Contacting Mike Munsinger
 

I have been trying to contact Mike Munsinger the last month, like to pickup my convertor. Tried phoning, mailed a letter. Does anyone have a home # or any info on if he's around or sick etc.. Thanks for any suggestions

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http://classracer.com/classforum/sho...ight=munsinger

Sounds like he is HARD to get in touch with.....

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All I can say is GOOD LUCK!!
hope you get your stuff.

Re: Contacting Mike Munsinger
 

As stated in the previous posts, mike apparently does not answer the
phone while he is working.

If you are local try driving by his shop, he seems to be there 6 and 7 days
a week.

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Just a reminder,,, Mike has supported us (the racers) for many years. He has saved all of us mucho dollars by getting the converter right the first time not the forth or fifth. It's sad to see people so willing to trash a guy when he falls on hard times. There should be a sticky to help him out instead of trashing him

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Good idea Mike Graham, I suggest someone close to him make contact and see what we can do to help. He may be unable to afford shipping your converter back to you so lets see how we can help. Someone please take the time to talk with him and try and help him get started back to some kind of recovery, I am sure he is overwhelmed by having to close up shop.

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The silence is deafening! I don't know if Mike needs or wants our help,but it would be nice to offer at least.

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I heard he closed up the shop?

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Someone posted on the other 2 threads its closed and Mike has all the converters at his moms house, he gave the address and phone numbers but Mike has not said anything yet. I thought if someone close to him would speak with him and see if we could help in any way. No response from anyone yet. Its also been mentioned he was going to relocate shortly but who knows.

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If, in fact Mike is closed, where do some of you ,and particularly West Coast guys, ..Where do you send your converters now for rebuilds and stall changes?
I'm looking at investing in some more equipment and trying to get a feel for the S/SS market. This has always been where my interest lies.
Thanks

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Mark


A-1 I have been using them for several years and have no complaints

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I'm in central Ohio,but I just sent one of Mikes over to ATI to be freshened.It was originally one of ATI's convertors, and several years back I had Mike make it " his way". All ATI did was change the bearings and such, and left the stator,turbine, ect. alone. I haven't tried it,so I can't give you any feedback on it. But I'm like you, and I had to find somewhere to send it . On the recite, it was noted that it was " heavily modified" from their design.

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we found ourselves in a similar predicament last year after Jim Paquet sold his JPT business the new owner Brian is converter clueless and very unreliable to boot we lucked out and discovered Lenny at ULTIMATE best converter man on the planet in my book, now all we need is a new reliable C-4 trans guy that isn't half way across the country

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Joe, No doubt ,a good company


Jeff, I wouldn't mind seeing inside that one..There really isn't a lot of room for heavy modifications inside of an 8 " conv. ,aside from making room for a mechanical diode or thick sprag...Lenny will tell you, you only have a small window within which to work in most S/SS applications.

Alex, You are very wise to be dealing with Lenny. I can say that after knowing him for almost 40 years...Except that he may have left a bit of a void in New England. LOL
If I were so inclined to move back to....Nah, never mind

Thanks for the replies so far..

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I have used Munsinger convertors in every car I've raced since '77. Mike has never been fast at making them but they are by far the most reliable, combination specific convertors IMHO.He was one of the pioneers of stator modifications for flash but yet had little high rpm slippage. I still use the (original Rossi 8") first one he "tuned up " for me in '77 when he was working for Bobby Thomson at Thomson Transmissions. The spare ( that took six months to get back) runs the same as the original exactly as I requested it be made.
No doubt there are others that do excellent work too, no argument there.

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I wish Mike all the best.... He's done alot of convertor work for me in the past, although right now i have two ATI's.. His were faster at first, but the last ATI one i got was faster... As far as turn around, Mike was slow but when i was really in a bind one time and broke a convertor (no fault of his it just had around 1500 passes on it) I over nighted it to him, he fixed it same day and overnighted it back. He was upset that he had to send out so quick he couldnt repaint it....Got it back switched them at the track and his again was faster by almost .15 .... Just my thoughts