Summit Racing Rebuild Kits

rerun · #1 10-12-2003, 09:58 AM

hey, i'm just about to buy a a rebuild kit along with some other stuff.. two questioins:
1. is it worth all the money?
2. is the SUmmit brand a good name? (as in thier cam and lifters)
heres the parts:

http://store.summitracing.com/partde...=30302&from=MG

http://store.summitracing.com/partde...t=7105&from=MG

http://store.summitracing.com/partde...rt=662&from=MG

http://store.summitracing.com/partde...rt=122&from=MG

stang_racer20 · #2 10-12-2003, 12:17 PM

Don't buy summit brand parts!

rerun · #3 10-12-2003, 02:02 PM

whys that?

HiFlow5 0 · #4 10-12-2003, 04:25 PM

I believe it was 76Cobra who bought a summit cam, and had nothing but problems after that.

GTStang · #5 10-12-2003, 04:34 PM

It depends what you want to make for hp. The summit rebuild kits are fine cause it's everyone else parts just package together. I'd stay away from everything else.

stang_racer20 · #6 10-12-2003, 10:52 PM

summit brand parts are mass produced more so than other companies. say 'for instance' on a camshaft lobe, Crane Cams has a tolerance of .002 on it. summit may have .003-.004 tolerance, its the little stuff like that. why do you think the summit brand stuff is so much cheaper. cause its made cheaper! its kinda like picking a civic over a mustang, it'll work and they are cheaper but why the hell on earth would you do it.

90Stangjc · #7 10-13-2003, 10:36 PM

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Originally Posted by stang_racer20

summit brand parts are mass produced more so than other companies. say 'for instance' on a camshaft lobe, Crane Cams has a tolerance of .002 on it. summit may have .003-.004 tolerance, its the little stuff like that. why do you think the summit brand stuff is so much cheaper. cause its made cheaper! its kinda like picking a civic over a mustang, it'll work and they are cheaper but why the hell on earth would you do it.

Me and my stepdad just put together a 83' GT w/ a 335 horsepower 302, not a crate engine, our stuff that we thought would work and guess what??? EVERYTHING was from summit. We've ran the HELL out of that thing and no problems. Maybe you should quite blaming the maker and start blaming the assembler. Denial, a bad habit....

stang_racer20 · #8 10-13-2003, 11:43 PM

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Originally Posted by 90Stangjc

Me and my stepdad just put together a 83' GT w/ a 335 horsepower 302, not a crate engine, our stuff that we thought would work and guess what??? EVERYTHING was from summit. We've ran the HELL out of that thing and no problems. Maybe you should quite blaming the maker and start blaming the assembler. Denial, a bad habit....

ok before i say anything else im gonna say this. i said 'summit brand' im my reply and in your reply you said 'ordered from summit'. i 'ordered' a lot of stuff through summit for my car. summit as a distributor is an awesome company with great prices. but as far as 'quality high performance parts', they suck plain and simple. look in everybodys sigs or ask any professional racer. do they use 'summit-brand' parts, no, cause they know most 'summit-brand' parts are just cheaply made. summit parts are good for a bolt on street car type, sure. but if your gonna race or beat on it, get some other brand who is well known for having long lasting, quality, high performance parts. and in regards to your accusation of me being a bad mechanic/assembler, yea i know what you were getting at, keep it to yourself cause you dont know jack fuckin shit about my abilities.

90Stangjc · #9 10-14-2003, 07:06 PM

Yeah, well alot of stuff from the magazine was summit brand parts, and we ordered those parts that were summit brand stuff. And by the way, YOU dont know "jack fuckin shit" about summit brand name parts, its what you HEARD THAT YOU THINK YOU KNOW. Have you personally gone out and built a car with summit brand name parts???
I didnt think so. So...you dis on shit you dont know about, so i'll dis on shit i dont know about...that's fair enough.

stang_racer20 · #10 10-14-2003, 10:34 PM

look, whatever you wanna do, do it. i really dont care. im just warning other people about my experiences with bad summit parts and yes i have tried a few. so keep the flame wars out of this!

BigDanTheMan · #11 10-15-2003, 01:13 AM

take a chill pill you ass, stangracer has proven himself on this site a lot more then you have. not only that, but in this debate his articulance and emperical discussion has far outdone your insults and personal references. don't take everything so personaly, a comment on sumit is not an attack on you - not everyone is going to dig what you support so bitch be cool

rerun · #12 10-15-2003, 06:33 AM

isn't it funny how all flamers burn in hell?

seriously though, calm the fuck down, i guess its more of an opion question

[SS]Disabled · #13 10-15-2003, 06:41 AM

*Sits on the chair in front of the screen, eating popcorn and enjoying the show

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HiFlow5 0 · #14 10-15-2003, 06:43 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 90Stangjc

Yeah, well alot of stuff from the magazine was summit brand parts, and we ordered those parts that were summit brand stuff. And by the way, YOU dont know "jack fuckin shit" about summit brand name parts, its what you HEARD THAT YOU THINK YOU KNOW. Have you personally gone out and built a car with summit brand name parts???
I didnt think so. So...you dis on shit you dont know about, so i'll dis on shit i dont know about...that's fair enough.

Hey easy there noob! Remember that this is a community board and people will have different opinions! Now quit the flaming and BS!

[SS]Disabled · #15 10-15-2003, 06:57 AM

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Originally Posted by HiFlow5 0

Hey easy there noob! Remember that this is a community board and people will have different opinions! Now quit the flaming and BS!

The master has spoken and thee who shall not obay will be punished with terrible fury

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What i was actually going to say is: yeah 90Stangjc, chill, put a lease on yourself before you get bitten.

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