speedmaster stuff pulled from Summit racing shelves

subcom said

I’m intrigued to see how this plays out. The name suddenly appearing on this VB just doesn’t accidentally happen. The drawing would have to be updated before sent to the CNC or someone took an existing VB plate and machined the name in to it. Something seems off about this story but the reality is probably no where near where any of us think it is. :)

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I've experienced it enough first-hand to know exactly what happened. Someone at speedmaster sent a legit part to a shop in China and said "Make it like this", and so they did. Most china based companies couldn't even figure out how to make the part from drawings, almost everything comes from sending samples. If you do send drawings, often you'll receive something that 'looks like' the drawing but won't actually match it. Speedmaster forgot to tell them to take the logo off because they've already done this dozens of times and simply forgot on this go-around. I can almost guarantee that's the case because if it was the first time, someone would have opened the boxes to see that they didn't just get boxes of rocks. Instead, speedmaster probably never put eyes on these parts at all and just slapped a new label over the chinese one to ship the pallet over to Summit. That implies a pretty solid working relationship with the supplier.
I could be wrong, but again I'm basing this on actual experience with counterfeit parts.