procomp ignition box

I'm wearing my product development manager's hat as I type this: Matt C is correct. It's easier in Taiwan and South Korea, but it is absolutely possible to get good quality products out of China. It takes a great deal of dilligence; you have to winnow out the many job shops that aren't capable of adhering to specifications and doing careful work, but there are good, competent, honest job shops in mainland China, and there are auto parts of perfectly good quality coming from mainland China. There is, of course, also a great deal of the worst kind of garbage coming from mainland China. This is largely the fault of the American companies who either don't know how to do QA and QC with a Chinese manufacturer, or don't care/bother to do so because their first and only priority is low cost. What's even more interesting (and infuriating) is that the problems we see in America with Chinese auto parts are basically nonexistent in Europe and the many countries around the world (essentially every industrialised country outside North America) that use European auto safety regulations. Those regulations include type-approval tests to make sure any given part design meets the standards, and and conformity-of-production tests to make sure the series-production parts (not just the initial-production samples submitted for type approval) continue to meet the standards.

We don't have type approval or COP in North America; our regulations work on a "self certification" basis wherein the manufacturer or importer basically says "Yeah, yeah, we promise our stuff is OK" and unless dead bodies and twisted metal start piling up, the DOT usually won't check on it. So guess where auto parts that flunk TA/COP tests wind up getting sold? Guess which country the job shops incapable of adhering to standards and specs court their business? Right: America.

(Lead69, there's plenty of junk in the Summit catalogue. A "free replacement" guarantee is a sales gimmick; when you're stuck by the side of the road with a dead part, it's no good knowing you can get a free replacement for the crap whitebox no-name Chinese ignition box or voltage regulator or fuel pressure regulator or whatever you bought out of the Summit book.)