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March 23rd 2008, 07:49
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Interesting way to reshape 915 nose cone!
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March 27th 2008, 17:33
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Yeah, those engineers that design transmissions always add lots of extra metal just for fun...
 Jason
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If I could just get paid for my sleepless nights.... 1960 VW Bug UBRDUB Walkaround 1st Drag Run Dyno Run Oval Ragster-'57 Rag/'04 Boxster S
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March 29th 2008, 08:53
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From what i can see on that website, thouse guys dont have a clue about what they are doing. neither can they build cars or understand how things work. Looks like rednecks that works in a barn with the trial and error method.
hopefully nobody wil get killed from their stupidity 
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March 29th 2008, 13:18
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Quote:
Jason
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If I could just get paid for my sleepless nights.... 1960 VW Bug UBRDUB Walkaround 1st Drag Run Dyno Run Oval Ragster-'57 Rag/'04 Boxster S
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April 6th 2008, 07:06
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Very interesting to see how "professional" they work.
They take my "expensive" Porsche-shifter and put it in a vice without braces. They cut and weld the original 915 nosecone although their customer (the owner of the type III) bought the short nosecone from me. Seems they like to sell the service instead of using existing professional parts. They complain about the 24 mm ball that is on my Porsche-Style-shifter instead of calling me. Have 200 22 mm balls in stock and it would have been there within one day. Do they really want to make a good product or do they prefer to give companies like mine a bad name in the scene? Well known Porsche-tuners like Porsche-Kremer in Cologne use my shifters for classic Porsche race cars and they know what is good for a Porsche-gearbox. It´s really incredible what they write there. For me it´s a very unprofessional way of working and talking about other companies. I will look what they will write about me and will react, whenever necessary. Martin Bott Bug @ 5-Speed
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April 6th 2008, 07:48
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Pictures don't show...
Anyhow, this is not the way I know Walter from The Bug Box. I've been there once and the work I'd see was very professional. @ Martin, I assume you did contact Walter about this subject??? The Bug Box -1  -Luuk PS @ Martin, the nose cone you provided is still like new.  
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April 6th 2008, 13:45
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@ skywalker:
why should I contact Bug-Box when they prefer talking my products bad instead of contacting me and talking about a "problem"? The thing with the correct 24 mm ball on a Porsche-shifter would have been solved within seconds if they called me first instead of talking the things down. They had the Beetle shifter first (cause the customer liked the design of this one), so they should have known that this one came with the 22 mm ball. They did not order the parts. The owner of the car (who´s a very kind fellow) bought them from me when he visited me. He wanted my parts, but let me know during the project-phase that Bug-Box preferred to invent the wheel new instead of using my parts. He always talked positive about Bug-Box, but did not really understand either why they didn´t use the parts. But I think that this is a general problem. Talked to an elder well known tuner who´s name starts with "K" on the Maikäfertreffen some years ago. Showed him my 914-nosecone. He told me that they used to do some similiar things like Bug-Box (milling and welding) already 20 years ago to get the 901-gearbox into te Beetle. Told him that it seems that we had the same start with this stuff and that he´s still doing the same whilst I´ve engineered some parts that make the conversion much easier. Heard from a customer (who had such a welded) nosecone that he bought this 2 years ago and that this tuner "K" still sells the welded ones. The welded one was leaking oil, cause the temperature of welding bend the nosecone. Everyone can work as he wants, but if he likes to stay in the middle ages, then he should not start talking bad about others that really try to bring things forward. In the end it is mostly so, that the customer pays more for a customized original part, than for a new part that is being produced in a middle sized batch. Martin Last edited by Bugat5speed; April 6th 2008 at 13:48.
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April 6th 2008, 16:31
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PM send.
I think the KÄFERTUNNER name ends with a "S". 
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April 7th 2008, 03:03
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@skywalker,
no, no, it does not end on "s". The one you mean is more innovative than many others in the scene. The one I mean is leaning back on his glorious days (10 - 20 years ago). There´s nothing new in his assortment. But he´s very ignorant and thinking he´s the only and the best. But let´s stop here. Don´t want to give his name and it was only an example for the ignorance in the scene, that some (i do say "only some") of the colleagues have. I have a lot of customers in the Beetle tuning scene (tuners), who only take my parts if a gearbox conversion is being done. They always give me feedback, which is very opposite to that what I read on Bug-Box´s site. Martin Bott Bug @ 5-Speed
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April 7th 2008, 04:41
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You are right Martin, don't let us take over their behaviour.
The post I made in 2005 would not be any different if I had to rewrite it now. Did i say 2005? Hmm I really should start using the parts I bought. 
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