Wow, I had no idea this thread had turned into such a pissing match. I guess my Email notifications aren't working properly.
You're right Wade I do owe you an apology. I double typed the zeros in my previous post. I have spent over 20 hours on the phone with you, not 200. 200 hours on the phone is a ridiculous number.
I'm usually pretty good at re-reading my posts for spelling/typos, but every once in a while one slips through.
Everybody has a budget they need their build to fit into. That is a fact that I deal with every day. I will never fault anyone for having champagne tastes on a beer budget, that certainly was not the intent of my post.
The fact that you started as an unlimited engine build and have now had to scale back your operation is a problem I'm sure many are facing in today's economic times.
Your bad engine deals along with this type of scale back do tend to raise a few red flags. Hopefully it is all a coincidence/misunderstanding.
Crossing over the line is when you start to post rumors about failures you have no direct experience with, these I regard as attacks on my company and rest assured, I will respond in kind.
In this case you have combined our conversations with regard to Fluidamper crank snout failures, internal vs external balancing, mismatched injectors, crank failures behind the first rod throw and second main bearing journal and stroker cranks all into one and come to the conclusion you posted previously.
And the apology goes to................
