Dear List,
As far as I can determine I am the only one that has had a quantity of U-20
timing gear sets produced because the Nissan supply as best I and others
could determine had just about dried up in 2002. Marc Sayer at one time
posted to this list that he was in the process of reproducing all of the
U-20 timing components and that he had an exclusive agreement with his
supplier. He also said that someone, guess who, had tried to go through
the back door with his supplier.
The gears that I had made were manufactured by a large QS9000 certified
timing component manufacturer in the Midwest. The intention was to do it
right with someone that had experience and not to rely on a back alley shop.
It is unfortunate that it is necessary for me to make comments to clear up
some lies and distortions that have been posted on a website regarding my
motives and statements about Nissan timing gears and those gears that I had
made.
Recent narrative found on a website with lots of pictures and claims and
places for prices but few prices indicated that aftermarket U-20 timing
gears are not necessary or needed. That position is understandable since
they sold aftermarket adjustable cam gears that they had made that wouldn't
even fit on Nissan camshafts. The site says something to the effect that
we have no need for parts without a track record but their own track record
with cam timing gears was dismal. Quality control there was done by the
buyers that found and reported the problem. It was also intimated that
whoever made the new parts supposedly created a phony problem about the
Nissan parts in order to sell parts as part of the oldest sales pitch in
the world. The purported problem was statements that Nissan parts were bad
or at least inferior to the aftermarket gears. The real problem is the
author of the narrative since no one else has had or reported a problem
with the Nissan or aftermarket parts.
They, the website purveyor, have also in the past complained about poor
quality for new Nissan valve springs (Get weak), rocker arms (Crooked) and
cams (Crooked). Just because the timing gears have been sold by Nissan for
"35" years, that doesn't relate to better or worse or good or bad parts.
No claim has ever been made by me or the US manufacturer or anyone that I
know of as to the relative quality between the domestic timing gears that I
had made and original Nissan timing parts as was intimated on the elsewhere
website. No one except for the website writer, as far as I can determine,
has indicated that there was a quality problem or discussion thereof with
Nissan timing gears. Maybe this is just another distracting effort or an
OJ type defense like the search for the bad piston culprit.
It is difficult to fathom why the Big-Time seller claiming more than a half
million dollars in inventory would pick on an individual that took the
initiative to get something made that was apparently unavailable. A normal
person would compare the two products technically and economically and let
those interested make a decision.
It seems evident that the author of the website narrative is concerned
about selling the inventory that he has because there has been no
widespread notification of the availability of the aftermarket gears.
Thank you for your indulgence and I hope that messages such as this will
not be necessary in the future.
Stan
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