skip white HEI timing issues
I guess we need to start a thread and pin it to the top....and everyone who wants to buy parts will need your approval........
and you wonder why people post less and less on here.....
ahh...nothing like the keyboard crew chiefs....
How about you have a look at some of the threads I've started and mechanical advice I've given and then ask yourself if I'm a keyboard crew chief.. ..
Guys like you don't give a toss about where parts come from ,the labor they use to make them or what industries they destroy along the way, nor do you care about the problems they can create in the builder to customer relationship (my world), as long as you have saved a few bucks by purchasing from the "Parts Pirates".
At the end of the day I'd rather be a supposed "keyboard crew chief" than have my judgment clouded by greed...
That guy could have bought a $300 dizzy if he really wanted to, all he had to do was save his bucks a little longer and then maybe he wouldn't even have the problem in the first place..
I know top end parts can fail, the last car I worked on for Drag Week, had an MSD pickup failure, but MSD were there because they are a Sponsor of the event and fixed it on the spot. Can't complain about that..
Procomp know they have a bad reputation.. why do you think they changed their name?? Geez.. Come on... really???
How many Procomp parts have I seen?
In my profession along the years I have seen plenty. From poorly cast and machined manifolds, poor head casting and machining, soft guides, other porous castings to broken rockers and adjusters, failed flex plates, distributors that work from 6 weeks to six months, CDI boxes that don't even work straight out of the package.
It was at it's worst when they first started flooding the market, but I have noticed less people using and asking about them, but that could just be because I don't do much work for tight asses anymore.
I also have a friend that used to work for the distributor of those parts on this side of the world, and wow the stories he tells... LOL... I remember when they were welding weights to the crank throws to try and get them to some sort of factory balance point. I'm not talking Mallory metal, I'm talking actual steel plate welded to the throws. Wow, did they make a mess when they came off, Didn't stop them from trying to sell them though..You want to back companies that do things like that, then be my guest.
If you think I have any sympathy for people who have problems with cheap cost saving parts then your dead wrong.
Then again a machinist I know loves those parts, he say's it's always easier to argue the extra machining \ repairing cost on a cheap Chinese part than it is on a brand name part..
Are we now clear on my position?
