hooker headers
OK, how did you do that? Are we talking two different cars, or back-to-back Hooker headers vs. his manifold on the same car, on the same day, with no other changes?
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I'm pretty sure he's asking $350 for it including shipping
That's one of those easy "What time is it?" questions. He's been asked probably more than a dozen times now what the price is. He has ignored the question each and every time except once when he said it's "cost effective", and that's just not good enough to get the job done. If you're in the right neighbourhood and the price for his tubular manifold is $350 apiece, that's up in Dutra Duals territory (those work with regular starters, too, and there's a mountain of experience and data demonstrating their effectiveness and compatibility), and about triple the price of a new stock-type manifold. Where's the cost-effectiveness? Unknown until there's some real, valid support for the claims being made.
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BTW we are seeking a patent on it
Good luck with that process.
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the patent lawyers have classified it as a header and not a manifold.
A rose by any other name would smell as sweet. You can call it whatever you will, but in reality, it's a
manifold: Multiple runners dumping into a single transverse logpipe, with one or two outlets coming off that same transverse log. It is not a header (individual pipes coming together just before the collector, with no transverse logpipe).
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