Kinda negative experience with summit
Small update on my end. Yesterday I called summit and asked the salesman why this intake was in a brown box. He told me they ship them as received from Edelbrock. Aaaa ok this is a first because I’ve bought a ton of Edelbrock stuff always shipped to my in a nice double layer Edelbrock box. My next call was to Heather at Edelbrock and I left a message. She worked with me one this same issue earlier this year. She returned my call this afternoon. I asked if they would ever ship anything in an unmarked brown box. Absolutely not we are proud of our packaging. She started the process at asked for Pats name, copy of the receipt, pictures of box intake came in, and pictures if possible. Here’s a few pictures. Ohhh wait I forgot. There was a summit racing sticker inside the stapled brown box. Hmmmmm
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Agreed. I've had more Edelbrock stuff delivered than I can remember and it
always came in their nice boxes....
As to the OPs problem, sucks but that looks like most Edelbrock intakes I've ever gotten. Just my luck maybe?
I have to wonder though, is that mismatch because of the manifold or the gasket? How does that particular gasket match the heads?
When I've set their manifolds up to check flatness/matching with the heads they've almost always been off side-to-side and/or front-to-back, having gaps that varied depending on how you shifted the intake around at least in my experience.
They are the reason I've always preferred milling those intakes when most guys screamed at me that milling the heads was 'the right way'....no thanks.
Not about to permanently match a nice set of heads to a crappy intake....
This last build (RB) I went for the Trick Flow intake and it fit really well. Personally, I'm done with Edelbrock....oops did I go off on a side rant?:eek::D:D
