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10 hours ago, TurboTapin said:

There's also another Australian company that makes R32 billet final drives. I can't remember the name though. 

Neat Gearboxes
https://www.neatgearboxes.com.au/

1 hour ago, GTSBoy said:

Neat Gearboxes

 

1 hour ago, robbo_rb180 said:

 

Yes, that's the one! Thanks. I remember going Speedtek over Neat due to the price but clearly it didn't pay off.

Fun fact, PRP started distributing Speedtek parts back in August. Now there's no mention of them anywhere on their site. I don't want to speculate but all I can say is it didn't take long for that partnership to go awry. 

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6 minutes ago, TurboTapin said:

Fun fact, PRP started distributing Speedtek parts back in August. Now there's no mention of them anywhere on their site. I don't want to speculate but all I can say is it didn't take long for that partnership to go awry. 

Wow you're right!

Google still shows it, but when you click on it, it takes you to empty pages.

Amazing.

Yes, well, this is going to be a perpetual problem for people in the civilised world who have a good idea for a product, but choose to get it made in China because you can't beat the price. The quality out of Chinese manufacture is so wildly variable that it is almost impossible to trust it. You might have the world's best quality out of production from Factory A, and you might have it for a year or two, but suddenly, and without warning, your production is moved to Factory B and you don't notice because mostly it's just as good as Factory A. But then the nightshift at Factory B suddenly goes wonky and 50% of your product starts to have bizarre quality problems. But you don't know about it until they start failing in service. If you're not doing quality inspection sampling at a statistically significant rate, you might grab samples only from the dayshift and they all look fine and you can't tell why you're getting failures. Then, maybe you raise your eyebrows to the company doing they manufacturing in China and they respond with "no problem here" while secretly making changes to the back end, and maybe your production goes back to Factory A for a couple of months (unlikely, because they've got some new guy's stuff being made there and he's still on the honeymoon), or maybe the sack the nightshift boss or maybe you get your production moved to Factory C because they suspect that you suspect that things have gone to shit and that you will pull your production contract from them and they start to care even less.

The only way to produce in China is to have your own people there, accountable to you and you only. And that can't happen if you're a small transmission specialist. Hell, my company is massively bigger than these gearbox/diff guys' businesses and we don't have the resources to run our own operation in China (nor anybody from here willing to go live there to oversee it!!).

9 minutes ago, Dose Pipe Sutututu said:

Wow you're right!

Google still shows it, but when you click on it, it takes you to empty pages.

Amazing.

If ever you want a good laugh, go read the comments on PRP's Facebook post about the partnership with Speedtek. 

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24 minutes ago, TurboTapin said:

If ever you want a good laugh, go read the comments on PRP's Facebook post about the partnership with Speedtek. 

Got a link, I am keen for some morning entertainment

 

Bon took me a little while to figure out how to get a link from a Facebook post. Just to clarify the comments are on the original post about them partnering up with Speedtek. Not much love it seems. 

‼ NEW BRAND RELEASE ‼ We're thrilled... - Platinum Racing Products | Facebook

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My assembler called today and it's confirmed the 2nd Speedtek pinion is in fact toast. He assembled it quickly with the 4.08 final drive to confirm. Worst news is Speedtek isn't answering my emails. I'll give it another few days and then start harassing them by phone. 

Good news, my diff should be ready this week. He just had to finalize a few things as he put it to the side for another urgent project (He seems to prioritize funny car/top fuel work). I'm also still waiting on the delivery of another 4.08 S13 LSD diff to take apart this winter to presumably toss in another 3.3-3.6 final drive by myself as to learn. I will not be repeating this experience again.

Aww Speedtek, how I'm unimpressed... 

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21 minutes ago, GTSBoy said:

Fixed your post for North American English.

In Quebec we call them "sac bananes". Banana bag in english lol

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If you get a gear set of Neat just be aware that they are a Gleeson cut and need to be setup differently. I know a guy who killed one of theirs in 10 laps because his diff shop set it up like a normal helical cut.

The guys at Neat are very helpful and will explain the differences.

2 hours ago, Komdotkom said:

If you get a gear set of Neat just be aware that they are a Gleeson cut and need to be setup differently. I know a guy who killed one of theirs in 10 laps because his diff shop set it up like a normal helical cut.

The guys at Neat are very helpful and will explain the differences.

Thanks for the heads up! I'll take a Gleeson cut over a Chinesium Cut that Speedtek uses all day everyday. Jokes aside, for transparency, Speedktek did finally respond and seems ok with a refund. I'll confirm once it's done. 

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