RE: Alpine part source recommendation

From: Jay Laifman (Jay_Laifman(at)countrywide.com)
Date: Fri Jan 15 1999 - 09:58:06 CST


Kurt says it as it is:
>I would not buy anything from Victoria British except for standard
mechanical
>stuff. Their carpets are complete crap and I have heard nothing but bad
comments
>about their rubber products. I don't know about seat covers etc. but if it
>requires a nice fit and good workmanship they don't do a good job.

I bought the complete VB kit. When I was trying to install it 5 years
later, long after it was too late to return, I discovered how bad it really
is. I repurchased just about every piece from SS. An expensive lesson.

But, I would add that even with the mechanical stuff you have to be
careful. I bought the servo VB offered. Turns out it is not the one that
SS sells - and neither were the one Lockheed wrote me and told me was the
one the recommend for the car! If I recall correctly, the stock servo
boost is 3.0:1, the SS one was 2.5:1 and the VB one was 1.9:1. Now
granted, you may want less boost - and many of us are not even running
servos at all - but the point is the parts may not be the same.

Jay



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