Well imagine my suprise. The brick and mortar for this web site is 10 min. from my work. I went and talked to the owner. He orders his ARP stuff once per month. He had just placed this months order. Some yahoo from Kansas just picked up his last main studs kit :lol:
I talked to him about the Head Studs. He said that he does not stock that part because he does not see that many Cosworth Escorts :shock: . I informed him about the cross fit of these parts for our Diesel applications. He looked up his costs for this part and it was more than Summit's. I talked with him for a while and he said he might be able to match the summit price. He will look at his price structure for offering these three components as a package deal.
I informed him of the back order status of the con rod bolts from summit. He informed me that it may just be summit. He will call ARP and check availability.
He group orders with another vendor in order to get his better prices. If he orders early, they wack him with some additional fee's.
If he can match summit on the head studs, than this will be the best deal going, even with shipping costs. Of course the walk in the door pick up will save an extra 6 bucks
He will e-mail me tonight about this.
He may just update his page, or pass on the info to me, who knows. It would be helpful if we could give him a rough idea of interest. He was worried about shelling out a bunch of cash for stock that would sit and not sell.
Let ya know as I hear something. Jim