jthocker
Well Known Member
I should have known better.
On my past airplanes I've used the Vetterman exhaust since they have been available, and they have always fit and performed flawlessly. While at Sun N Fun this year, shopping for repacement goodies for the RV8 I had just sold, I became mesmerized by a large shiny object. It was a chrome plated exhaust system from AWI (an advertiser on this forum). It was beautiful, it had a rather robust looking cabin heat muff, with the welded studs inside.
I had just gone thru the not enough heat to the back seat of an 8 saga where I finally used 2 heat muffs in series. The price difference seemed to be about $250.00 more for the AWI but maybe I could get by with 1 heat muff. So maybe 150 to 175 more now, and that thing was gorgeous.
I ordered one. It came. No CHROME! I call. They say, "that was just for the show, chrome extra!" Disappointing! Also the carbheat muff was missing.
They finally agreed to send me one.
Now fast fwd to last week. I attempted to fit this 4 into 1 system on my Carbed O-360 standard sump RV8. The 2 front cyl. pipes both were contacting the carb on each side.The collector was tight up against the bottom of the firewall. If the collector was to be moved down at all, the pipes would have contacted the carb air box. Clearly this thing would require major rework to make it fit. I'm not interested in that.
I was told that they had only done a fuel injected RV8 and that they didn't realize the exhaust wouldn't work on a carb.
So, the exhaust is on it's way back to AWI, and a check is in the mail to Larry Vetterman.
Larry is a great guy, an RV guy, stick with Vetterman Exhaust.
I should have known better!!!
On my past airplanes I've used the Vetterman exhaust since they have been available, and they have always fit and performed flawlessly. While at Sun N Fun this year, shopping for repacement goodies for the RV8 I had just sold, I became mesmerized by a large shiny object. It was a chrome plated exhaust system from AWI (an advertiser on this forum). It was beautiful, it had a rather robust looking cabin heat muff, with the welded studs inside.
I had just gone thru the not enough heat to the back seat of an 8 saga where I finally used 2 heat muffs in series. The price difference seemed to be about $250.00 more for the AWI but maybe I could get by with 1 heat muff. So maybe 150 to 175 more now, and that thing was gorgeous.
I ordered one. It came. No CHROME! I call. They say, "that was just for the show, chrome extra!" Disappointing! Also the carbheat muff was missing.
They finally agreed to send me one.
Now fast fwd to last week. I attempted to fit this 4 into 1 system on my Carbed O-360 standard sump RV8. The 2 front cyl. pipes both were contacting the carb on each side.The collector was tight up against the bottom of the firewall. If the collector was to be moved down at all, the pipes would have contacted the carb air box. Clearly this thing would require major rework to make it fit. I'm not interested in that.
I was told that they had only done a fuel injected RV8 and that they didn't realize the exhaust wouldn't work on a carb.
So, the exhaust is on it's way back to AWI, and a check is in the mail to Larry Vetterman.
Larry is a great guy, an RV guy, stick with Vetterman Exhaust.
I should have known better!!!
. I have all confidence that they will make it right. I have talked with several customers of theirs and have received good reports. Regardless of the research sometimes it seems that they are ganging up on me! There were some other concerns on the pipes but seems that they are addressing them as they arise. Unfortunate for us.
