Originally Posted By Laurens
Originally Posted By Robbie
A more humble response from Empire was required!!!!!


You're 1000% right !

To my opinion the people from Empire need to be ashamed immensely !!

Me, my wife, and our dog can call ourselves very lucky that we're still alive.
This is the most dangerous construction, special on a car like this with ZERO protection.

You would think you get a very quick email from Empire that they aware of the problem and an advice NOT to drive any more meter with this stuff.
And they would tell you that they working on a safe solution as soon as possible.

But NO, even till now you hear nothing from them, they only say that the breaking forces need to be extremely high till it breaks and thats not possible with a M3W. (see the post of Paul Jacobs).
That's the same as telling lung cancer can't come from smoking.

When I got my risers, the ones on Gulf fitted like it should be.
But in my wife's car they didn't fit at all.

I got the recommendation to go to a local machinery shop and let them make the tapers smaller !
How much ? Nobody know.
This because MMC uses two different sizes of taper holes !
So will my new machines tapers fit the hole ?
How much chance you give me ?

Yes the solution which Dan Lockwood discribes could be a better solution (but I'm not an engineer).
To mine opinion the safest way is to use the comfort kit from MMC.

Empire charged me a lot of money for two VERY UNSAFE products.
If I look to the solution who Dan describes this would cost Empire only pennies.
The postage would be almost more expensive for them

It seems this is relevant:
Originally Posted By PaulJ
You are more than welcome Nik, sorry about the instructions, Bill and I modeled them on doing my car initially, and as we know all cars are slightly different, anyway I'm really pleased it went on without drama, and more importantly, the results are good.

I don't think anyone has been unhappy so far, and I know that Bill is so confident that he has effected an improvement that he would be prepared to refund the cost if someone didn't like it, so far not one person has asked for their money back.


PaulJ you were responsible for aggressively marketing this kit on TM and I think you now have a responsibility to contact the manufacturer and find out the definitive position and advise what he is willing to do to rectify the situation for the people who have bought this Empire kit; based on your repeated recommendations.

We await your reply with interest and I will ask that Simon sends you this post by email too.

Brian