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Re: Holley Files bankrupt again
[Re: dusturbd340W5]
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Filing bankruptcy does not necessarily mean they are broke. It is an easy way to stick all your creditors and come out clean.
For me the question is....How in the hell does Barry Grant stay in business with all the junk he sends out the door?
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Re: Holley Files bankrupt again
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Filing bankruptcy does not necessarily mean they are broke. It is an easy way to stick all your creditors and come out clean.
For me the question is....How in the hell does Barry Grant stay in business with all the junk he sends out the door?
Thing is, this is their second attempt. They already did the "stick it" hustle in 2008.
Gotta say, its not looking good for Holley. Expect some major changes, or a very possible chapter 7 liquidation filing like Crane just did (now owned by S&S Cycles)
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Re: Holley Files bankrupt again
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well, holley did do a fair amount of OEM work as well. every throttle body on a 3.9/5.2/5.9 magnum was made by holley. don't know about newer stuff though.
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Re: Holley Files bankrupt again
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I guess well all be using BG stuff soon!
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Re: Holley Files bankrupt again
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I guess well all be using BG stuff soon!
I'll part my car out before I will ever put anything from Barry Grant on it. 
BG = Barely Going.... 
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Re: Holley Files bankrupt again
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I guess that might explain why Holley had several engineering jobs on the SEMA website. Maybe they bailed out or got cut earlier? Still, I might take a job like that just to learn as much as I could. I wouldn't look for a house up there, or not anytime soon.
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Re: Holley Files bankrupt again
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Filing bankruptcy does not necessarily mean they are broke. It is an easy way to stick all your creditors and come out clean.
For me the question is....How in the hell does Barry Grant stay in business with all the junk he sends out the door?
Our quality has improved quite a bit over the last couple of years as times have gotten tougher in addition to overhauling the customer service end of it. Although we wont always be able to make everybody happy we do have a lot more satisfied customers then we have had in the past.
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Re: Holley Files bankrupt again
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Filing bankruptcy does not necessarily mean they are broke. It is an easy way to stick all your creditors and come out clean.
For me the question is....How in the hell does Barry Grant stay in business with all the junk he sends out the door?
Our quality has improved quite a bit over the last couple of years as times have gotten tougher in addition to overhauling the customer service end of it. Although we wont always be able to make everybody happy we do have a lot more satisfied customers then we have had in the past.
Tech, that is good news. I once got a set of BG carbs for a magazine article I was supposed to write. The carbs didn't work at all and when we opened them up to check it out we found a bunch of metal shavings inside.
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Re: Holley Files bankrupt again
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09/30/09 11:07 AM
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Filing bankruptcy does not necessarily mean they are broke. It is an easy way to stick all your creditors and come out clean.
For me the question is....How in the hell does Barry Grant stay in business with all the junk he sends out the door?
Our quality has improved quite a bit over the last couple of years as times have gotten tougher in addition to overhauling the customer service end of it. Although we wont always be able to make everybody happy we do have a lot more satisfied customers then we have had in the past.
Tech, that is good news. I once got a set of BG carbs for a magazine article I was supposed to write. The carbs didn't work at all and when we opened them up to check it out we found a bunch of metal shavings inside.
The shavings problems were a couple of years ago and we have admitted to and addressed what was done to help correct them on a lot of the other boards. Also around that time Barry cleaned house in the Tech department along with some other changes to better serve the customer.
Some of the changes made to deal with the shavings were:
[1] A timed ultra sonic wash machine was added to clean the metering blocks in.
[2] We found the gaskets were picking shavings up from the work surfaces so we built enclosed dispensors and mounted them above the benches.
[3] Assembly benches had vacuum systems added to them to pull any material away during htis process.
[4] The way just machined parts were being stored and carried throughout the building was also changed and wire meshed baskets were added.
We have added several other steps as well and continue to tweak on the QC end of things.
My office will randomly pull carburetors after being assembled and take them completely apart looking for even the smallest of things and then have meetings with the involved department managers to discuss these findings as well as letting them know where other areas have improved.
We have also added julian date codes tot he boxes so we can track when a carb was built and most recently implemented a paint and stamp system on individual parts so if an issue arises we can go direclty back to the employee involved.
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with all the present day carb builders like Quick Fuel that all there carbs come with billet metering blocks and billet base plates just plain out a better carb for less money than a plain ole Holley doesn't surprise me one bit Holley needs to get a clue.
