Summit Racing Max 500 Efi Kit 240500, model year 9999. Filed by Fuel Injection Technology, Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 2 May 2018. 1,071 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Fuel Injection Technology, Inc. (FiTech) is recalling certain Summit Racing Max 500-EFI 240500 fuel injection systems. The fuel injector O-ring seals may leak fuel.
Is your vehicle included? Check with your VIN at NHTSA, or ask a dealer. This page is an independent copy of the notice, kept so you can see what changed after it was published. It is not the authority, and the authority’s own text is the one to act on.
Summit Racing's own number for this recall: 18-01. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 18E029 is the number NHTSA gave the same campaign, and the number this page is filed under. They are one recall, written two ways.
What owners ask about this recall
- Which vehicles does recall 18E029 cover?
- Summit Racing Max 500 Efi Kit 240500.
- What is wrong with them?
- Fuel Injection Technology, Inc. (FiTech) is recalling certain Summit Racing Max 500-EFI 240500 fuel injection systems. The fuel injector O-ring seals may leak fuel.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- A fuel leak in the presence of an ignition source can increase the risk of a fire.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. FiTech will notify the purchasers and will replace the fuel rails, O-rings and any related parts, free of charge. The recall began on May 15, 2018. Owners may contact FiTech customer service at 1-951-340-2624. FiTech's number for this recall is 18-01.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Summit Racing calls this recall 18-01, which is the number on the owner letter and the dealer paperwork.
Answered from the register this site holds. NHTSA is the record to act on.
What the authority says can happen if this is not fixed: “A fuel leak in the presence of an ignition source can increase the risk of a fire.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 18E029 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Fuel Injection Technology, Inc. |
| System at fault | Fuel System, Gasoline:Fuel Injection System |
| Reported to NHTSA | 2 May 2018 |
| Model years | 9999-9999 |
| Vehicles named | SUMMIT RACING MAX 500 EFI KIT 240500 |
What the notice says today
The consequence
A fuel leak in the presence of an ignition source can increase the risk of a fire.
The remedy
FiTech will notify the purchasers and will replace the fuel rails, O-rings and any related parts, free of charge. The recall began on May 15, 2018. Owners may contact FiTech customer service at 1-951-340-2624. FiTech's number for this recall is 18-01.
What it said before
This campaign is in the register but not yet in the dated wording archive, so we cannot yet say whether its text has moved. It enters the archive on the next pass.
This is one of 470 notices in the record whose component field names fuel system, gasoline. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 46 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
How to cite this record
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 18E029, wording as read on 15 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/18e029/
The cross-border matches used on this site are deposited as a citable dataset: doi:10.5281/zenodo.22087136. The recall wording itself is published by the national authority named above and is theirs, not ours.
The recall record and its wording are published by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and are US Government public domain. The dated archive, the comparison and any before-and-after above are CarsMultiverse. How fresh every engine behind this page is, is public on the status page. To check a specific vehicle, use NHTSA’s own VIN lookup.
The fingerprint of this notice
We take a SHA-256 of each of the three blocks of text the authority publishes and keep the first eight characters. As we last read campaign 18E029 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
9105c016 - Consequence
703dc06b - Remedy
91562dea
We first read this notice on 21 August 2026. It has not moved since. If it ever does, these characters will not match, and the change will be dated here.
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