Want to borrow some K&B springs
 

I'm working with a local company building some coil springs and I would like to price building a spring set like the K&B setup. They really need to measure them to build them just right so I'm looking for someone to loan a pair for a week or 10 days. Of course anyone willing to loan a pair of springs would be generously compensated for their use.

loaner??
 

Brian,

I think that your request is anything but realistic...

If an SVX owner has these springs they are on his/her car so if you want to knock them off as you do, at least purchase them fairly.....

I'll buy a set as will others, I'm sure but somebody has spent time and money to make a VERY limited use product (these SVX babies are not civics) and we are circumventing the efforts THEY made to help people like us....

I am willing to support free enterprise system but in this case, go buy a set of springs, change the rates a little bit (or something/ anything) to make them unique and then market them as you do with your company...

Maybe, its just being so blunt about the intent that annoys me

Hotshoe!!!!

Re: loaner??
 

You know, if these were available to purchase, I would buy a set today. As it is, many people have waited months to get them. I would like to have springs to sell next month, not wait six months to have a set to look at.
I know what it means to knock off a product. As a matter of fact, I hold a patent that a competitor decided to duplicate and I had to make use of a lawyer to get him to stop his patent infringement. Springs are not a patentable product for obvious reasons.
I can develop my own spring design in a matter of some weeks but is it really stealing to take say a set of Honda springs from some spring manufacturer and have some built like them, or maybe slightly different?
In fact I have been looking into importing something for these but a month into the effort, I'm still not much closer. If K&B was interested in selling to the US market, I would be the first in line. If not, I don't feel bad about building a similiar set of springs. They probably won't be identical, perhaps they'll be better.

well, for what it's worth Brian..

if I had k&b's on my car, I'd be without them for a couple of weeks in the interest of making widely avaliable an affordable solution for those seeking to improve their 3500lb boat's handling..

but i don't have them, so it doesn't do either of us any good..

sorry

-adam

Why not have them use the stock springs for measurments and adjust ride high and spring rate accordingly?

Re: loaner??
 

ummm.....Brian is making aftermarket parts for the SVX......AND YOU"RE GOING TO GIVE HIM A HARD TIME ABOUT IT?!?!?

when Subaru no longer makes the headlights (and Brian does), who you gonna call to get some if you need some? jeez....:rolleyes:

Re: Re: loaner??
 

yeah. that too.

-adam

Seriously Hotshoe whats your problem......Why dont you not give him ****.........

re: hotshoe
 

hey hotshoe, i'm running low on some, can you hand me some :D $hit that is. toilet needs some. i'm just kidding. you are just stating your opinion. go for it :D. free speech, free speech, free speech.

wait a minute, you're from canada, land of pot pies, maybe you can't have that there. :D j/k

oh well back to eating paint chips.

Re: re: hotshoe
 

heehee.. what time did you go to bed last night? :D

-adam

re: 8am
 

slept at 8am and woke up at 11am. whoops, glad you caught that, now it has been edited lol.

lol.. i went to bed at 4:30 this morning and woke up four hours later to come to work. i picked the wrong night to party.. :rolleyes:

-adam

Re: Re: re: hotshoe
 

:D i think its the paint chips. they're good dipped in tranny fluid.

yum....AT Paintchips.....gourmet

tacoma dude go for it if i was into aftermarket and had these springs I would give them to you in a second hey I'm sitck to stock but I can apreeciate haveing good parts for modding the SVX for those that want them. What is up this guys ass that gets on you about making some good product for people that want them I have been studiing the SVX since 2001 weel before that actually and I knwo what parts are available and that is hardly **** that is why I decided to find a low mileage anniversary ed. so it would be stick with stocka dn somwhat collectible. man this guy has a **** hair up his ass telling you you can't make some product becuae and obscrue company in japan that don't even really import legally to USA is making something the same?? Bull **** bull ****!! Go for it man support the USA!!!!