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Buccaneer 04-26-2017 08:59 PM

Re: crossfire renegade intake manifold?
 

Originally Posted by 82tarecaro (Post 6131281)
Tom - any way to buy any of the products you had for sale? Not sure if you have any of the stuff in stock, but I am sure there might be some people interested in whatever you have left.

Thanks. We do have some things in stock depending on what people are looking for. PM me if you have something in mind, we may have it. :thumbsup:

FormerL69 04-26-2017 11:00 PM

Re: crossfire renegade intake manifold?
 
Hope you can bring the business back Tom. Would definitely like to get my hands on the TB balancing tool and some other tools you previously had for sale.

Buccaneer 04-27-2017 03:09 PM

Re: crossfire renegade intake manifold?
 

Originally Posted by FormerL69 (Post 6131341)
Hope you can bring the business back Tom. Would definitely like to get my hands on the TB balancing tool and some other tools you previously had for sale.

PM sent. :thumbsup:

KITT1983 04-30-2017 06:38 PM

Re: crossfire renegade intake manifold?
 
any parts for sale

Buccaneer 05-02-2017 05:29 PM

Re: crossfire renegade intake manifold?
 

Originally Posted by KITT1983 (Post 6132380)
any parts for sale

PM sent.

rgauder 06-09-2017 03:34 PM

Re: crossfire renegade intake manifold?
 
Summit has the Renegade on page 23 of the new catalog I just got in the mail.

Buccaneer 06-09-2017 04:45 PM

Re: crossfire renegade intake manifold?
 

Originally Posted by rgauder (Post 6143955)
Summit has the Renegade on page 23 of the new catalog I just got in the mail.

Nice! :thumbsup: I was wondering if it was going to be in their catalog.

KITT1983 07-12-2018 06:45 PM

Re: crossfire renegade intake manifold?
 
Any updates

Ronny 07-13-2018 09:55 AM

Re: crossfire renegade intake manifold?
 
I believe Summit is selling it. If not in catalog check online.

Did Edelbrock get involved late in CF life?

Buccaneer 07-13-2018 08:01 PM

Re: crossfire renegade intake manifold?
 

Originally Posted by Ronny (Post 6235737)
I believe Summit is selling it. If not in catalog check online.

Did Edelbrock get involved late in CF life?


Summit does sell it now along with others.


Not that I'm aware of...I did approached Edlebrock and began talks with them to manufacture the manifold, but they said it was too complicated and time consuming of a tool "mold" to produce. Oh, well, it's not that bad really so Eddy Motorsports makes it for us. Hope this helps :thumbsup:

KITT1983 11-18-2018 06:05 PM

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bump

Buccaneer 05-09-2019 11:43 PM

Re: crossfire renegade intake manifold?
 
A well over due update...

A new CFI company will appear on the Interwebs soon. Give me another week or two to finish the site. Waiting on some more parts, so I'm kind of at the mercy of other vendors at the moment. The new site is actually already online, but it says it's under construction, which it is. I'll be starting out small on the amount of items and add items as time goes on with "maybe" a few new items added again over time that have never been seen by anyone except myself nor sold by DCS or anybody else. I'm meeting with a pattern maker tomorrow to see the feasibility and the cost of some new tooling (molds) to be cast. Curious? I guess you will have to wait and see. PM me if you want info on site. Thanks All. :thumbsup:

Doppelganger 05-14-2019 12:06 PM

Re: crossfire renegade intake manifold?
 

Originally Posted by Buccaneer (Post 6300928)
A well over due update...

A new CFI company will appear on the Interwebs soon. Give me another week or two to finish the site. Waiting on some more parts, so I'm kind of at the mercy of other vendors at the moment. The new site is actually already online, but it says it's under construction, which it is. I'll be starting out small on the amount of items and add items as time goes on with "maybe" a few new items added again over time that have never been seen by anyone except myself nor sold by DCS or anybody else. I'm meeting with a pattern maker tomorrow to see the feasibility and the cost of some new tooling (molds) to be cast. Curious? I guess you will have to wait and see. PM me if you want info on site. Thanks All. :thumbsup:

This all sounds very exciting. I Literally today pulled my 83 CFI TA out of the closet after 12 years to put him back on the road. Ive got a renegade manifold and some 2" bodies so it'll be very interesting to see what else you will have on offer.

KITT1983 05-23-2019 08:40 PM

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awesome news

Buccaneer 05-24-2019 05:50 PM

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Getting closer...check your PM inbox.

KITT1983 05-27-2019 06:02 PM

Re: crossfire renegade intake manifold?
 

Originally Posted by Buccaneer (Post 6304036)
Getting closer...check your PM inbox.

yay

KITT1983 08-11-2019 06:20 PM

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bump

hev 09-19-2019 02:07 AM

Re: crossfire renegade intake manifold? I am very interested in your new website
 

Originally Posted by Buccaneer (Post 6300928)
A well over due update...

A new CFI company will appear on the Interwebs soon. Give me another week or two to finish the site. Waiting on some more parts, so I'm kind of at the mercy of other vendors at the moment. The new site is actually already online, but it says it's under construction, which it is. I'll be starting out small on the amount of items and add items as time goes on with "maybe" a few new items added again over time that have never been seen by anyone except myself nor sold by DCS or anybody else. I'm meeting with a pattern maker tomorrow to see the feasibility and the cost of some new tooling (molds) to be cast. Curious? I guess you will have to wait and see. PM me if you want info on site. Thanks All. :thumbsup:

please let me know when your site is up and operating

Buccaneer 09-19-2019 12:20 PM

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PM sent

gheatly 09-19-2019 07:13 PM

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me too!!

Buccaneer 09-19-2019 07:27 PM

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Originally Posted by gheatly (Post 6330900)
me too!!

PM sent.:thumbsup:

gheatly 09-19-2019 07:48 PM

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Dang!! I already bought most of the parts currently on the site.

Buccaneer 09-19-2019 10:21 PM

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LOL, thanks, but there is more stuff coming. It just takes a crazy amount of time though to get things done.

Buccaneer 10-16-2019 01:56 PM

Re: crossfire renegade intake manifold?
 
Just to let members know, there is now a Renegade manifold top plate gasket available at 1/32" thick specifically for the Renegade. There has never been a gasket offered until now. No price yet, but it is on the site to view. Price should be soon. Also, I added custom TB fittings for a parallel plumbed system using AN-6 fittings. The new blank off plates are on there as well with gaskets, not to mention that the NEW HAM board is now available. It is now a purple board with all gold connections vs. silver on the old board with some improvements to make installation easier. More to come somewhat soon. Any other questions feel free to PM me.

KITT1983 10-16-2019 07:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Buccaneer (Post 6335412)
Just to let members know, there is now a Renegade manifold top plate gasket available at 1/32" thick specifically for the Renegade. There has never been a gasket offered until now. No price yet, but it is on the site to view. Price should be soon. Also, I added custom TB fittings for a parallel plumbed system using AN-6 fittings. The new blank off plates are on there as well with gaskets, not to mention that the NEW HAM board is now available. It is now a purple board with all gold connections vs. silver on the old board with some improvements to make installation easier. More to come somewhat soon. Any other questions feel free to PM me.

pm sent

TRANSAM82-92 10-16-2019 11:17 PM

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Link to site?

KITT1983 10-17-2019 05:33 AM

Re: crossfire renegade intake manifold?
 

Originally Posted by TRANSAM82-92 (Post 6335474)
Link to site?

https://www.xfireperformance.com/

Buccaneer 10-17-2019 04:23 PM

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Like he said... :thumbsup:

Buccaneer 10-28-2019 11:37 PM

Re: crossfire renegade intake manifold?
 
Still pursuing the raw manifold casting project and have been rather busy. Getting a little push back on this from CA company. Oh well, it's 50% my tooling. If they piss me off too much I will see about pulling the tooling completely. Posted up new items on the site, like top plate gaskets and other things.

Buccaneer 11-05-2019 01:24 PM

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It looks like the tooling for the manifold is going to be pulled from Eddy Motorsports. I have a call tonight to discuss the destiny of the manifold. Worse case, it will never be produced again.

KITT1983 11-24-2019 07:05 PM

Re: crossfire renegade intake manifold?
 

Originally Posted by Buccaneer (Post 6338460)
It looks like the tooling for the manifold is going to be pulled from Eddy Motorsports. I have a call tonight to discuss the destiny of the manifold. Worse case, it will never be produced again.

omg any updates

Buccaneer 12-03-2019 12:05 PM

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The tooling will be removed and inspected from EMS on Dec 13th when we take a road trip to CA.

Buccaneer 12-09-2019 07:49 PM

Re: crossfire renegade intake manifold?
 

Originally Posted by Buccaneer (Post 6342318)
The tooling will be removed and inspected from EMS on Dec 13th when we take a road trip to CA.

Changed to the 16th of Dec.

Buccaneer 12-20-2019 11:38 PM

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Just to let all you CF guys know...The tooling for the Renegade manifold is now back in my hands safe and sound. EMS is NO LONGER making them or selling them. There are some issues, but it doesn't look bad or unrepairable. All the core boxes look good for sure. Just the cope and drags are the issue so far. Even the top plate looks good and that is one piece that I was worried about. We are going to look it over a little more tomorrow and the next few days and also get with the pattern maker in Phoenix that originally did the tooling and see what he says.I have to get with our original machinist and tell him that he may be back in the manifold business again.

Also, we may have found another promising new foundry...AND ITS LOCAL! That would be HUGE if everything looks and goes as planned IMO. Need to contact Summit as well before we lose that connection because of EMS. There is a lot to do and since the holiday is coming, it will set things back a little, BUT at least all the tooling is back to us and I'm a happy camper right now.

Here are the core boxes, they are all in good shape...thank God! I talked with my machinist today and we discussed the manifold machining and kind of what I want to do if this all works out as planned and he is all for it including the "blue printed" version/plan and ready to go.
https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.thi...1daccb4dc9.jpg


KITT1983 12-24-2019 10:17 AM

Re: crossfire renegade intake manifold?
 

Originally Posted by Buccaneer (Post 6344993)
Just to let all you CF guys know...The tooling for the Renegade manifold is now back in my hands safe and sound. EMS is NO LONGER making them or selling them. There are some issues, but it doesn't look bad or unrepairable. All the core boxes look good for sure. Just the cope and drags are the issue so far. Even the top plate looks good and that is one piece that I was worried about. We are going to look it over a little more tomorrow and the next few days and also get with the pattern maker in Phoenix that originally did the tooling and see what he says.I have to get with our original machinist and tell him that he may be back in the manifold business again.

Also, we may have found another promising new foundry...AND ITS LOCAL! That would be HUGE if everything looks and goes as planned IMO. Need to contact Summit as well before we lose that connection because of EMS. There is a lot to do and since the holiday is coming, it will set things back a little, BUT at least all the tooling is back to us and I'm a happy camper right now.

Here are the core boxes, they are all in good shape...thank God! I talked with my machinist today and we discussed the manifold machining and kind of what I want to do if this all works out as planned and he is all for it including the "blue printed" version/plan and ready to go.
https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.thi...1daccb4dc9.jpg

it needs an adapter for the ac bracket hole on the fbody intakes

jstadmud 01-15-2020 01:13 PM

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Any updates on how things are coming along? I'm really looking forward to building up my CrossFire engine!




Buccaneer 01-15-2020 02:06 PM

Re: crossfire renegade intake manifold?
 

Originally Posted by jstadmud (Post 6349305)
Any updates on how things are coming along? I'm really looking forward to building up my CrossFire engine!

Not much to report right now. I have talked with the original pattern maker about the tooling and I need to drop it all off and have him take a look at it. When that happens, I will post an update of the next move. Thanks for posting. :thumbsup:

jstadmud 01-15-2020 05:57 PM

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Awesome! Hope everything goes according to plan

KITT1983 01-21-2020 01:58 PM

Re: crossfire renegade intake manifold?
 

Originally Posted by Buccaneer (Post 6349321)
Not much to report right now. I have talked with the original pattern maker about the tooling and I need to drop it all off and have him take a look at it. When that happens, I will post an update of the next move. Thanks for posting. :thumbsup:

the renegade manifold needs a mounting hole for the a/c bracket/ brace on the f-body intakes.

jstadmud 03-03-2020 12:29 PM

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I just saw that all items have been removed from xfireperformance.com website and it says its shutting down?? Does anyone here have any info? Is this to be the end of the Renegade CrossFire intake?

Ronny 03-04-2020 08:40 AM

Re: crossfire renegade intake manifold?
 
An inexpensive alternative to the CF manifold is a single plane weiand(spell?) accelerator with adapter plate to a 7.4L TB. Or a edelbrock torker with same. Those are low profile manifolds that may clear a hood. I ran similar but the TBI Holley dual plane manifold.

RBob 03-05-2020 03:46 PM

Re: crossfire renegade intake manifold?
 

Originally Posted by jstadmud (Post 6357321)
I just saw that all items have been removed from xfireperformance.com website and it says its shutting down?? Does anyone here have any info? Is this to be the end of the Renegade CrossFire intake?

I just went to their web site and all looks OK. Maybe you hit the wrong site? Dunno'

RBob.

jstadmud 03-07-2020 01:20 PM

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I copied the pages below from the Xfire website........



https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.thi...0fd75c9629.png
https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.thi...3f505d15e8.png

RBob 03-08-2020 09:08 AM

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Wow.

RBob.

KITT1983 03-12-2020 02:50 PM

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wtf happened ?

Buccaneer 03-18-2020 12:54 AM

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Notice... If anyone was interested, I did open one item for sales, the HAM board.

Buccaneer 05-02-2020 11:16 PM

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UPDATE: The Renegade tooling is done and as good as new again. I will be picking it up either Monday or Tues from the pattern maker. Now, I need to go to the foundry and see what I can work out with them if anything. More as this story as it develops. Now if I can only get this virus thing to stop. What a mess...

KITT1983 05-03-2020 12:33 AM

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did you add a mounting hole for the a/c bracket/ brace on the renegade manifold? it needs it for the f-body intakes

Buccaneer 05-03-2020 04:50 AM

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Originally Posted by KITT1983 (Post 6369580)
did you add a mounting hole for the a/c bracket/ brace on the renegade manifold? it needs it for the f-body intakes

You have asked this several times now. That would appear to be a machining issue, not a tooling issue. Since I don't have or ever had a F-body car and you have not given me any information regarding this issue in the way of bolt dimensions, thread size/pitch, length and most importantly "exactly" where the hole needs to be, the short answer would be no.

Buccaneer 05-05-2020 01:48 PM

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UPDATE: I picked up the Renegade tooling today from the pattern maker. It all looks nice and just like brand new again and ready for pouring. https://www.corvetteforum.com/forums...s/thumbsup.gif On to the next step... I will be going to the foundry in the morning with the tooling to see if I can get them to do some pours.


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