Msd bankruptcy

[Monster Mach]

I hope they pull throw I like seeing brands that iv known since I was a kid make their way out of this shit

Full link:
http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/...facturer-msd-files-for-chapter-11-bankruptcy/

 

[black4vcobra]

Maybe they qualify for bailout...

 

[DaleM]

They need to start making go fast parts for Hybrids and look more at E85 market. The big carb days are history.

 

[CobraBob]

I heard this news last week. Sad news, but hopefully they'll pull through.

 

[DaleM]

I heard this news last week. Sad news, but hopefully they'll pull through.

As I heard the high HP cars at the Desoto race track while my son at the lake I thought if that sound would be like describing a record player to my grandkids one day.

 

[thomas91169]

What do they make that people use?

I can't think of a single msd product that I would use on a modern muscle or tuner car. If their market is to geriatrics still farting with big motors and carbs then they made their own grave.

 

[Fast Freddy]

^^^^ - They are the only ones i know that can turn a Ford GT's COP into a CDI

Pro Mag 44's are needed for blown alcohol motors too....

if you are not goin over 200 mph then this would be of no concern to you :rollseyes

 

[VirtualSVT]

Didn't they go on a buying frenzy a few years back? Probably shoulda skipped that.

 

[DSG2003Mach1]

Didn't they go on a buying frenzy a few years back? Probably shoulda skipped that.

the list of companies they own is huge and many of them appear to be shitty...like super chips custom tuning (whatever the hell theyre called now, pretty sure that changed again...not to be confused with sct). The bankruptcy information we've gotten (we service one of those little companies they run) and it looks like they were 1) restructuring the loans they took out to buy these companies and 2) trying to sell off a bunch of them. Sounds to me like theyre trying to get rid of all that crap

 

[STAMPEDE3]

What do they make that people use?

I can't think of a single msd product that I would use on a modern muscle or tuner car. If their market is to geriatrics still farting with big motors and carbs then they made their own grave.

The problem is the last owners bought a whole bunch of other companies. Mostly tuner crap like superchips and edge.
The diesel market is hard now with all the big fines the Gov is looking to hand out to tuner/DEF/EGR delete makers.

Fact is, had the kept making just the parts for the geriatrics as you call it they would probably be just fine.

 

[cobrakidz]

I know they have been around for a long time but I have never owned a single product they make. I always thought their ignition box looked ugly under the hood on cars, too big.

 

[brucesvt]

Just heard about this today really sad for local company to be going thru this. but hopefully they get thru this and come out better.

 

[STAMPEDE3]

I know they have been around for a long time but I have never owned a single product they make. I always thought their ignition box looked ugly under the hood on cars, too big.

I've probably owned 10 different ignition systems.

That included all the little things too, pills, 2-step, etc......

The geriatrics as someone calls it are plentyfull.

Thousands and thousands of bracket racers with 78 Camaros, 84 mustangs, 82 olds cutlass, etc....

Then you have hundreds and hundreds in each of like 8 divisions that the NHRA is divided into.
You have many "Stock classes"
Then the "Super" classes, SS,SG snd SC.
Super comp normally has about 150 dragsters at each division race.

MSD's market is big to the bracket/division racers, not to the street guys who go to the track a couple times a year.
Or to the newer model cars.

We mount the boxes inside the car and not under the hood.
Who cares about a passanger when you gut the interior? lol

 

[flS/R]

I wonder if the chinese company which makes the (cheap) imitations of the msd will suffer as well :shrug:

sad day when a long standing company goes under, hopefully they pull through

 

[Monster Mach]

We run them in our circle track car as they are the only ones to stand by their ignition boxes and make a damn good product

 

[G04cobra]

As I former owner of a handful of 5.0's, I always had an MSD cap and rotor and an ignition coil on all my foxes. I hope they pull through.