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China can 100% make good product. It all depends on the factory that you choose and how much you are willing to pay for the product. Better factory better quality = more expensive, poorer factory poorer quality = less expensive. The biggest issue in China a lot of the times is not the factory...

The issue was not that Speedmaster copied the Broader transbrake, the issue is that the used the Broader Performance trademark on it, and not only is Speedmaster legally liable for trademark infringement but all their dealers are also liable. Summit and Jegs removed the product from their...

Believe me if you have a valid active patent in the USA and someone copies it and sells it in the USA they are 100% getting sued. I have been up and down the patent and trademark infringement road many times before. I have been in the performance automotive aftermarket all my life. I have been...

I don't care if anyone copies a W5 head or where they make it. As long as they make a good product I would buy it. It would be really nice if they made the head in the USA, but if they did it would end up being quite expensive, which would be fine except for the fact that if it starts selling...

I am not justifying anything. First thing is that you are assuming that by copying a product there is some intellectual theft involved. There may be or there may not be. Was there any intellectual theft on SM part of the Broader product? Probably not, he was not the first guy to come up with a...

Books fall under copyright laws and so does music. It cannot be copied for obvious reasons as it help its creators control and receive payment for their works. If no copyright laws existed books and music would not exist in a commercial sense. You would write a book and no one would publish it...

If you do not want your product to be copied or "stolen" you need to patent it. I now have over 50 patents to my name as we do not want the product that we come out with copied. There is no theft in copying a product that is out there and no one took the time of effort to patent it, or it has...

I have been manufacturing and importing automotive aftermarket parts from China and Taiwan for over 20 years and I will try and explain how this happens and has happened to us. As far as SM is concerned this is 100% a mistake from the overseas supplier. The supplier was NEVER supposed to engrave...

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Is the carb still available?

100% it's a knock off copy. If it's $80 on the manufacturers website and you bought it on Amazon for $16 it is a counterfeit. I have had my share of buying counterfeit product on Amazon. Their shelves are full of it, and the third party sellers make a killing doing it. Amazon also does not care...

Are you sure that you have a 360 in that car and not a 318 with 360 heads on it? Since it seems that you just bought it anything is possible. I would expect a low compression 318 with 360 heads to have cranking compression like what you are seeing. Have you checked the block to make sure that it...

On this particular kit I would not know, but you can look at a million examples of this like anything Speedmaster sells, the copies of Holley carburetors and fuel pumps, copies of Carter mechanical and electric fuel pumps, copies of the Edelbrock heads and intakes, the new copies of the...

I can easily explain why this happens with overseas stuff as I am in the business of manufacturing aftermarket automotive parts overseas and selling them in the USA, and also why you call these manufacturers and no one knows anything. The issue is simple, most of this stuff is just copied off a...

I read everything in this thread and the more I think about it, the more is everything pointing to the timing, or ignition problems being the issue. Are you sure that your balancer is actually correct, that the ring has not slipped. The 7" of vacuum at idle makes no sense, the 30 degrees at idle...

Thanks that really helps, I had no idea where or how those wires were routed. Year one has the harness, little over $40 going to order one today.

That is great info! You learn something new every day :)

I finally installed the harness on Sunday and everything went well. The A/C wiring is just one wire that goes to the compressor. While doing some research on the 72 service manual I found that the wire going to the compressor should go first to a low pressure switch that goes on the drier. There...

The brown wire that goes to the brake warning lamp switch is just cut about 2 1/2 inches from the bulkhead connector and a plug is installed there. I see no other explanation than it has something to do with testing that switch, but I cannot find that plug anywhere but in the 73 chassis service...

That blue wire is on this harness too, it is for the idle stop solenoid that all 340 cars brought from the factory. My car no longer had the solenoid, but it does have a place where it mounts to the intake manifold, and the Thermoquad carb does have a place on it where the solenoid would contact...

It is M on the bulkhead schematic and all it shows is a black wire going to the brake warning lamp switch.

Part number of the harness is 00695. Makes sense that it would be for a brake test.

I was going to change my engine wiring harness today with an M&H one and I ended up aborting the project as there seemed to be some additional plugs/wires on it. I pulled out the 1972 Duster wiring diagram and figured out what 2 of the wires were, but there is a plug in this harness that I can't...

I have a 72 Duster 340 and the fuel line is solid from the fuel pump to the Thermoquad, the filter is before the pump, and that is how it came from the factory.

From the factory there was a filter on the supply side. The line going from the fuel pump to the carb was one solid piece of steel tubing threaded on both ends. It is smarter to keep the filter on the supply side so that you can use a solid piece of tubing from the pressure side to the carb...

This is basically the pump I received in the Carter box:

I did contact Carter but never heard anything back from them.

I just got an email from Amazon stating that my review of the pump did not meet their "guide lines" and will not be published. I guess that if you say that Amazon is selling counterfeit product, with photos and evidence of it, they will not let you post it...

I thought about that, but Summit still has the same pump I have been buying for decades, the photos on the Carter website still match the pump I received from Summit, and the price just does not make any sense. If Carter is going to just repackage the China pumps, which I can definitely see...

I just bought an M6866 mechanical fuel pump for my 340 Duster from Amazon. Super cheap price which immediately turned on the Spidey senses to the fact that this could be a counterfeit. As soon as I received it, I was right, it is a Chinese copy inside a Carter box. I paid less than $18 with free...