Hot Rods Speedway Cloned STROMBERG 97 Thread

you can get good rebuilt 94's for under 200 a piece, there's a guy at every pomona swap meet with them, and a quick google search came up with rebuilds as cheap as 155 through vintage speed. for 97's c&g ford has rebults for right around 350 with no core charge.
or buy a crusty 94 for $20 or a 97 for under a hundred and a $30 rebuild kit and do it yourself

 

LOL. If I were close enough Pamona to get 97's there at the swap, do you think I'd have had to wear my winter riding gear on the way to work this moring?

 

I have 25 rebuilt 97's sitting in my ba*****t..was waiting to bring em out to the swap meets this year. I personally think it is a tasteless reproduction, I wouldnt want one anywhere near my car. that being said, I have a to of respect for certain products in the hot rod after market. This product just seems to fall a bit short of what a quality reproduction piece should be.

 

The Hirohata was a NEW car when it was built, was it not?
And does your shop, or Jimmy's/B***', have the word STREET in it's ***le.....
Look up the terminology "in general".....and where did I say "real cars"????

Jeez....I'm not talkin' of shops like yours.....they are few and far between, really....just common here. The "hotrodding/old car restoring" world is much larger than the HAMB.....trads style rods/customs are still a small piece of the automotive pie.

 

+1

 

I'll sell rebuilt large logo for $299.00 plus shipping if you buy three or more..Is that a deal or what..You get the real thing built by a quality builder. How many do you need..
Duane..
"BUY THE REAL THING".....

 

Ever wonder why many of the packages from Speedway are retaped when you recieve them. The reason they are will show you what he thinks of you.... the consumer!

 

well there you go guys..now whats the incentive to buy cheap **** you have no clue if it will work, last or **** up your mill for good..?

$299 for the real thing

 

I'll say it one more time. Your going to have to carry chopsticks in the tool box to work on these.

 

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Maybe its just me, but how do you feel about a company that opens merchandise from a manufacturer....removes components out of the package that is the manufacturers intention for you the consumer to have....reseal the box, and sell it to you with those components missing, and gladly offering to sell you those components seperately. Thats just one of the "stealthy" methods that is used by them. Might not be anything wrong with it.....check your boxes and then see how you feel!
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Ah, now I understand.

 

Greetings;
I sent a private message to you but I was too dumb to figure out how to send a pic using url stuff.... so I'll try this. These are mock-up pics.
Thanks

gene235@msn.com

 

thats a very common procedure in retail,one reason its done is to try and hide the person they are getting the part from so you must go back to the person the parts came to you from.cant blame Speedy for using comon sense........now its about how good are his parts

 

hotrodch***is, if indeed speedway is selling this product without a country of origin then they are in breach of US import laws. it has to be marked ON the part itself (hence made in china stickers, it ain't because they're proud) Speedway should be required to answer to the proper authorities regarding this.

strombergs97! I applaud you! There is no case where even if one of these speedway carbs comes through and works as designed where it will out perform the WORST case quality rebuild. It has been shown that the biggest flow inhibiter on a stromberg 97 is the throttle shaft. speedway's new carb uses OVERSIZE shafts (same as vintage speed) that lower the flow of the carb. At worst case the rebuilt carb will have the same oversize, at best it won't require it. (the 5 rebuilds I've done myself didn't require them)

nobodies hero, what were you going to ask for your rebuilt 97's??

 

Would you be willing to send yours to Jere... as a service to the community?

What's the story with the "Demon 98's" btw? Anyone tried them yet?

edit... look no further http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=235878

 

Wow, $299.99 a pop for originals?????!!!!!! You've got a customer. I'm not kidding though, the last time I called around looking for Strombergs (and that was when I needed 8 for Helen Wheels) the LOWEST I was quoted was $450 per. We paid over $4000.00 for those when all was said and done! Where were the $299.99 prices a year ago??

 

HUH? Its not that hard to understand

Omar

 

a year ago was before the market crash. prices peaked about then

 

Man, I've got 3 97s, rebuilt, run and tested on a flattie, then taken off and shelved a month ago I'll probably end up letting go for $250 each! LOL!

WTF is up with these huge prices?

I was wanting to run a progressive linkage on a 318 Poly, but 97s are just a tad too small to do anything but a direct linkage with.

Back to my WW plan...

Edit: Just went back and read this. Sorry if I made this thread seem like a *******ed garage sale.

~Jason

 

I kind of think this thread, like a lot of others lately, is just getting a bit out of hand. Personally, I think Kevin was doing a great thing by offering these up the way he is. I also think he's received some honest input here as well. But, I also think that sometimes, some of you people don't even THINK before you speak. You just spout out whatever is on your mind just so you can get a word in on the topic. Rediculous.

Help Kevin, don't give him flack or provide non-constructive critisism. It's a waste of everyone's time and pretty distasteful at that.

Thank you Kev' for doing your best with this. Let us know how it turns out. Hopefully you'll continue to get some good feedback. I know you'll give us an honest and straight up review in the end of all this.

 

Scooter,
I think you are wrong, and your avatar proves it. It has nothing to do with carbs, or traditional hot rods. In fact that movie was made after 1964.

 

Dammit Dan! Now I have to change it...

 

Whew! I thoght I was gonna have to buy the grant models.

$275 each for HAMB memebers...not bad.

 

One of the best posts in this thread! Thanks

 

I hear ya Kevin, never have the 97's been cheaper, I'm guessing all the other on the market drove the prices down a bit. That being said a repop is a repop and rebuilt is just that. I have had them rebuilt with good and bad luck. I'm not going to name names but got some back that were just ****!! I have to say the guys rebuilding them aren't getting rich off the rebuilds. I know because I can and do rebuild mine 97',s81's,2100's or 94's done all of them . First you got to find a carb that not all F'up and sometimes you can use two to make one ,rebuild kits aren't that cheap and the time to do it right, priceless. My hats off to you guys that do rebuild them and some rebuild are Better then the original job. They leak, seep call it what you want. I'm glad they came out with the new ones being Mr Clives or Speedy Bills . I bolted the carb on hooked it all up didn't mess with a thing and a few min's later she was purring like the original 97 that I took off. I didn't have a chance to drive her and was freezing my *** off 27 degrees in the garage plus had to go sit outside for a few hours at a HS soccer game Burrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Yep but still can't find cheap tin

 

Right on Scooter!!!

 

So Case closed the repops work?

 

ha ha !! strombergs made in china with no logo? wtf , i think id run a demon 98, and that will probably happen sometime around hell freezing over, i like 97s a-lot ,but i will run 94s before i run cheapo 97s

the whole history of the 97 starts with ford ****in the stromberg corp. this is just another chapter!

 

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