Quote from: Buckeye513 on April 26, 2013, 07:39:23 am

I completely agree with what you're saying Mitch I'd still for $1000 want a stamped not coned pipe and for it to be plated. I would love to own a HPR#19 pipe but I just don't have $1075.00 for the pipe and ride plus $150-200 to get up plated in nickel. I have $575 in my v1 Q pipe and its already plated. So 50% of the cost and 5500 rpm is great but in a drag race you're never at 5500 if you are you're on the losing lane anyway no matter what pipe you have. You mention porting my port work bore head work and carb bore is 1/3rd the cost of what HPR quoted me is there really 2/3rds more power potential from a port job? So say my port job gets me 65hp with my q pipe would Jerry's port job get me 85 or more? Because that's what the cost suggests.

These are the guys I love to pull up next to at the Hill....!! 



Hey Dez.. Keep in mind if you want to plate it down the road you will have to have it Hot Tanked and made really clean again at a radiator shop or someplace like that.  No plater will put it in their chemical tank after its been run.

I still haven't gotten one hint of an answer as to what's so special about a port job that makes it 3 times more expensive than another port job. The majority of port jobs are done off templates so one is basically identical to the next from my understanding of good machine port work.

I used to work for a company that would charge three times as much as pretty much everyone else for basically the same thing. Got away with it because they marketed toward low income poorly educated demographics. They go into the smarter more high priced high class parts of town and get laughed out the front door. This is the reasoning for my questioning not taking a shot at Jerry or anyone who uses him. Like I said before would love to have had him do my work his price was just way to rich for my blood. So mock me all you want but generally speaking it usually is the guy with the deepest pockets that is the fastest up the hill or down the strip. But then again I've walked many extremely expensive built drag bikes on my dads mildly built kfx400.