Glad you asked, boy. I am always more than pleased to back up my statements. Some of the excerpts that I categorize as Bullshit include:
*I would never do another crate motor. Mine lasted about 50 miles. Now, what value is a statement like that to the OP or anyone else? Maybe some more details would better illustrate that point.
*If you can run your cable box you can do this. I disagree with this statement because I am smart enough to know that I don't know what I don't know. Sure, those of you that have been building engines for years would agree with this, but not everyone who reads these posts is in that boat. As for myself, I feel that my best efforts in building an engine would never be risk free. And that risk would come with no recourse whatsoever. Whatever risk I might be exposed to with my crate engine I consider infinitely smaller then if doing it myself, and if it breaks their warranty will provide some amount of recourse to me - which can only be determined when and if we get to that point. Either way, if it is greater than zero it's more than I've got if I go it alone. And let's not forget that I could never do it myself for the price I paid to Blueprint. Not even close.
*A lot of the people who buy crate engines don't know a connecting rod from a rocker arm. What is the source of that claim? A false generalization of Crate engine customers.
*you won't get that deep sense of accomplishment from buying a crate. Maybe He won't, but who says noone else will? Crate engines are available in short or long block configurations so people can buy according to their own comfort levels or stash of spare parts. I say let the OP (or others in the same boat who will read this thread) decide for themselves.
*the labor to pull the engine ...... one of the biggest parts of dealing with any engine issue. I kind of doubt that.
In the original post, the OP was looking for feedback to help him decide his course of action. How exactly does any of the above do that?? Over the years, I have searched for and found information on FABO that has been helpful to me to extents that I would never have imagined. BUT in locating that valuable information I have had to sift through piles and piles of speculation, subjective rhetoric, personal bias and good old fashioned Old Wives Tales (you know, Bullshit) to get to what I felt was the truth. When I give feedback, I do my best to stick to the facts and let the OP form his own opinion rather then inflicting my opinion on them. Given my overall success (a few minor glitches along the way) on my project I seem to have waded through it all OK.
If anyone out there has had a Blueprint Engine grenade on them, well let's hear about it.
If anyone with a grenaded Blueprint Engine got fucked over the warranty, well then by all means let's hear about it.
I don't care what anybody does to their own car - there are no wrong answers if it makes the owner happy. My problem is with statements that start with the implied "I think" rather than "I know". No value there.
Hope this answers your question, and no hard feelings to any of the posters to this thread.
