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Old Oct 8, 2008 | 08:50 PM
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http://store.summitracing.com/partde...0&autoview=sku

Anyone running these? They look like a good value, I was just wondering if anyone has tried them before I bought a set.
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Old Oct 8, 2008 | 09:04 PM
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I know a few years ago we had a ton of trouble with the cheaper pro form/Summit brand that fit the LT1 engines breaking roller tip pins and loosing needle bearings inside of the engines. That kinda makes me think twice about ever running cheap valve terrain components ever again..Goes back to you get what you pay for. Not a good place to try and save money
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Old Oct 8, 2008 | 09:12 PM
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i agree with wyatt318mopar. been around lt1s more than ls1s but i know that people had brokens with the rockers breaking and such. dont go cheap with rockers
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if your worried just go Harland sharps for another 50$
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i say just leave the stock rockers in. i know cars with 800 hp and stock rockers you'll be fine
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Old Oct 9, 2008 | 01:54 AM
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Originally Posted by 97Lt1TA
i agree with wyatt318mopar. been around lt1s more than ls1s but i know that people had brokens with the rockers breaking and such. dont go cheap with rockers

pro-form cheap rockers ARE NOT Summit brand related. Everything ive gotten that is summit brand (which is a ton of different things) has been extremely high quality, most of which is made by other big name manufacturers and they put their name on it (like alot of companies do)
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Originally Posted by whitew01ws6
i say just leave the stock rockers in. i know cars with 800 hp and stock rockers you'll be fine
I am not worried about the HP, I am worried about my HS modified stock rockers taking out a valve guide with my large camshaft.
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Originally Posted by SoCalSpd
pro-form cheap rockers ARE NOT Summit brand related. Everything ive gotten that is summit brand (which is a ton of different things) has been extremely high quality, most of which is made by other big name manufacturers and they put their name on it (like alot of companies do)


X2, kinda, I dont have and summit products myself but the ones I have seen are of very high quality, I WOULD trust summit products, but again if worried the Harland Sharps have a long good rep and arent much more.

Just stay away from the scorpions, been some recent posts of repeat failure with them
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DONT DO IT.

I have a few friends that work at Summit that used these, and each guy broke at least 4 rockers each, all LS1 cars. The Summit rockers are made by Scorpion btw.
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DONT DO IT.

I have a few friends that work at Summit that used these, and each guy broke at least 4 rockers each, all LS1 cars. The Summit rockers are made by Scorpion btw.


Ahhh BAM there it is, that sucks. Glad you posted that my last statement in my post was stay away from scorpion lol.
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Originally Posted by Mike94ZLT1
http://store.summitracing.com/partde...0&autoview=sku

Anyone running these? They look like a good value, I was just wondering if anyone has tried them before I bought a set.
looks like a harlan/scorpion rocker that's private labeled to me?
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