Summit Electric Cutout Kits Beware!

Oklacarcollecto said

Are they supposed to hang way down like that? It looks like it is about 2" lower than the exhaust pipe. If so I wouldn't want to deal with them. All the problems with low hanging headers come to mind.
The design sucks and that is why it pays mock up everything before welding.

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I don't think the design sucks at all. The placement of the cut outs in the exhaust system is the problem. Which is what happens when you weld up the system before you actually mock everything up to see how it will fit. You can even see that the cut out pipes are angled down, which lowers the electric cut outs.

The Doug's are definitely nicer, but they also cost quite a bit more than Summit's kit, over a $100 more in fact. For $100 I think it's easy enough to cut the exhaust flange off the cut out extension, rotate it and weld it back on.

Even with high end components you have to mock everything up before you start making things permanent. That's the way it goes with aftermarket parts, even the Doug's kit looks like it could cause issues if you didn't leave room for it in the right places. Summit's kit looks like it might take a little more planning than the Doug's kit to install, but there's already two people in this thread that made it work just fine.