Lol...after i posted it..i sort of felt bad...but hey..its how i truly feel about them....i have since learned from a friend of mine ( by pm) that they did help him out with a leak or small problem for $42.00...i would have to think that after they (BG) have learned that the public has access to the O-RING kit for $15.00 bucks...they have decided to charge what they should have been all along so they don't lose out all together ( my opinion only)....a zebra doesn't change their stripes..they just debate if they are white stripes are black ones..
for the record i purchased a "KING ENDURA" pump about 4 years ago when i upgraded my 63 vw bug V8 tube car...the pump always made a loud sound ( out of the norm loud)..i sold the VW to a good friend of mine..He took it to the drag stip for the 1st time after driving it around to many cruise inns' i went with him to help him..he was new at this game and the bug was really quick..6.0's high 5.90's on motor in the 1/8 at 112 mph and very ill handling for the 1st 80 ft or so..( not a beginer car by no means)..anyhow he was warming the bug up on the return road and it just shut down "like it ran out of fuel...it would turn over,had great oil pressure,was getting fire..but would not hit..i noticed that there was no fuel coming out of the squirters on top the 1000 cfm sliverclaw carb ( which i purchased for $400 off racing junk..thank you)......
so i checked the fuel cell...FULL OF FUEL..the fuel pump was rated to support up to 2,000 hp and would hold up on a continous operation mode..for road race cars etc....
well the pump was designed with a external DRY BREAK screen filter..i took off the bottom of the screen filter and it was full of metal shavings..so much shavings that fuel would not pass thru the filter...
after getting it home and taking off the pump..you could see where the motor (impeller etc) was cutting into the housing causing metal shavings to drop into the filter...it looked to me that BG left out a possible spacer shim that should have been there...i found something that would space it placed it in there and the pump worked...it made a loud noise but worked.
the reason i bought the pump was to take advantage of the continous run capabilities and the power of the pump to run NOS without having to run a dedicated fuel system...after that episode i would not have trusted to run the pump to support NOS and motor at same time...of course i called BG and they would not hear anything of it because it was past the 90 day warranty even though it was a manufacture flaw...whewwwwwww....now you know the reason why i cannot stand them.,.the o-ring deal just finishes the deal...
i have had their main tech man in my shop and my house before..Mike Goins..Mike was sent to my place to look at a 10.5 camaro i had for sale..he was sent by a guy out of FLORIDA that dealt heavy in the muscles and race cars..he was on RJ all the time a few years back but i haven't seen him in a few years...,,his nick name was bubba..i cannot remember his screen name...
anyhow thanks for listening to my babbling..
Brian
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