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quality of summit house brand parts?? #706336
05/24/10 08:46 AM 05/24/10 08:46 AM
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i'm going in circles about what to do for a bracket door car and am thinking hard about doing something with the 72 swinger i had originally intended for a street car. has anyone used the summit house brand aluminum radiator/shroud/electric fan setup and/or their electric water pump that goes in the stock housing? also wondering about their poly race seat setup? tnx
Re: quality of summit house brand parts?? [Re: jamesc] #706337
05/24/10 12:31 PM 05/24/10 12:31 PM
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We have the poly seats in 2 cars.Mine 4 years the kids 10 years.No problems with them.They arent for a 100 mile drive but we both street drive the cars and they arent too bad.Ive heard the Rads are decent.Never heard of any problems with them.Most of their parts are made by Major companies and just changed a bit and their name on it.Rocky

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Re: quality of summit house brand parts?? [Re: therocks] #706338
05/24/10 12:41 PM 05/24/10 12:41 PM
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dont know about the fan and shroud, but i have the radiator in 2 diffeent cars and they work nice. my first aluminum radiator was a griffin and that piece of crap started leaking after a couple years of use. the summit radiator that replaced the griffin has been in the car for 5 years now. they are made by northern radiator.
Re: quality of summit house brand parts?? [Re: therocks] #706339
05/24/10 12:43 PM 05/24/10 12:43 PM
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Will never buy another skummit SB double roller timing chain. Dont know who makes them for them? But the last 2-3 i bought have been junk. More slack in the chain than the old chain.

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Re: quality of summit house brand parts?? [Re: 727builder] #706340
05/24/10 01:02 PM 05/24/10 01:02 PM
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Dont know about Summit, but Jegs electric water pumps are good. This is the 1 I run.
http://www.jegs.com/i/JEGS/555/50930/10002/-1
Re: quality of summit house brand parts?? [Re: 512 VALIANT] #706341
05/24/10 02:01 PM 05/24/10 02:01 PM
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thanks, i was looking at that one too. $175 with the racer discount.
Re: quality of summit house brand parts?? [Re: therocks] #706342
05/24/10 02:15 PM 05/24/10 02:15 PM
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We have the poly seats in 2 cars.Mine 4 years the kids 10 years.No problems with them.They arent for a 100 mile drive but we both street drive the cars and they arent too bad.Ive heard the Rads are decent.Never heard of any problems with them.Most of their parts are made by Major companies and just changed a bit and their name on it.Rocky



Exactly. I have a lot of jegs branded parts on the 2 smallblocks I am building. I really like them. I think the billet aluminum parts are csr possibly. If not they are identical. I have the throttle brackets, thermo housing, fittings, and all kinds of other stuff. I'm pleased with all of it too.

Re: quality of summit house brand parts?? [Re: jamesc] #706343
05/24/10 02:15 PM 05/24/10 02:15 PM
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I've been running the Summit electric w/p (CVR) and radiator (Howe Racing) with either 1 or 2 16" SPAL fans for 3+ years and am completely satisfied. I actually have some OVERcooling issues when at full speed, but a drilled T-stat (none in there at the moment) should solve it without dead-heading the pump.

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Re: quality of summit house brand parts?? [Re: jamesc] #706344
05/24/10 02:32 PM 05/24/10 02:32 PM
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Romeo MI
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I've been happy with the Summit brand parts... I have
their poly seat and cover also... its been in there
for 12 years now and still fine... from time to time
they do change manufacturers on parts... they go by
the cheapest bid... so todays part could be different
from 1 year ago
Re: quality of summit house brand parts?? [Re: MR_P_BODY] #706345
05/24/10 07:10 PM 05/24/10 07:10 PM
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Clinton Township, Michigan
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I've used their radiator and some hose fittings. No trouble from any of it.
Re: quality of summit house brand parts?? [Re: Dartin] #706346
05/24/10 07:55 PM 05/24/10 07:55 PM
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I am also happy with my summit rand and summit electric water pump.thanks Mopar65

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Re: quality of summit house brand parts?? [Re: mopar65] #706347
05/24/10 11:13 PM 05/24/10 11:13 PM
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Summit "brand" parts are nearly always made by someone else and then rebranded and boxed. That means you have to figure out who is making what for Summit and when to get a real accurate idea. Goo luck with that.
Re: quality of summit house brand parts?? [Re: Chilort] #706348
05/24/10 11:42 PM 05/24/10 11:42 PM
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gulfport, ms, west mi
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I noticed today that some of the Jegs brand parts were higher priced than the major brand. I don't shop summit but it's done by low bid. Who will sell there relabeled parts the cheeper than the next guy.


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Re: quality of summit house brand parts?? [Re: rowin4] #706349
05/25/10 02:12 AM 05/25/10 02:12 AM
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no probs with Summit branded parts in 6 years.
Re: quality of summit house brand parts?? [Re: 727builder] #706350
05/25/10 01:29 PM 05/25/10 01:29 PM
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Will never buy another skummit SB double roller timing chain. Dont know who makes them for them? But the last 2-3 i bought have been junk. More slack in the chain than the old chain.

Interesting. I have two of the Mopar BB timing chain sets and they are great. Taught chain, 9 index keys, torrington bearing against the block, etc. Now I run a flat tappet cam, not a roller with 800 open pressure.

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Re: quality of summit house brand parts?? [Re: 440Jim] #706351
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Will never buy another skummit SB double roller timing chain. Dont know who makes them for them? But the last 2-3 i bought have been junk. More slack in the chain than the old chain.

Interesting. I have two of the Mopar BB timing chain sets and they are great. Taught chain, 9 index keys, torrington bearing against the block, etc. Now I run a flat tappet cam, not a roller with 800 open pressure.

same upinhyuh. i was impressed with the quality and fit. i have punished the big block sets beyond description- no failures.

for what is the good life if not doing things thoughtfully?
Re: quality of summit house brand parts?? [Re: jamesc] #706352
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i'm going in circles about what to do for a bracket door car and am thinking hard about doing something with the 72 swinger i had originally intended for a street car. has anyone used the summit house brand aluminum radiator/shroud/electric fan setup and/or their electric water pump that goes in the stock housing? also wondering about their poly race seat setup? tnx

i have the seats in my turd. they're fine. reasonably comfy, and still plenty solid after hundreds of thousands of runs and millions of miles. ok. maybe not that much. but a lot!

for what is the good life if not doing things thoughtfully?
Re: quality of summit house brand parts?? [Re: maximum entropy] #706353
05/25/10 03:09 PM 05/25/10 03:09 PM
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Johnstown
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I picked up a really nice aluminum radiator for my challenger on ebay. It was direct factory replacement only aluminum. It was really nice and only around $150.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Aluminum-...sQ5fAccessories

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Re: quality of summit house brand parts?? [Re: 440Jim] #706354
05/25/10 03:38 PM 05/25/10 03:38 PM
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Will never buy another skummit SB double roller timing chain. Dont know who makes them for them? But the last 2-3 i bought have been junk. More slack in the chain than the old chain.

Interesting. I have two of the Mopar BB timing chain sets and they are great. Taught chain, 9 index keys, torrington bearing against the block, etc. Now I run a flat tappet cam, not a roller with 800 open pressure.



I bought the Summit chain set for my 440 build and it looks very much like the Rollmaster that is on the other engine...

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Re: quality of summit house brand parts?? [Re: Chilort] #706355
05/25/10 04:07 PM 05/25/10 04:07 PM
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Summit "brand" parts are nearly always made by someone else and then rebranded and boxed. That means you have to figure out who is making what for Summit and when to get a real accurate idea. Goo luck with that.


I have some summit items over the years. I know from my experiance that they can not tell you exaclty who it is made by, but I have had some very good luck where the phone persons will tell me it is very similar to another part made by company X. Which is about as far as they can go in telling you who made the part. As a result I will have to say I had very good luck with Summit products all except for a tach, but they exchanged without question.

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