RE: Re: RE: Who makes what (was: attn bernd. v6 headers)

From: Bernd D. Ratsch (fasstdak@hotmail.com)
Date: Wed Apr 14 2004 - 21:44:21 EDT


There are none left in inventory...just whatever some dealerships have
sitting around.

- Bernd

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-dakota-truck@bent.twistedbits.net
[mailto:owner-dakota-truck@bent.twistedbits.net] On Behalf Of Chad Evans
Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2004 6:52 PM
To: dakota-truck@dakota-truck.net
Subject: DML: Re: RE: Who makes what (was: attn bernd. v6 headers)

Bernd they are still sold through mopar. they are in the new mopar
catalogs
still.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bernd D. Ratsch" <fasstdak@hotmail.com>
To: <dakota-truck@dakota-truck.net>
Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2004 6:11 PM
Subject: DML: RE: Who makes what (was: attn bernd. v6 headers)

>
> 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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