[DeTomaso] Hawks Racing

[Ken Green]

I have clients with small business having products made in China and it can be a real nightmare.  If you're big and have someone there all the time, you can make sure they make the parts correctly.  But if you're small, you can think all the issues are resolved and then get a container of parts that are a little different and don't work.  
 
Also, while I totally agree that law suits are terribly abused here, companies here do have to worry that if they hurt someone, a lawyer will be hitting them with a million dollar law suit.  I don't think it's the same in China and someone may find some cheap aluminum for a wheel and substitute it.  If they put plastic in baby formula I would expect to find sand (or what ever is cheap that you can mix with aluminum) in wheels some day.  
 
Ken

--- On Sat, 11/14/09, Kirby Schrader <kirby.schrader at gmail.com> wrote:


From: Kirby Schrader <kirby.schrader at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Hawks Racing
To: "Daniel C Jones" <daniel.c.jones2 at gmail.com>
Cc: "Pantera REALBIG forum" <detomaso at realbig.com>
Date: Saturday, November 14, 2009, 1:53 AM



I'd like to comment on the 'cheap Chinese' thing I keep seeing and hearing...

I'm not defending the Chinese, but things are what you spec them as.

The Chinese build most every computer you touch your fingers to these days. I'm using an Apple MacBook Pro which has served me for over three years now with nary a glitch. Many of the components and tools used in the oil industry are Chinese built/manufactured.

Why? Labor costs.

If you spec the material and the build and manage the QA/QC, the stuff that comes out of China is first rate.

If you want it 'cheap', they'll build it cheap. It's really up to the probably American company that provides the specs (or lack thereof) for whatever it is being made.

Yes, I've seen some REALLY cheap stuff come out of China. Pipe wrenches that look like a dyed in the wool Rigid pipe wrench, but the first time you took a bite on a piece of pipe, the teeth all fell off...

I'm old enough to remember when Japanese stuff was considered cheap and crappy!

Sigh...

My for what it's worth today,
Kirby



On 14 Nov 2009, at 4:46 AM, Daniel C Jones wrote:

>> Anyone have any firsthand experience with parts from Hawks Racing?
>> Quality parts made in the US? Cheap Chinese parts of questionable quality?
> 
> Run away!  Cheap Chinese parts of questionable quality.
> They don't know the difference between a Cleveland and a
> Windsor and their 4" stroke cranks will not fit a Cleveland
> without expensive re-work.
> 
> Dan Jones
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