Torquer 450 in black with black end caps.
Spin forming can be used to economically produce an "axially symmetric" and seamless part with a
complex radial geometry and degree of precision that is not always possible with processes such as
hydroforming, stamping, forging or casting.
Those tasked with keeping the product range current
manufacturing up to standards, and the company's
sales and marketing moving in the intervening years,
especially during and since the 2018 MAG
bankruptcy protection filing, had done a fine job in
what had appeared to be increasingly difficult
circumstances. Emergence from the filing and a
sequence of new starts following it did no better at
'fixing' the MAG issues than all the other fixes that
had gone before.
But as 2020 dawned, with bright and shiny new
opportunities, the company was all set to reap the
benefits from manufacturing improvements,
relationship rebuilds and a brand new program of M-
8 exhausts that delivered on the often contradictory
priorities of 50-State emissions compliance,
improved power and, their primary targets, great
sound at a market savvy price-point.
That new program was the M-8 (and Twin Cam)
'Torquer 450' mufflers and, despite the
complications of the past nine months, the market
response to them has made it a full year of R&D
investment well spent.
Vance & Hines has 'form' where big diameter
mufflers are concerned, of course. At a time when 4-
inchers were the 'Big Boys' on the block, Vance &
Hines knocked it out of the park with the market's
first 4.5" diameter mufflers.
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