Yup...Most aftermarket parts sold under the Mopar name come with a Mopar
P/N# on them. The JR Headers don't. They weren't a hot item and Mopar
had dropped them a long time ago...it was overstock in their
(dusty) warehouse that prompted the sale of the left-over headers.
As for "branding" any of our trucks...heck, most of the parts aren't
even Dodge anyway - Taiwan, Japan, Mexico, etc.
- Bernd
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-dakota-truck@bent.twistedbits.net
[mailto:owner-dakota-truck@bent.twistedbits.net] On Behalf Of
jon@dakota-truck.net
Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2004 3:12 PM
To: dakota-truck-moderator@bent.twistedbits.net
Subject: DML: Who makes what (was: attn bernd. v6 headers)
"Josh Battles" <jbattles@bankfinancial.com> wrote:
: I saw both of those posts before I made mine, and my previous comment
still
: stands. I understand that they were made by "JR Headers." If you're
going
: to say that these headers aren't Dodge headers, that they're "JR"
headers,
: you might as well start telling us that the alternator you bought from
Dodge
: isn't a Dodge alternator, that it's a Denso alternator instead.
: The fact of the matter is that they were (are) sold over the Mopar
parts
: counter, and have a Dodge part number attached to them, and every part
: (except maybe the MP line) sold by Dodge is made by someone else.
The MP stuff is made by other people too. :-) (For example, I think
Edelbrock was responsible for the aluminum Magnum cylinder
heads, and I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't make most of
the MP intake manifolds too.) Heck, even for new vehicles, Dodge
doesn't really make much of anything - I guess you could consider
them designers and assemblers. :-) AFAIK, most parts on a vehicle
comes from outside sources. (I said "most", not "all".) ;-)
I'm not sure about the frame and the sheet metal; I wouldn't be
surprised to learn that Dodge does actually do their own stamping.
(There is a Ford stamping plant near me in Buffalo, so I know they do
some of their own stamping, at least.)
--
-Jon-
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