I bought some jegs 1.6 full roller rockers and the box says made in china and looks like the same ones on ebay for $105 so I sent them back and ordered comp ultra pro magnums. I just wanted to post this because I have seen people saying that the jegs rockers are made by comp and that's not true hope I helped in form some of the people wondering about it.

 

Good information - And probably a good move changing to a known commodity.

It's not that the Chinese can't produce good products if they try. The common problem is that they seem to NOT try so frequently. If Comp has move some production offshore or is importing a "budget" line that would be news, but as of yet I haven't discovered that.

 

its getting harder to find non chinesium parts. i repair cars on a daily basis, and its gotten to the point that im telling my customers that i warranty my work but NOT the parts that they choose.auto zone and advance seem to be the worst offenders. junk right out of the box.NAPA used to be the go to store but even they have begun to sell china junk

 

Thanks for the heads up: it's always good to confirm, that when something seems too good to be true, it's virtually always because it's a lie.

Even worse about the Chinese is, the vast majority of "private enterprise" commercial-like operations are "owned" by former PLA officers, who, along with Communist Party members, are the only ones who have any realistic chance at "free enterprise"; and, their government is openly militaristically hostile to the US. The rest of their people are helpless slaves the fruits of whose labor are stolen from them.

http://intelreport.mandiant.com/

Note that the people in the report, in particular "UglyGorilla", are the ones indicted in a US court the other day for these activities.

It will be a cold day in Hell before I will send those people as much as a dime of my money for anything, as long is there is an alternative. Doesn't matter how good their "price" is; I might just as well be hiring, financing, and paying my own executioner. (or my children's, or my grandchildren's... no matter the time frame, THEY ARE COMING, and we gullible generous lazy Americans are too stooopid to see it)

 

Yeah glad I could help and maybe save others some time and I would much rather spend the money with a US company.

 

It's a global market for everything. Even stuff that says made in america doesn't mean much. Normally it only means the product was finished or assembled in america. Something like rockers could have been fabricated in china then assembled in america and are still labeled made in america. I know a bunch of high end crankshafts are forged offshore then machined in america and are classified as made in america. Not everything is like that but there's still a huge amount of products that are and you'll never know about it. How many products do you buy that also say made in mexico? What difference does it really make?

If jegs has their name on the product then they were made to specifications requested by jegs and not some off the shelf, absolute minimum standard with poor quality and workmanship. An unbranded product is hit or miss and you get what you pay for. At least with a branded product, the company needs to stand behind what they're selling.

It's unlikely you're going to find many products that from scratch to finished product are made in in a single country, especially america.

As long as jegs has their name on the product and stands by their warranty then their stuff is just as good as anyone else's. Everybody's parts can fail. Some failures can be repaired or rebuild. More inexpensive stuff just needs to be thrown away and replaced. I know many brand name rollers rockers can be sent back to the company to be rebuilt or repaired. Something like the inexpensive offshore brands can not.

I had a Crane Gold rocker replaced when I broke a trunnion. The rocker looked identical to a Crane Energizer rocker so I popped out a trunnion to try and replace the broken one but found it wasn't even close to the same strength even though it was identical in size to fit the Crane Gold. Having a product that "looks the same as the ones on Ebay" doesn't mean much unless you can disassemble it and compare it to a known good brand version.

I could have had my Comp Cams stainless rockers repaired for less than the cost of a new set after damaging a bunch of them but I was able to sell the whole set "as is" to someone as spares. I upgraded to some T&D shaft rockers get excellent customer service but I also paid the price to buy high end parts. They already replaced the intake pedestals for a set to better match my valvetrain for only the cost of shipping.

 

Oh yeah that's true but I just didn't want to take the chance on rockers that I didn't know the quality or the bearings and when they fail and you don't have your block screened and I don't then you are screwed I was just informing people but for me $207.99 vs $324.99 its not worth the risk now an intake or something is different because there's not much chance of catastrophic failure

Also many people don't know but I live just out side of Memphis where comp is located and have 4 friends that work there and I bought some oe style roller lifters from comp and found out that there is really only like 2 companies that make them and all the other companies just put there name on them so I sold them and bought some gm performance ones from jegs and were way cheaper and looked the exact same.

 

Morel makes a majority of the high end lifters for most of the companies out there. Most of Jegs stuff is imported and made in China. There are a few exceptions (like their cylinder heads) but collectively - they're cheap for a reason.

 

There is one and only one brand that everyone tries to compare to.Jessel.

 

I didn't like the way Jessel did the pedestals for my engine. That's why I went with T&D. A shaft rocker system for a street car is overkill but it's a far superior system over stud mount rockers.

 

By the time you buy all the necessary hardware the cost is very close. I am working in conjunction with Shelton at LGM on a few projects and his rockers are awesome for the cost. I don't think they're overkill considering they really keep adjustments spot on. They're a must have if you've got a aggressive solid roller in a street car.