My Blueprint crate engine story - May 2018

No offense Johnny but I bought one of those Professional Products harmonic balancers and it wound up costing mr $12,000. I installed one on my supercharged 340 that I built in 1988 (about 30 years ago) and I should have known when it just slid on my crankshaft without any effort. Well after it was on for a few months I stopped at a gas station to fill up the Dart. After filling up I started the car up and heard this horrendous knocking that sounded for all the world like a rod knock. I limped the Dart back home and the next day I got my buddy Larry's opinion on it . Larry was in agreement that it sounded like a rod knock so I started the wheels in motion to build a new engine. It was when I was disassembling the engine that I discovered that the the balancer had come loose and THAT was the cause of the knocking and it also tore up my timing cover on the process. When I built this engine I installed a Summit brand degreed balancer and it fit like they should (had to be pressed on. Just a heads up. Also even though I love the performance of my new 418 striker (490 horsepower and 516 ft pounds of torque) I might have been better off with the Blueprint Engines stroker as I have a oil leak (either rear main, camshaft plug or one of the two oil galley plugs) and it's coming out of the bell housing. Also I am building crankcase pressure and its pushing the dipstick out (might be why the main is leakin). I did a leakdown (the engine was cold and the cylinders were dry) but the cylinders varied fro a low of 3% to a high of 16%. Some have said that I need to not baby the engine but give it some full throttle blasts (dangerous with my tires LOL) and also gear down when coming to a stop, we'll see. Anyways this is where the BPE warranty comes in, maybe next time.
Well hopefully we can do some business in the future and save you some of those headaches. Although we don't directly sell that pro products damper, I have never personally seen one give it the issues you had. Sorry to hear about that. Customer is free to use any balancer they wish as long as its magnum weighted.