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Re: [T3] Mofoco heads problems....


On 26 Oct 2001, at 17:58, Mark Fuhriman wrote:

> You seem to imply that the MOFOCO casting is better than what you find
> elsewhere.  Is the basic MOFOCO casting better than what Berg uses?  

I think Berg makes the point in one of his older catalogs, that 
anything you can buy anywhere, he can buy also and sell it at a 
profit. Virtually all of this stuff is available to anyone in the 
business, so it's just a matter of who bothers to carry it.

It is EXTREMELY unlikely that MoFoCo could afford to pay 
someone to make a casting, etc, just for them. Consider the forged 
counterweighted cranks that Berg had made 10-15 years back; 
they cost over $1000 at that time, and it was mostly because of 
the cost of making a small custom run of forgings by the OE 
supplier to VW.

In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if MoFoCo didn't even do most of the 
machining on these heads, but I'd have to admit that the 
description of the work sounds familiar.

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Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org
Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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