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I can now confirm that I suffer from the same problem as various other people with the butterfly not opening up when it's attached to the car.

Steps Taken To Confirm;

You should be able to get your finger down the side of the ford vacum unit that operates the butterfly, This should move quite easily up and down, but if your's doesnt you may have a faulty manifold.

Loosen the front bolts of the manifold and try the above prodecure, If you have a faulty manifold you wont be able to move the rod in the vacuum unit quite easily.

Let me know how you get on, If you suspect you have a faulty manifold, please post here.

Regards

VR6Pete

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I have made Vince aware that there are some others with this problem and on testing the manifolds with a head on the bench he has found some more!

All is not lost though as mine has now been sorted by Vince who is sick by the way and still came in to get some work done!! So it would seem that the problem with the manifold can be fixed,just puts more time on things!

I'll be collecting the car early next week so i'll let you all know how that goes then!! :o

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Mine seems ok. Pete you need to edit your first post mate.

Handy hint - As I've said before - Suck the vacuum to see if your flap is turning. I presume it is ok if it opens and closes under vacuum (whilst sucking it).

Make sure all of your Bolts are torqued up before testing it..

Mine seems ok. :)

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Oh dear....not another one! Is this Schrick's way of showing their disdain for letting them out of the doors at such a bargain price?

What annoys me is I'm pretty sure Schrick have known about this problem for a while now because Vince mentioned jamming flaps to me last year!

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Oh dear....not another one! Is this Schrick's way of showing their disdain for letting them out of the doors at such a bargain price?

What annoys me is I'm pretty sure Schrick have known about this problem for a while now because Vince mentioned jamming flaps to me last year!

I hope you were talking Schricks at the time.. :P

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i'm starting to get worried on this one now, as i haven't even seen mine yet(except some piccies sent to me by mike tongue) as vince took it to be fully polished b4 it gets fitted! how does this stand me if its faulty, will i be able to get an exchange one now, or is it an easier fix than that by the hand of god(vince)?

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from what i've read he may be able to fix them I tried phoning him today but he was off sick. I dont think you'd have a problem sending yours back dubloke, but i'd be more worried about the fact i might have to pay out again to get another one polished ! I have no fingernails left !

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well, a couple have people have said i should have no worries really, as all the work is being done through stealth themselves. i haven't paid for the polishing yet, was gonna pay all in one go for the polishing/fitment/re-map when vince has my car in! reading all the stories of sticky b/flies though, it does raise some concerns, not least the fact after spending over 30k with schrick, that you would get a quality prouduct that works!

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well, i think given the probs with the vsr's so far, at the very least, schrick themselves should be covering the costs of any extra work thats necessary in fitting/removal of the manifolds in regard to them being incorrectly machined to start! i for one will not be willing to pay twice for polishing due to faulty work! i mean, who fits the manifold to see if it works then spends more having it removed immediately to be polished only to refit it again! why should we be footing the extra cost of incompetent workmanship with the cost of the manifolds to start with? what do you think guys?

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Morning all,

Good news, I've just spoken to Vince @ Stealth who informs me that the following manifolds are ok (whose are being fitted in the near future)

Antera309

Ollk_K

Dubloke

Mike Tonge

... and all Manifolds that Stealth have waiting to be fitted will be in a working order for when you have them fitted.

The manifolds have been sent to a UK Schrick Dealer and have been fixed and are now back at Stealth Racing in a working order, as for people who had received your manifolds via mail order from Stealth, I will be speaking to Vince on Monday for details on how this problem will be tackled.

Regards,

VR6Pete

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