Technical Offenhouser valve covers from Speedway

What state is Speedway located in??

 

Lincoln, Nebraska

 

This thread has gotten so far off topic, If you read my first post you would know I was just trying to warn other Y block owners about the problem. Most of the posts advised me to call Speedway or Offy so I did as that was a good idea. Speedway made it right and I posted that. I did start this thread without contacting Speedway or Offy but that was because I was not looking for a refund as I had already modified the item and thought and refund would have been out the window.

 

FYI, I believe Offenhauser allows Speedway to manufacture parts using the name. Sort of like a franchise.

 

What would make you think that? I have no connection what so ever with Speedway, just don't want to see any business being slandered by insinuation!

 

Why in the world would Offy do a silly thing like that? I would like to see some evidence that something like this has occurred. I cannot imagine them letting another Company have that kind of control over a product they themselves manufacture, has there name on it and they have no input at all into what that product is or turns out to be.

 

I believe I read it somewhere on Offys website.

 

Calm your ***s Francis. I was mistaken, it was actually family of the Offenhauser company that said it.
https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum...-buy-the-naming-rights-to-offenhauser.365658/

 

No need for you to get insulting about this, this thread doesn't provide any proof that that actually happened, just a he said she said type of posting and now being p***ed off as fact!

 

Dan Marvin is related to the Offenhauser company in some way. I can't remember how, the grandson or something similar. So yeah, it's not heresay.

Sorry If I offended you.

 

Dan Marvin is the grandson of Ollie Morris, a long time Offy employee and the designer of many Offy products. Speedway entered into an agreement to use the logo on certain products that are manufacturered by Speedway (que the Speedway/Chinese bashers here). The Offy line of products is still made on Alhambra Ave in LA and is available not only from Speedway, but a number of other catalog mail order companies. The misinformation and clueless Speedway haters here is appalling.

 

George "Ollie" Morris was Fred Offenhauser's chief engineer.
http://offenhauser.co/blog/owl-be-there/
So Roothawg was correct, as was Dan Marvin, as is denis4x4, that Speedway did in face enter into an agreement to use the Offenhauser logo on certain products that are manufactured by Speedway.

From Speedway's website, quite a number of Offenhauser brand products that are likely not made in California.

http://www.speedwaymotors.com/shop/offenhauser~1-10101

 

I am not implying in any way that Speedway is a shady company etc. I just thought they may have had a licensing agreement, as stated in my first reply. I buy a lot of stuff from Speedway, some good, some not so good.

I just wish Offenhauser would hurry up and start repopping the Caddy 3x2.

 

Great, there is good reason why Speedway Motors has been in business for so long, they fill a need to many for speed parts of varying price and quality as the customers want. The same as other vendors do and the bad vendors will not survive because customers will find other places to buy what they want that will provide these parts at better prices or of higher quality. I guess I got carried away by some of the posts by people bashing and some insinuating that they were doing things that were not right! People need to realize that if you buy the cheaper priced parts, you are not likely to get high quality parts........common sense tells you that!

 

****, I agree with what you have said. Now with that said this thread was about a set of Y-Block valve covers that the man paid $320.00 for. By "NO" stretch of the imagination did he pay for a cheaper part, as you refer to.

Speedway has been in business for a long time, I would just hate to put a figure on the parts I personally have purchased from them over the years. Most of my dealings with them have gone OK, no better and no worse. They certainly serve a purpose and do have very good prices on some of there stuff. More importantly though is the fact they do have a lot of hard to find parts. If for no other reason that serves us all well. In this particular case I think ( for what ever that is worth) that Speedway did right by "46international", and it appears to me he thinks the same as well by his post on the matter.

I mean what else could they have done? That they didn't do...

 

Exactly, the valve covers weren't made by Speedway just sold by them

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My post was not meant to bash Speedway but just a dose of reality. I am sure Summit and all the rest of the big companies do the same thing. Personally I am not comfortable with the big guys talking the little guys product copying it and selling it as there own product. I don't feel it is a very ethical thing they are doing. Working for Speedway I know for a fact that they are doing this and i suspect all the major companies do the same things.

 

Since we're so far off topic here is a great example of how Speedway sales a product then remakes it at a cheaper price.
I purchased a set of "fat fender/tri five" Speedway fenderwell headers several years ago for $500 bucks. When they arrived they were actually Patriot brand headers in a Patriot box slid inside a Speedway box. I recently purchased another set of Speedway tri five fenderwell headers for $325 bucks and they were in fact Speedway brand this time. At first glance they looked the same with 2 inch tubes and 3 1/2 inch collectors but the ports were round instead rectoval and the tube to flange angle were changed as well. Blower motor are the Patriots, Henry J are Speedway and $175 dollar difference .

 

In answer to the original question. I bought a set of Offy's from D&D for my 215/Rover motor. He told me they would leak if they weren't milled flat and that if I still wanted them he offered that service. He said he guessed the molds were getting so old that they didn't seal on the castings made from them?? After milling the gasket surface and polishing the outsides they look and seal great. Before the gasket surfaces were uneven and wavy. That is my experience.

 

Roothawg, here is something I posted in another thread regarding Offenhauser:

I visited their shop back in the '80s and asked about a 3 x 2 intake for my Cadillac that they no longer listed. The man I spoke to said that they couldn't make that intake anymore because the patterns for the cores went missing - so they could only cast solid intakes!

 

The Offy valve covers for my Y block needed m***aging at the corners where they interfered with some castings knobs at the front and rear of the interior head contours..... like the OP they leaked baaaad on the ends....a few minutes with the die grinder fixed the issue....but it was annoying considering the amount paid.

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YES! that is what I thought was the problem at first, so I cut them down with the a die grinder also! Then I figured I could not send them back when they still leaked, so I went ahead and milled them flat.
I really don't think I have the only pair like this, but no matter they don't leak now and I got a little money back. So all is good.

 

Buy speedway expect junk end of story close this thread now

 

BTT

I Just found this in the ba*****t..

I also found some T-shirts from the 80's. I think Bills wife gave them to me..

 

What's a bigger waste of time, you guys arguing about Speedway, or me reading it? Sheesh...