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not a fan at all of BG but I hate to see any performance company go down.

I hope this helps Holley's situation as I believe it's been pretty bad there also

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not a fan at all of BG but I hate to see any performance company go down.

I hope this helps Holley's situation as I believe it's been pretty bad there also

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Same here............. it happens when work goes
across the pond and people dont support USA..
sorry I shouldnt go there
Sorry they have to close the doors

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The economic situation has put the company in the position of not being able to find working capital needed to continue operations after 26 years of business.

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just so you know holley is in bankrupcy as well!!

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It seems to me that the carb business has been on the down hill for years now.

Now with Nascar announcing FI for next year, I imagine that is big news in the carb business?

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x 2 ...and this is why that operation should be producing and marketing a reliable and affordable DPFI system for the aftermarket.

THERE is more-to-this situation than is what being said now ...

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Same here............. it happens when work goes
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sorry I shouldnt go there
Sorry they have to close the doors

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Same here............. it happens when work goes
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sorry I shouldnt go there
Sorry they have to close the doors

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"Its the economy stupid" to quote a famous president. I own a business and they are all hurting. Real unemployment at over 19%, people just don't have pocket money anymore and with gas over $3 a gallon and climbing its getting worse. I dont care how long you've been in business you need to be able to borrow working capital, those banks we bailed out now want to see every facet of your business before even considering it. And then "unless you don't need the loan" will turn you down. When states (Wisc, Ohio, Mich, etc) start going bankrupt its a lot worse than what your getting on your news station.

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ain't that the truth!! well put

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just so you know holley is in bankrupcy as well!!

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not sure if thats 100% correct. I remember a while back Monte explained what was going on with them.

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I figured this was gonna happen, i had ordered a belt drive fuel pump in the summer and never got it. So glad i got my money back and got a ron's pump instead...

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All I can say is better Barry Grant than the real BG racing

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You got that right,we all hate to see any company go down and people lose their jobs but with this economy in such uncertain times,look for many more businesses to fail or down size.We are very fortunate at BGR to actually see an increase at the shop since I've been there full time.I still believe with our basic philosophy of customers becoming our friends and our friends becomming our family and the group of BGR racers at the shop are what sustain us.We like to thank and say we appreciate everyone who has dealt with us and we will always remain humble and respectfull,without the great relationships we would just be another struggling company.

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The economic situation has put the company in the position of not being able to find working capital needed to continue operations after 26 years of business.

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NOT a very well operated biz ...IMO

AFTER 26 years ....you should have A TON of working-capital to carry-you-through the lean-times.

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Theres plenty of USA based company's such as Magnafuel and Product Engineering, doing just fine.
BG was their own worst enemy.
There customer service was horrible and their product was even worse.
Not really surprised at all.

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You got that right,we all hate to see any company go down and people lose their jobs but with this economy in such uncertain times,look for many more businesses to fail or down size.We are very fortunate at BGR to actually see an increase at the shop since I've been there f ull time.I still believe with our basic philosophy of customers becoming our friends and our friends becomming our family and the group of BGR racers at the shop are what sustain us.We like to thank and say we appreciate everyone who has dealt with us and we will always remain humble and respectfull,without the great relationships we would just be another struggling company.

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Man Bob I nearly had a heart attack when I saw this thread. I sure am glad its not BGR. One of these days I am still planning on dragging my junk over to your place to check out the cage and make some improvements-Randy

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I have known going back to the early 90's he made lousy stuff

I seen countless breakdowns and poor customer service from them , its amazing he lasted as long as he did

To blame this on anything other than that is foolish

Your best source of advertisement , is your customer ..

And they have been upset for over 10 years

Its his fault , no one elses

He sold junk and it caught up , finally

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I'm sorry he went out of business. Everything I purchased from them was excellent and never had an issue with any of it.

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I have known going back to the early 90's he made lousy stuff

I seen countless breakdowns and poor customer service from them , its amazing he lasted as long as he did

To blame this on anything other than that is foolish

Your best source of advertisement , is your customer ..

And they have been upset for over 10 years

Its his fault , no one elses

He sold junk and it caught up , finally

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I'm sorry he went out of business. Everything I purchased from them was excellent and never had an issue with any of it.

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I have known going back to the early 90's he made lousy stuff

I seen countless breakdowns and poor customer service from them , its amazing he lasted as long as he did

To blame this on anything other than that is foolish

Your best source of advertisement , is your customer ..

And they have been upset for over 10 years

Its his fault , no one elses

He sold junk and it caught up , finally

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I'm sorry he went out of business. Everything I purchased from them was excellent and never had an issue with any of it.

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Same here ... sad to hear...back in the day BG is all anyone ran in my neck of the woods anyway

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i wonder how long it will take before my Mighty Demon 850 becomes "collectable"

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I think they were worth more brassed out of the box anyway

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Same here............. it happens when work goes
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sorry I shouldnt go there
Sorry they have to close the doors

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"Its the economy stupid" to quote a famous president. I own a business and they are all hurting. Real unemployment at over 19%, people just don't have pocket money anymore and with gas over $3 a gallon and climbing its getting worse. I dont care how long you've been in business you need to be able to borrow working capital, those banks we bailed out now want to see every facet of your business before even considering it. And then "unless you don't need the loan" will turn you down. When states (Wisc, Ohio, Mich, etc) start going bankrupt its a lot worse than what your getting on your news station.

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Hey buddy... you call me stupid and we are gonna have
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Same here............. it happens when work goes
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sorry I shouldnt go there
Sorry they have to close the doors

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"Its the economy stupid" to quote a famous president. I own a business and they are all hurting. Real unemployment at over 19%, people just don't have pocket money anymore and with gas over $3 a gallon and climbing its getting worse. I dont care how long you've been in business you need to be able to borrow working capital, those banks we bailed out now want to see every facet of your business before even considering it. And then "unless you don't need the loan" will turn you down. When states (Wisc, Ohio, Mich, etc) start going bankrupt its a lot worse than what your getting on your news station.

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Hey buddy... you call me stupid and we are gonna have
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"Its the economy stupid" to quote a famous president. I own a business and they are all hurting. Real unemployment at over 19%, people just don't have pocket money anymore and with gas over $3 a gallon and climbing its getting worse. I dont care how long you've been in business you need to be able to borrow working capital, those banks we bailed out now want to see every facet of your business before even considering it. And then "unless you don't need the loan" will turn you down. When states (Wisc, Ohio, Mich, etc) start going bankrupt its a lot worse than what your getting on your news station.


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Hey buddy... you call me stupid and we are gonna have
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OK we meet at the Mopar nats and since I was challanged it will be 68 hemi RR radio antennas at two paces. Actually, it was a quote and not personnel. Any business thats goes down decreases the number of customers. They catered to a segment and now that segment is either gone or looking for a new supplier. I never used a BG product so have no first hand knowlege but a lot of people did. Even the foreign junk has a market or it wouldn't be sold. The fewer businesses out there for us to select from the worse it is for us, not better. Its competition that created this great country of ours and the gov'ment is killing it.

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Theres plenty of USA based company's such as Magnafuel and Product Engineering, doing just fine.
BG was their own worst enemy.
There customer service was horrible and their product was even worse.
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my first thought too. both companies have great products and great service. BG had neither. BG's refusal to sell o-rings for their leaky pumps was the last straw for me.
i feel bad for the former employees.

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Wasn't that on a car Honus Wagner used to own?
I think it's off a Hemi also $$$$$$$
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OK we meet at the Mopar nats and since I was challanged it will be 68 hemi RR radio antennas at two paces. Actually, it was a quote and not personnel. Any business thats goes down decreases the number of customers. They catered to a segment and now that segment is either gone or looking for a new supplier. I never used a BG product so have no first hand knowlege but a lot of people did. Even the foreign junk has a market or it wouldn't be sold. The fewer businesses out there for us to select from the worse it is for us, not better. Its competition that created this great country of ours and the gov'ment is killing it.

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Heck! Since I will probably go out first round, I was looking forward to the dual. I ran a BG mighty Demon for a few years with no issues. I think the complaints were overblown a bit ( carburation problems rate #1 for misdiagnosis ). I'm not saying this caused their demise, but bad info traveling at the speed of light on the web can sink a small company in short order - and I am as guilty as others on this subject.

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AFTER 26 years ....you should have A TON of working-capital to carry-you-through the lean-times.

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Theres plenty of USA based company's such as Magnafuel and Product Engineering, doing just fine.
BG was their own worst enemy.
There customer service was horrible and their product was even worse.
Not really surprised at all.

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too, he was his own worst enemy, I bought one of his carbs back in 1999-2000, It was the carb they recammended, after having issues with it right OOTB i called them, all i got was the runaround & they tell me to send it in for tuneing & they wanted more $$$$, So in NO WAY do i feel sorry for someone like that, he deserves everything he got, We need to remember that, back in the day when times were hard, If you "screwed" someone ONE time it came back to bite you in the ass big time, many people have had the "GET RICH QUICK" mentality, it may have worked in the last 20 odd yrs., but now people are getting fed up & going back to the old thinking when it comes to shelling out $$$ for stuff, thats where companies like BG who pulled there stunts are NOW catching up with them.

Holley is still a great company, & now that times are getting tough, there doing what needs to be done when keeping there customers happy, I know this 1st. hand, they took care of me about 4 months ago & sent me a "brand new" carb from a junker e-bay 650dp i bought that the plateing was falling off, they could have told me tuff luck, but they didn't, good for them.

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The HOLLEY bankruptcy filings, are completely over, all creditors taken care of, business restructured and looking very good. The problem was, when all those companies were bought, business was booming. With business slow, there was not enough cash flow to pay the interest on the loans. HOLLEY was never in danger of going under, it just got lean. Like I said though, things are good. Many laid off employees were brought back. We are once again paying contingency in certain areas. We are back on a truck at all NHRA national events and at many divisional races. Our own 18 wheeler and smaller trailer will be on the road this year, plus they bought me a Sprinter van, decked out in Holley livery. So again, Holley is in good shape and will likely have a rep at an event near you.

Many new products have been released in the past year, mostly our new Dominator EFI, but we also have new carbs, new fuel pumps, updated nitrous stuff, lots of LS based parts, new manifolds and are working on many other new things.

Like my boss told me "we still make millions of dollars a month, just not as MANY millions". We also now have a CEO who is a "real" car guy and that helps. He understands and wants to make, what the people want. He is also "hands on", competing last year in the Optima Challenge, as well as being on Power Tour.

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Yeah, just because a company files bankruptcy doesn't mean there going under, could just be recooping, many businesses have been in that condition now & again but still in business, Holley owns alot more then some may think, but they obviously know what it takes too stay in business, good customer service is one of them .

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The HOLLEY bankruptcy filings, are completely over, all creditors taken care of, business restructured and looking very good. The problem was, when all those companies were bought, business was booming. With business slow, there was not enough cash flow to pay the interest on the loans. HOLLEY was never in danger of going under, it just got lean. Like I said though, things are good. Many laid off employees were brought back. We are once again paying contingency in certain areas. We are back on a truck at all NHRA national events and at many divisional races. Our own 18 wheeler and smaller trailer will be on the road this year, plus they bought me a Sprinter van, decked out in Holley livery. So again, Holley is in good shape and will likely have a rep at an event near you.

Many new products have been released in the past year, mostly our new Dominator EFI, but we also have new carbs, new fuel pumps, updated nitrous stuff, lots of LS based parts, new manifolds and are working on many other new things.

Like my boss told me "we still make millions of dollars a month, just not as MANY millions". We also now have a CEO who is a "real" car guy and that helps. He understands and wants to make, what the people want. He is also "hands on", competing last year in the Optima Challenge, as well as being on Power Tour.

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That's good, I was wondering how it all panned out for them, I figured that it must of been over since it seem's like they are putting money back into the company for R@D, new product's and advertising.

as far as BG, never bought anything from them but many of my racer friend's have,, and that's why I have not.

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Hard to say... it's tough to still ask the regular price for a product for which there's nobody to stand (or hide ) behind the warranty any more.

I took a look at Jeg's BG inventory and noticed it was already looking kind of "spotty" on certain parts and carb models that I would have thought would have been common stocking items. BG was probably having problems keeping up inventory before deciding to pull the plug for good.