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PostPosted: Wed Apr 19, 2006 11:19 am    Post subject: EMPI Products Reply with quote

This originally started in the Beetle forum, but really now belons in the Vendor forum.

Here's the original topic: http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=160625&highlight=

Please continue it here.
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 19, 2006 11:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Should merge that thread with this one Wink
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 19, 2006 5:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

or put a link in the final post there pointing here.
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 19, 2006 6:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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or put a link in the final post there pointing here.


sorry... i fix that. That topic now points here.
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 19, 2006 6:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Crickets...........Crickets

I hope he did not give up, I did kinda like his vigor.

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PostPosted: Wed Apr 19, 2006 7:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

never really thought about it that way i remember when i first got into vw's i bought one of those cool empi dizzy caps that was see through blue. well right from the get go it did not work right and turned out had a loose fitting in the #3 hole and did not make good contact with the rotor. well i chalked it up to the whole "you get what you pay for" deal and from then on have only used bosch parts not to say that they are all perfect either. but what i am getting at is that the cap cost me about 10 bucks and no i did not return it just because i knew it was not worth the hassle and that it was my dumb ass that bought it in the first place. sorta like gas scooters, kragen sells these crapy stand on things that work ok for about 100 miles then fall apart. what they fail to tell you is getting parts is a bitch and the level of workmanship to begin with is crap. again you get what you pay for. now i have heard good things about their repop weber idf carbs and have only heard a few bad reports which makes me wonder if these are being built from a different source and sold through empi with the empi name on it?
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 19, 2006 7:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Rule #1: Don't be a chump!

I'd run IDF Webers at full retail before I'd run HPMX's given to me.

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PostPosted: Thu Apr 20, 2006 8:37 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ten bucks says he doesn't show up in here again. Guess we won't get to find out if the guy even has an air-cooled VW in his possession. My guess is NO, since he openly admitted he's "still learning."

Another dead giveaway is trying to imply that renderit's (justified) dissatisfaction with that hang-down muffler is simply his own issue with the way the system fits on his car...my question is what good is a "hideaway"--which by nature is supposed to INCREASE ground clearance--if it's half an inch from the pavement???
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 20, 2006 4:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

My guess is somebody in the home office told him not to come back. And it ain't the muffler they are worried about...
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 20, 2006 5:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

^^That would further support my assertion that EMPI couldn't give less of a rat's fuck about the VW industry. They sponsored a few events between 2000 and 2002 or 2003, even the Renn Kafer class for awhile, and then, as a kick in the nuts to their distributors, opened the "Empi Outlet" which didn't last long, once word got out that they were undercutting their distributors' prices...so I HEARD. Or maybe they couldn't handle the truth of customers being able to come in and show them first hand how shitty they parts are.
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 20, 2006 7:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

yup, doesn't look like he's gonna show Rolling Eyes
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 21, 2006 2:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

i bought an empi reverse lockout trigger shifter and its total crap, Reverse lockout didnt work and my car would grind on reverse when shifting from 3rd to 2nd, now my stock shifter does it when going from first to second as a result of empi's F-up
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 21, 2006 2:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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i bought an empi reverse lockout trigger shifter and its total crap, Reverse lockout didnt work and my car would grind on reverse when shifting from 3rd to 2nd, now my stock shifter does it when going from first to second as a result of empi's F-up


Have you tried adjusting the shifter? There sone front to back adjustment.
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 21, 2006 3:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

yea ive had it all the way forward, all the way back, in the middle, even tried to torque it one way or another. ive taken it out and re-installed it a few times. same results as always, only grinds on occasion but makes me sick to my stomache when it does.
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 21, 2006 3:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Did you check the condition of the shift rod bushing?

It will probibly help if you replace it.
http://www.glenn-ring.com/tech/bushing_replace.htm
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 21, 2006 3:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Do you have the stock reverse lockout plate installed... correctly installed?
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 21, 2006 3:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

A famously hilarious acronym found in, I believe, Alan Willis' sig line:

Every Mistake Passes Inspection (EMPI)
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 24, 2006 9:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

i didnt have the stock reverse lockout plate installed with the empi shifter but just a plate, i do have it back in with my stock shifter and it still grinds. can i go from a cage style shift rod bushing to a round polyurethayne one?
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 30, 2006 6:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

did the muffler ever get replaced?

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PostPosted: Sun Apr 30, 2006 7:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

[email protected] wrote:
did the muffler ever get replaced?

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I think you know the answer to that question... Wink
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