Since christmas is comming up I have been looking at runners. Now my question. Alot of used runners that I see have dings and dents in them. I was looking at mine and they are flawless. Is it from tools smacking the crap out of them or does something weird happen sometimes? It just seems weird to me that so many of them are dented.
Also, what kind of a price range should I look when getting runners? I am thinking slps.
Thanks
Brian

 

WTF is it with TPI runners always being dented??? I don't get it, are they that fragile/dingable???

 

exactly

 

I wonder if the dings are from people shoe horning them in. Since they are bigger maybe there are clearance issues with injecters and the rail. I've seen many a headers dinged for that reason.

 

The ones that I have seen dinged up are stock.

Brian

 

I don't know, but they aren't dented for clearance.

 

They are really easy to dent. I was doing something (I forget, it was a long time ago) on my 85 TA, and the screwdriver slipped and grazed the runner. Nice mark it left.

 

I have mine off to do some work and I can't believe how light and fragile they are. Mine also have no dents in them, but the head of my ratchet got against one and left a little mark, luckily it is where you wont be able to see it. Almost every set I see for sale has dents in them. Mine are now wrapped in a towel waiting to be polished. Hopefully they will make it back on, dent free!

 

Mine have been tossed around the garage, and are currently sitting on my kitchen floor (I love apartments with no storage). I still haven't managed to put a single dent in them.