"I purchased a GM Performance 350 Crate Motor in December 2016, installed it into my 56 Chevy Pickup. We experienced a very wet winter/spring in the PNW and didn't get a chance to drive the truck very much until April and May timeframe. I started driving the truck as much as I could, weather permitting and at about 300 miles on the motor I noticed a big puff of blue smoke out of the passenger exhaust. Talking with my car buddies, alot of them said that maybe the rings have not seated yet. I continued to drive it on short trips and the problem didn't go away, it just got worse. Pulled the spark plugs and number 8 cylinder plug was very wet with oil and the motor started puffing out blue clouds of smoke about every 10-15 miles.
I called Summit and spoke with their tech folks and they told me that they couldn't help me, I had to call GM and talk with them about their warranty. The GM representative that I spoke with was helpful until he ask me what shop put in the motor and I told him that myself and two other friends that are very well experienced put the motor in the truck, well is tone changed and became very rude. He eventually gave me a case number and said take to any GM dealership and have them evaluate the problem.
I called 5 GM dealerships and only one would even talk to me about warranty work on a Crate Motor, the dealership is an hour from my home. I drove my truck to the dealer and they had the truck for two weeks before calling me to tell me that I needed to pick the truck up and pull the motor and bring it back to them in two weeks to work on the motor, they said it had excessive blow-by. I picked up the truck, pulled the motor and took it back two weeks later. Now a month has gone by and they have had it for 2 1/2 weeks until they finally got the engine apart to diagnose the problem. They called me and said the rings are bad and the gaps are to big. They told me they don't do engine work at the dealership and were sending it to a Machine shop for final diagnosis. I called today 7 weeks after this nightmare began and they finally got approval from GM to fix the problem. I called Summit Racing about this over a week ago and explained this situation to them, to see if they could call GM and apply some pressure to fixing this situation and the only thing that Summit did was to send me a SURVEY, really, great service after the sell. Very disappointed with GM Crate Motors, their warranty and Summit Racing. Dan Dearing Vancouver, WA. "
" I called summit racing and ask them if the sniper EFI would work with a supercharger the tech told me that yes it would work because it has a two bar map sensor wish to find out from the Dino guy after I installed it all and brought it there to Dino that sniper EFI does not work with blow through applications or superchargers now they say that they don't have a record of conversation of me talking to them about it.
And now that I have installed it they will not return it although I was told it would work for what application I was going to use this for! "
"THEY DONT KEEP ANYTHING IN STOCK ..................GO ELSEWHERE ........... THEY S-CK !! THE WORST CUSTOMER SERVICE !! WHAT CAN I SAY THERE A TERRIBLE COMPANY !!"
"I spent 30 minutes on the phone first waiting for a person to speak with, then having them (sales, technical and returns dept.) tell me the warranty for a $800. plus fuel injection pump is through the re-manufacturer (Delphi) and I cannot get a copy of warranty until I purchase part. Yeah right!"
"Great place to buy your parts !! Fast and reliable.. I ordered my parts on Saturday afternoon, and on Monday I had my parts. Good job summit racing equipment ! "
"My package arrived extremely damaged and covered in different kinds of tape. Once i opened the package, parts were missing. I called summit and they are sending me a new winch but it is greatly delaying my build. Customer service was helpful but is upsetting to see that they would ship out a part in such poor shape with pieces missing. They have very poor quality control."
"Alright I called summits tech line and talked to a guy named Terry about some parts for an engine that I'm building for my 93 Chevy truck. I wanted to build a more powerful street engine you see, but terry proceeds to tell me that it's illegal to do that on a late model vehicle. I told me he didn't have time for me, did you get that, he didn't have time for me, now this is the tech line, you know the guys that are supposed to help you out. Nope not terry he judged said no so if you're building an engine don't call summit they ****!"
"they will sell you something they don't even have
then tell you "we can't say when it will ship'
you cancel order - THEN it immediately ships
of course by now you've already got the part somewhere else
BECAUSE YOU NEEDED IT
they couldn't care less"
"SUMMIT RACING WOULD NOT POST MY REVIEW - I SUBMITTED IT TO SUMMIT RACING NUMEROUS TIMES SO NOW I AM POSTING IT EVERYWHERE ELSE TO HELP BUYERS MAKE AN EDUCATED PURCHASE ..........
I PURCHASED "ITP" TIRES FROM SUMMIT RACING (FOR A HIGHER PRICE) BECAUSE THE ITP WEBSITE STATES:
"ITP tires are proudly designed and developed at its two American tire facilities in Clinton, Tenn., and Jackson, Tenn. ITP tires are currently produced in its manufacturing facility in Clinton, TN. Why is that important? Because we believe in American ingenuity and the quality of the products that only comes from being manufactured in the United States."
THE TIRES I RECEIVED ARE CLEARLY MARKED "MADE IN CHINA" AND ARE SIMPLY A CARLISLE TURF SAVER TIRE THAT I COULD HAVE BOUGHT LOCALLY FOR UNDER 20.00 EACH. I DIDN'T WANT A CHINESE TIRE SO I SEARCHED OUT A USA MADE TIRE. AFTER WAITING A WEEK FOR THEM TO ARRIVE I HAD NO CHOICE BUT TO USE THEM AS MY 4 ACRE YARD HAD TO BE MOWED
SUMMIT RACING DIDN'T WANT TO DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT BECAUSE THE COUNTY OF ORIGIN WAS NOT LISTED ON THE SUMMIT WEBSITE. THERE IS A LINK ON THE SUMMIT WEBSITE TO THE ITP WEBSITE WHICH IS WHERE I FOUND THE INFO STATING "PROUDLY MADE IN USA"
ACCORDING TO SUMMIT WEBSITE THE ORDER WAS SUPPOSED TO SHIP FROM THE MANUFACTURER THE NEXT DAY . THAT DIDN'T HAPPEN. IT TOOK 4 DAYS TO SHIP AND 8 DAYS TO RECEIVE THE SHIPMENT.
THEIR CUSTOMER SERVICE IS SIMPLY HORRIBLE. THE CUSTOMER REPS ARE A POOR EXCUSE AT BEST. VERY VERY POOR RECEPTION TO MY CONCERNS AND COULD CARE LESS ABOUT FIXING THE PROBLEM
IT TOOK FOREVER ON HOLD(MORE THAN 20 MINUTES) EACH PHONE CALL TO SUMMIT TO SPEAK TO A PERSON ABOUT THE INCORRECT INFO AND THE SITUATION I WAS NOW IN
I HAD OVER 2 HOURS TOTAL PHONE TIME AFTER NUMEROUS PHONE CALLS
I GIVE SUMMIT A POOR (NEGATIVE 2 STAR) RATING FOR SELLING A TIRE FROM A MANUFACTURER WHO LIES ABOUT THEIR PRODUCTS AND THEN NOT WILLING TO DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT WHEN THEY ARE CONFRONTED WITH THE FACTS. THE SUMMIT REP ALSO TOLD ME THAT HE COULD SEE THAT THE TIRES ARE MADE IN CHINA ON THE INFORMATION THAT HE COULD SEE. WHEN I ASKED WHY THIS INFO WAS NOT LISTED ON THE SUMMIT WEBSITE FOR THE PUBLIC TO VIEW HE HAD NO ANSWER.
I REALLY TRIED FROM EVERY ASPECT TO FIND SOMETHING GOOD ABOUT THIS WHOLE EXPERIENCE BUT CAN NOT GIVE MY APPROVAL FOR THIS BEING ACCEPTABLE BUSINESS PRACTICES. I WILL WAIT TO SEE IF SUMMIT OR ITP TIRES CONTACT ME ABOUT THIS REVIEW "
"I order more than $1,500 in parts for a car I am rebuilding. The first order they sent me wrong parts. I had to ship them back and wait 2 weeks to get the correct parts. I contacted them to find out they would not do anything about the damaged headers. The dent in the header looked like it might be a design for the spark plug. Due to my honesty with letting them know that I did in fact put it on they told me they could not do anything. I sent them pictures showing the damage and that it was damaged before the ceramic coating. They said it didn't matter. They wanted me to wait 2 more weeks to send me a replacement. So, learn from me. Buy local and avoid this poor service."
"They display parts for Motocross and other of road motorcycles but parts are not stocked and ship direct from suppliers. This only works if they have a inventory management system that lets them confirm availability prior to the order. They don't appear to and sold me a part that was out of stock and discontinued by the manufacture. Save yourself time and aggravation and and avoid using them. There are to many quality companies that support the industry and have parts on hand to use these guys. "
"I ordered a tool box and grill guard for my pick up at the talmadge store in person. The clerk told me the items would have to be shipped to the store for pick up in a few weeks. I was fine with that. Three weeks later I get tracking information from ups freight they are going to deliver to my house a 200 pound pallet on the back of a semi truck. Now I don't have a forklift at the house nor can I lift 200 pounds. Also, I would have to take the day off of work to wait on a truck delivery. This is completely insane. I called their customer service it was a joke I said they were supposed to deliver to the store and I would pick up. I told them I cannot get it off a semi truck he told me I should have arranged for a lift gate truck when I ordered. So this confirms this guy was not even listening to a word I was saying. So I cancelled the order and refused the shipment. These people are complete idiots. I will never buy anything from summit again. Done."
"Summit sold me a DEFECTIVE Dorman air intake which doesn't even fit my truck, After calling customer service, they sent me another **** intake with the same part number! I'm not the only customer either. Simply youtube Dorman Air Intake Leaks, Dorman makes several faulty intakes and summit swears to by them. The summit customer service rep told "Sorry, that's the only intake we have for your model,as in ( want some more **** products)?
at 32 years old I will never ever ever do business with Summit Racing again. I'm with every other screwed over customer...Just pay more for a factory certified part and don't waste your time with Summit Racing."
"My name is Phil Innarella, Im doing a ground up restoration on my 68 Chevelle for myself at my body shop.. Don't ever buy sheetmetal from this company... Just an example i had 5 hoods sent to me destroyed.. Everytime i called summit back i explained to them the parts including fenders etc are packaged terrible no bubble wrap at all just a hood thrown in a box I contacted JR the supervisor and told him what was going on and how these damaged parts could possibly been avoided.. I told JR i have a bodyshop i get hoods all he time with no damage because they are packaged the right way..Well JR told me he would check himself.. LOL the 6th hood came today worst than ever.. JR The Supervisor never did what he promised.. I called several times and left messages not even a call back.. Thank you JR its ok u don't have to call me back"
"I have been buying from these guys for years. Jeg's, too. And Rock Auto. Our projects have included a '72 el Camino, '78 Nova, '78 Corvette, '97 Z28, '05 GTO, '09 G8GT, and a '14 Silverado. I can safely state that we have ordered well over $15k in parts from Summit Racing alone, not including Jeg's, OPGI, etc. 99 percent of time all is well. When there has been a glitch, it's been handled. The main thing, talk to their Tech Support before ordering stuff if there is a question. They don't package other manufacturer's stuff, so they don't know if stuff is missing in the box. They aren't O'Reilly's and look in every box. If you are using them as a normal parts store, then understand the normal part dynamics. That AC Delco steering pump that normally requires a core charge locally, is still going to require a core charge mail order. Plus someone has to ship it back. People want stuff for free - do your homework. Summit fills a need because local speed shops are darn near gone; parts stores do not have career parts professionals anymore because they mostly not locally owned; and most salvage yards have crushed most of the pre-2000 stuff. I am sure some of the negative reviews here are warranted, but most have a consumer fault associated with them - just read 'em. I recommend Summit Racing and will continue to use them."