MRL Performance 470 stroker

EchoSixMike said

I can tell you from 5 yrs experience in a race engine shop; most people can not put together their own race engines, and what's worse, many think they can, but are wrong. Engines you can't turn over with a breaker bar, engines which have filters full of metal after dyno break in, engines which blow up on the dyno whereupon they start trying to blame you. Usually it's just "Man, I thought it'd make more than that....."

There's very few cases where you get something for nothing. S/F....Ken M

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Been doing this stuff for decades and I'm always surprised by how many guys can't degree a cam, check valve to piston clearance, or even know to set and measure thrust bearing clearance.

Yet these guys call themselves builders.

I honed a block for a guy (we did all the machine work but the hone was the issue) and he put it together. Later learned he was doing it for his "customer" and told that "customer" he did the work. Anyway, that thing smoked like a crop duster. Naturally, the dumbass who put it together ran around telling everyone I couldn't finish a bore, that I was a prick because I said I highly doubt it was my bore finish and other stuff. After putting Bon Ami down the carb and destroying everything, the idiot took it apart and realized HE forgot to install the spacers under the oil ring because the wrist pin went through the oil ring.

That crap happens all the time. I also know a guy who buys used stuff and next to nothing, had me do all the work and then sells it as his work.

Crazy stuff.