15 replies to this topic

[Klevdo2202]

Well, after purchasing a stub stack from Somerford (of which I received next day, can't fault somerfords delivery) I am a bit dissapointed with the quality....

Looking at the stack itself you can notice it has a rippled sort of effect round the rim.

Can I smooth this off with a dremel? or does this rippled effect help somehow?

Am I being a bit picky, should I expcet this for a £8 item?

[ANON]

christ that's bloody awful!! send it back.

[danny79]

i've experienced the same from their group 2 arches.

like yourself can't fault there service but the finish on the arches was terrible.

[Clubber Lang]

I have two fitted on my twin hs4's inside cone filters and when set up on the rolling road were a big improvement. As you cand see them when the filters are fitted i wouldn't worry too much

[dave-88_123]

it should be smooth and polished where the air flows same as a ram pipe looks poor quality

[Klevdo2202]

Thanks for everyone's input up to now...not sure what to do...

This was the only one I could find at £8 it was cheap I thought! compared to £25 for MED's one and £16 for a pipercross one from Minispares (which comes up with an unknown page error everytime I try selecting it)

[Klevdo2202]

Well, bit on an update, I decided to keep the stub stack and "port" it myself!

Not too bad for 10 minutes work....using 80>120>1000 sand paper!

[Bungle]

i'm sure mine looked better than that

[Klevdo2202]

Bad batch possibly???

I do hope you mean yours looked better than the first photo I took >.<

[surfblue63]

Well, bit on an update, I decided to keep the stub stack and "port" it myself!

Not too bad for 10 minutes work....using 80>120>1000 sand paper!

That's what I was going to suggest you do. Most of the cheaper ones are just rough casts that need a bit of work to get them to look good and be smooth. With mine I also put a bit of 400 paper on a flat board and sanded the rear face to ensure a good seal on the gasket on the carb inlet.

Edited by surfblue63, 02 July 2012 - 05:37 PM.

[dave-88_123]

that looks much better

[Klevdo2202]

Surfblue, I'll do that as well, thanks for the tip I was quite chuffed with the work, it didn't even take that long.


dave-88_123, thanks

[KernowCooper]

Old post but the one I got last week was even worse than the qualty of yours and required a fair bit of work

[jaydee]

I get mine from SC and the finish is perfect, you just have to be careful handling them as they're made out of thin alloy so its very easy to bend, but they're nice and smooth.

[Guess-Works.com]

I suspect you're getting what you pay for.... something like that pictured above look like a sand cast item, and to be honest I'd be expecting to pay less than a tenner for it...

I've not seen the ones from MED or SC, but I suspect that they've been machined from a billet of alloy using CAD