Not sure where to post this, but wanted to ask if anyone else has had problems with this? Especially aftermarket performance parts.
but since edelbrock, comp cams and crane cams combined. The three major companies i have bought from in the last year, parts are hit and miss.
mostly from parts discontinued to confusion between the three.

 

I'm still waiting for a head I ordered November 2020.

 

I've heard Edelbrock stuff is just about impossible to get. All cam companies are having trouble getting cores, lifters and some other components. ARP is horribly back ordered too. I've been waiting on a set of head studs for an aluminum block Small Block Chevy since May.

 

I have been trying to get some parts i had bought before to find out that they are discontinued and they will no longer make/supply them.

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i have been following your thread. I told my wife that it would really suck to find out that they quit making that head being as you have one and have waited so long for the other. What do you do then? Cant run half of a motor

 

Well, a single head is useless, so it is now an expensive part in a box.
I can cancel my order, been advised not to. It is tempting to cut my losses, and probably not ever deal with Edelbrock again, but I'm holding out, I have faith.

Last conversation I had with Edelbrock:

 

Its bad all over the place. I'd suggest calling around your machine shops, them, or their suppliers may have parts laying on the shelves.

 

Found some in Australia, no returns, shipping $800, must buy 2. Close to $3000. Not that desperate, yet.
Reply from Summit:

 

Man my problems with was aggravating, the people at summit was very helpful in finding substitute parts.
your situation would have plum ticked off.

 

Hmmm...not far from me...and their smartmouth tone, would be unacceptable, not being an original southerner, we dont take too kindly to transplants mouthing off, before they get invited to a schindig, I can go drain their cement pond, and kick rocks in their boots

 

I paid for it one year ago, it’s a loss at this point, going to wait and see if it ever gets manufactured… IF everybody orders Ford heads we can bump the Chevy guys.

ive got 6 or 9heads E7 heads , think ill port them, and build a flow meter while I wait.

 

Personally, I have never used anything from these companies for about the past 30 years..... the last was from crane when the family still had it. I just don't consider them to be reputable with many of their parts....with the exception of the Eddy manifolds (made in the 2000+.

 

Welcome to the club. The Crane roller truckmax cam I bought a year and a half ago I cant get another one if I need or wanted to cause Crane doesnt exist anymore neither does their grinds.

Then all automotive parts are on back order right now due to the break down of the supply chain and supply ships sitting off the coast with cargo.

I ordered a set of Manley 6.400" pushrods in 0.120" wall thickness for my 302 build for my truck, I ordered them Aug 5, 2021 and they arent scheduled to ship out from manley till Oct 31, 2021. So my engine build has been on hold for months now as I cant put valve covers on and I cant prime the oil pump and pressurize the oil system to make sure I got good oil pressure and all pushrods are oiling till after I get the pushrods so I can set valve lash.

In the mean time I am just playing around with ideas for routing the 3/8" stainless steel fuel line I am custom making for my sniper. At least I can still do this while waiting on parts that are out of stock to come in.

Also to show how bad it is, blueprint has been out of their 302 short blocks since Feb 2020 and they are still out of stock. The long block last I checked has been out of stock since June 2020.

 

If you can get subsitute parts I say go for it cause this supply chain bs is not going to get better any time soon. I cant do that with the pushrods I ordered months ago cause there is no other brand out there for pushrods in the size I need for my 302 build. All this is doing is just delaying my installation of my engine from fall/winter of this year to spring next year as the earliest.

 

And they dont care about it because if you send the head back and cancel the order its already sold to someone else that has been waiting. This "new world" as they want to call it is total bs cause they are using excuses after excuses to justify their long delay. Yet I can buy restoration parts for my vehicles and get them in a matter of days. How are they not running out of raw materials to build restoration parts but yet hot rod parts are some how being hit? Like wise how can I go to amazon and find the same part listed as out of stock and buy it in stock from Amazon. I ran into that with ARP bolts, summit and jegs were out of stock and wouldnt ship for 3 months. I found it on amazon with free prime shipping in stock ship today.

 

I think if I was living in a bubble, I'd find it very hard to believe that places are this short staffed, having this much trouble getting supplies, etc. The manufacturing facility that I work for has several thousand employees, and has a ton of openings that they are having a very difficult time filling on top of the temporary openings caused by employees getting covid tested or being out for 2 weeks after testing postive. To try and fill positions, they have jacked the starting wages way up. More than 2x what it was 8 years ago, and still can't fill positions. Everyone is working heinous amounts of mandatory overtime to meet the current demand. It's like that all around us. We didn't have these issues pre-covid. There are constant issues with parts shortages, electrical components, raw materials, etc.
On top of that, a bunch of people were never out of work (myself included) received all the "stimulus" money that they absolutely didn't need. Most of these people blew the money on stuff they didn't need, including car parts. I found it almost comical the number of people that were on various facebook groups posting the $1200 worth of parts they were buying as soon as they got their first stimulus checks. That sudden fluctuation of demand, coupled with the instability of the work force is a nightmare for a manufacturer. Luckily I hadn't planned to build anything during this time frame, but trying to source engine parts for other people is a huge hassle, not to mention all of the quality control issues that all are facing.