Summit Gears and Summit Suspension parts

big_tiger15 · Apr 7, 2005

I'm sure most yall know of Summits new suspension parts for fox bodies Stangs, but how good are they? Now I don't really want the people that just assume that there parts suck. Someone that has actually looked at, touched them, and might have them on their car.
Summit Gears sets are CNC cut from steal. I know thats a good thing, but are there any other brands that are CNC'd? I also bought a Trac-Loc (not track-lock) that I want to install as well.

65ShelbyClone · Apr 8, 2005

big_tiger15 said:
Summit Gears sets are CNC cut from steal. I know thats a good thing, but are there any other brands that are CNC'd?

In this day and age? All of them. Where they are made is the question.

big_tiger15 · Apr 8, 2005

65ShelbyClone said:
In this day and age? All of them. Where they are made is the question.

Well where are they made then?

darthcual · Apr 8, 2005

I've heard good things about the control arms summit sells however I have been warned by a good buddy of mine (hes a rear end guy ) to not use any rear gears except ford motor sports. Hes seen richmonds and summits and whoseverelse u wanna name mess up one way or another and sed some of them are near impossible to set the lash properly. Just what he says. Laters

DC

big_tiger15 · Apr 8, 2005

darthcual said:
I've heard good things about the control arms summit sells however I have been warned by a good buddy of mine (hes a rear end guy ) to not use any rear gears except ford motor sports. Hes seen richmonds and summits and whoseverelse u wanna name mess up one way or another and sed some of them are near impossible to set the lash properly. Just what he says. Laters

DC

yea I heard only good things about FMS, and thats a positive remark about a Summit product. What about there Sub-frame conectors?

What do you drive Darthcual? I spend 80% of my day in Arlington.

NosPony · Apr 9, 2005

The guy I know that sets up rearends in Mustangs agrees with darthcual guy. He only sets up fms gears. Says all others are harder to get set than fms gears. He said they only accept tighter tolerances than everyone else.

A summit brand buying experience i had. I bought the summit brand fuel kit for a carb application. The fuel pump and regulator came with aeromotive directions. The parts were made by them and put into summit boxes. No problems with summit stuff so far for me.

big_tiger15 · Apr 10, 2005

NosPony said:
The guy I know that sets up rearends in Mustangs agrees with darthcual guy. He only sets up fms gears. Says all others are harder to get set than fms gears. He said they only accept tighter tolerances than everyone else.

A summit brand buying experience i had. I bought the summit brand fuel kit for a carb application. The fuel pump and regulator came with aeromotive directions. The parts were made by them and put into summit boxes. No problems with summit stuff so far for me.

Well thats two good remarks about Summit Products.

Ranchero5.0 · Apr 10, 2005

The control arms look like MAC products which were horrible on the last install I did. Bushings were so tight the rear locked up and it took 2 hours to get the last bolt in.

Ditto about the gears FMS are too cheap to not put them in.

Jamie

big_tiger15 · Apr 11, 2005

NosPony said:
A summit brand buying experience i had. I bought the summit brand fuel kit for a carb application. The fuel pump and regulator came with aeromotive directions. The parts were made by them and put into summit boxes. No problems with summit stuff so far for me.

Ok im gonna quote him twice cause I think I found something out. If you look at every new suspension part that Summit sells and look at Blue Oval Industries suspension part that look identical. On the lower chasis brace they put both two and four point in one pic (summit), and if you look at Blue Ovals it is fliped (flat part up). They full length Subframe conector look Identical and the smaller hardware pieces are identical (just in a different spot and angle). The same goes with the bolton subframe conector, Torque Box kit, and Rear Shock Tower brace (in Summit's pic it looks like an one piece but its upside down from Blue Ovals pic).

Look and tell me what you think

big_tiger15 · Apr 19, 2005

I called up Summit to ask them who manufactuers there suspension parts. The guy could not tell me, but he did tell me I can't buy any of those parts yet because they haven't finished the deal or something.

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