markfsanderson
Active Member
Well,
I had hi hopes for doing my entire stage 1 next weekend, recording it on camera, editing and posting it for all to see and laugh at! But no go . . . So here's the score:
1) Last Saturday I ordered at round SE chrome back plate for my new Dewey Jelin A/C. Excitedly, I went down to the dealership when they called on Friday only discover that the chrome looked terrible. Chipped, rough, bubbly around the edges - edges that can viewed from the front or back. I rejected this part . . .it looked no better than a roughly used 2nd hand part that had been cleaned up. Ouch.
2) Last weekend I found a great deal for a SuperTrapp tunbable disk series slip on muffler for my bike. The price was just under 400 - the lowest price that I had seen else where was like 440 or 450. I immediately ordered this from Amazon, as they had this in stock - great! Well, so I thought. I received the box, which appeared to be in good shape and had SuperTrapp packing tape sealing the box. I opened the box, everything looked in good order until I started looking at the mufflers themselves. It appeared that someone had actually ran these mufflers for a short period of time as evidenced by what looked like hot gas discoloration of the mufflers interior. Also, each muffler on the side that was visible, looked like that it was purposely damaged around the rim on the wide side. Each ding was deep, bent metal and showed chrome flaking off on closer inspection. My heart sank. This looked horrible - there was no way I could put this on my motorcycle. My FXDC is no show bike, but putting garbage on it was not going to happen - for sure.
Well, I started asking around, and apparently this is either a factory anomaly, or someone re-packed them at the warehouse as new. Supertrapp still has a great reputation, as it did when I was quite a bit younger. But what I don't get is how did they get factory tape in a warehouse? I would think that SuperTrapp would never let that tape out the door . . . to ensure that its obvious when you get a factory part. I'm calling the factory on Monday, I've got someones name there that I can talk to . . . we'll see whats happening with them.
My solution was to find a local parts distributor about 100 miles away in Round Rock Texas, they'll have my new SuperTrapp Muffler there Wednesday morning. I plan on going up there to pick it up, inspect it on the spot . . . hopefully I won't have to reject this one.
3) No score on number 3 - Dewey Doesn't have my check yet . . .hopefully he'll have it today so he can send my A/C
4) The TFI Gen 3 arrived yesterday, I picked it up at the apartment office this morning. . . it looks like in its in good shape. No worries here . . . I won't score it in my column until its installed and working!
I'm seriously tempted to install my Gen 3 first . . . run it this week w/its current settings - typical stage 1 - as they put it. I suppose that would make it a bit rich on my bike . . . I have no modifications at all (except a K&N stock air cleaner and my mad scientist attempts to make the stock A/C cleaner breath better by machining some holes in the plastic part around the perimeter) . . . what do you all think - Install the TFI or just wait for the other parts?
Mark - Thanks!:newsmile026:
I had hi hopes for doing my entire stage 1 next weekend, recording it on camera, editing and posting it for all to see and laugh at! But no go . . . So here's the score:
1) Last Saturday I ordered at round SE chrome back plate for my new Dewey Jelin A/C. Excitedly, I went down to the dealership when they called on Friday only discover that the chrome looked terrible. Chipped, rough, bubbly around the edges - edges that can viewed from the front or back. I rejected this part . . .it looked no better than a roughly used 2nd hand part that had been cleaned up. Ouch.
2) Last weekend I found a great deal for a SuperTrapp tunbable disk series slip on muffler for my bike. The price was just under 400 - the lowest price that I had seen else where was like 440 or 450. I immediately ordered this from Amazon, as they had this in stock - great! Well, so I thought. I received the box, which appeared to be in good shape and had SuperTrapp packing tape sealing the box. I opened the box, everything looked in good order until I started looking at the mufflers themselves. It appeared that someone had actually ran these mufflers for a short period of time as evidenced by what looked like hot gas discoloration of the mufflers interior. Also, each muffler on the side that was visible, looked like that it was purposely damaged around the rim on the wide side. Each ding was deep, bent metal and showed chrome flaking off on closer inspection. My heart sank. This looked horrible - there was no way I could put this on my motorcycle. My FXDC is no show bike, but putting garbage on it was not going to happen - for sure.
Well, I started asking around, and apparently this is either a factory anomaly, or someone re-packed them at the warehouse as new. Supertrapp still has a great reputation, as it did when I was quite a bit younger. But what I don't get is how did they get factory tape in a warehouse? I would think that SuperTrapp would never let that tape out the door . . . to ensure that its obvious when you get a factory part. I'm calling the factory on Monday, I've got someones name there that I can talk to . . . we'll see whats happening with them.
My solution was to find a local parts distributor about 100 miles away in Round Rock Texas, they'll have my new SuperTrapp Muffler there Wednesday morning. I plan on going up there to pick it up, inspect it on the spot . . . hopefully I won't have to reject this one.
3) No score on number 3 - Dewey Doesn't have my check yet . . .hopefully he'll have it today so he can send my A/C
4) The TFI Gen 3 arrived yesterday, I picked it up at the apartment office this morning. . . it looks like in its in good shape. No worries here . . . I won't score it in my column until its installed and working!
I'm seriously tempted to install my Gen 3 first . . . run it this week w/its current settings - typical stage 1 - as they put it. I suppose that would make it a bit rich on my bike . . . I have no modifications at all (except a K&N stock air cleaner and my mad scientist attempts to make the stock A/C cleaner breath better by machining some holes in the plastic part around the perimeter) . . . what do you all think - Install the TFI or just wait for the other parts?
Mark - Thanks!:newsmile026:
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