408 Stroker Short Block Details: Blueprint Engines
This is pretty difficult to watch. Maybe real opinions could be formed after speaking with someone who sells dozens of these a week? or from someone with actual FIRST HAND experience with this company THIS DECADE, opposed to digging up decade old threads and polluting what appears to be a polite attempt of the OP to show the forum a product he spent his hard earned money on, and perhaps share a budget oriented offering with you guys?
I'm not talking about any one company. They ALL operate on the same premise. I can read the online warranty and see that while the numbers may be higher, those warranties are designed to save the engine builder money. And sometimes make the company money. That is a FACT.
In fact, I wrote a 100k/ 10 year "Gold Star" warranty program. Instead of cast rings we used moly. Instead of the standard silent chain we used a double roller. And we used all new valves and springs.
That cost the company about $50.00 and we charged the customer a $1500.00 premium for it. It did have a 100k warrant, but I wrote it, the lawyers went over it and then the owner and I signed off on it. To actually even have a warranty, we had to do the install, or an authorized center we chose. You have to have PROOF of a new water pump installed, all new hoses, a new thermostat, and had to PROVE you either had your radiator serviced or bought a new one. You had to have PROOF of oil changes every 5000k miles at the most and you couldn't just show you bought oil and a filter. You had to have a third party receipt with the mileage on it. We had a 50 point checklist that had to be filled out and sent back or no warranty.
The real idea was to charge for warranty that the customer would never use. Most people who buy an engine from places like that don't keep the car more than 3 years on average (we did the research and that's what we found) so in all likelihood we'd never even have a warranty because they didn't keep the car. We did offer an option for $750.00 that would allow a one time warranty transfer. But, they had to have all the paperwork required that the first owner had.
We never put the warranty into effect, but our early tests said about 35 per cent of our customers would go for it.
The company sold, I was fired and then it went broke.
Again, that's how the whole industry operates. I could say more. But why?
