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alexiskai · 02-26-2021, 09:42 AM

Bob, your club is among the largest in the country. If the quantity were, say, 10 heads, and let's say the discount were 10%, do you think it would be easy to put together an order? Alternatively, does your club have enough in the bank that it would consider buying the heads in advance and selling them as orders came in?

I wonder also if clubs on the west coast would be interested in acting as de facto dealers. Shipping a head direct from Tod or from one of the east coast dealers is expensive and time consuming. If you could pick up a head from a club in Seattle or the SF area, and your money was going to the club, folks might like that.

People seem to be assuming that Tod is "cutting out" the major vendors, but do we know that? Maybe they don't want to stock these higher-compression heads, or they want too much of a discount. Don't assume this is an approach he hasn't tried.

02-26-2021, 09:42 AM	#7
alexiskai Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2018 Location: Mebane NC Posts: 2,353	Re: An interesting idea regarding cylinder heads. Bob, your club is among the largest in the country. If the quantity were, say, 10 heads, and let's say the discount were 10%, do you think it would be easy to put together an order? Alternatively, does your club have enough in the bank that it would consider buying the heads in advance and selling them as orders came in? I wonder also if clubs on the west coast would be interested in acting as de facto dealers. Shipping a head direct from Tod or from one of the east coast dealers is expensive and time consuming. If you could pick up a head from a club in Seattle or the SF area, and your money was going to the club, folks might like that. People seem to be assuming that Tod is "cutting out" the major vendors, but do we know that? Maybe they don't want to stock these higher-compression heads, or they want too much of a discount. Don't assume this is an approach he hasn't tried.