Just because some money-grubbing hotrod shop sells a "kit" that's supposed to work doesn't mean they've got the engineering expertise to make sure their cobbled-together assortment of mismatched parts is going to be safe, especially if the guy installing it welds it up after catching a bad case of "Budweiser Fever"!
Jerry
I suspect most of the suppliers know less about steering fundamentals than Jethro Bodine. But most of these suppliers (I'll be careful not to say all of them) have a commercial insurance program including an umbrella cover...and your auto insurer is going to start looking for subrogation possibilities about five seconds after they figure out your front end isn't what GM designed for your vehicle. If they decide to cover the claim at all (and subrogation possibilities will be high on their list of reasons they might want to grant you coverage). If your insurer can claim the seller (we'll call that operation Speed Crazy Paradise) and the product they sold caused or even contributed to the problem, then you can bet your bippy your insurer will drag him in. When Speed Crazy's insurance company gets involved, they will drag in the maker of the kit (we'll call that operation Big Donkey Head Front Ends), and then everybody will get to write a check for something. Unless of course somebody in this chain agreed to sign a waiver of subrogation in order to get a cheaper price, faster delivery, captive market protection or whatever. Then things often start collapsing like a wet taco. Naturally it won't work well if your auto insurer (let's call them Lloyds of Lubbock) also insures Speed Crazy and Big Donkey Head. And I've seen this happen several times.
