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Old Feb 8, 2012 | 04:49 AM
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Anyone have any bad reviews or bad quality work from Cartek? More towards their head porting or Cams? As well their transmissions? Or anything that Cartek has done. Thanks.
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Old Feb 8, 2012 | 04:55 AM
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Best example of their work that I know of

https://ls1tech.com/forums/parts-cla...-32-132-a.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tzm2pk9-nY
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Seems like the things I've heard have been good....
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I have one of their clutches. Awesome piece. It's actually the same one that's in that black trans am up there.
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I would not use them again. I ordered stage ii heads dual springs and received what looked like stage I with single springs. They also sent me a cracked throttle body. At the time the cam seemed better than most. Its been a while so maybe they have improved
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Old Feb 8, 2012 | 04:35 PM
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Almost forgot I sent them a perfect ls6 intake as a core and they claimed it was broken when they received it. I felt like was a shady deal. Too many small issues for me to trust them again
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Still hard to choose. Might just stick with TSP
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There are tons of companys. Do some research. There is EPS,TEA,AI,Futral.
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I've done lots of research just curious cause there isnt too many write ups on Cartek.
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