Good news and bad news... bad news, it looks like the headers are on indefinite hold. Good news, the owner (Marcin) took ownership of the SNAFU and plans to refund the deposits today. Allegedly the delay was due to the lack of a donor car, but I never recall seeing them come on here and ask for someone to stand in... as suspected, we went to back-burner when the big $$$ projects rolled in. Sucks, but it is what it is.
Before anyone gets bent out of shape about the group-buy imploding, please remember -- the headers were no closer to reality than they were when the last photo was posted of the CNC flanges. Otherwise, why would they voluntarily refund all deposits? You would have been waiting, and waiting, and waiting...
From MB-World...
Originally Posted by
Dsmed
Today I will be sending everyone their $100 dollar deposit back. The shorty header build was mention before winter as we were not expecting to be really bussy and figure we could get a car in the door and make a set, fit it, test it and reproduce. One gentleman offered to drop his car of before he left for the winter, but we missed that oppertunity and after he left we obviously were left without a car.
With that said I will be sending everyone their $100 deposit back today. At some point I would like to finish the headers, but without having a car at the shop that we can document a pre and post dyno on. I am unable to give anyone a finish date. I have a motor on a stand and 2 local 55k cars that I can move forward on with the whipple. I do not have a 32k at my disposal. We originally were going to try the whipple conversion on Rudy's 32 first but the down time of the car presented a transportation issue for him, so we began working on the v8 kit instead.
Marcin
It was a fun ride.