Based on comments made by Shayne, our neighborhood Australian affiliate, about the excellent full exhaust system made by M4 for the VTR, I picked up the phone and called the company to see if they still had any kicking around. I was told that they did not (discontinued as the VTR was not a very good seller in the poser and squid saturated North American market). I then asked if they would be open to making a batch of them if I could find say ten buyers and was told no. Oh well, I tried. If anyone knows someone with an M4 system they want to part with let me know....

 

If 10 sets isn't enough, I wonder how many it would take. If I had to venture a guess I'd say somewhere around 100, but it would be interesting to know their answer.

 

good try Mikstr.


hell, you'd think if they already did all the hard stuff, that running off a few copies would be no big deal. i guess they don't need the business or it's more trouble than we think.

 

Yeah, it really is a lot of trouble. When you are cranking out systems one after another of the same thing and have to stop, change your setup, get different parts, etc, etc it's a pain. Plus the chances of getting something wrong is really high, even when changing back to your big sellers. You don't want to hurt your cash cow just to sell a couple of systems.

That said, I'll bet they batch their production anyway based on an economical quantity. If you could figure out where that point is then maybe you'd have a chance at getting them to make some for you.

 

Plus the fact that the systems that they would be building for the VTR are already sold units versus sticking them in the warehouse.