Only slightly funny, mostly sad

[b-body-bob]

I was hanging out yesterday at the parts hound's house, and a guy came in to pick up a 440 block he'd bought.

Turns out he'd had an engine built by a pretty well known CHEVY circle track engine builder. They put the engine in, started it up, and then noticed that it started seeping antifreeze out the side of the casting.

When confronted, the builder admitted he hadn't magnafluxed it, and that he thought the crack was a mold mark. I guess it didn't enter his head to hit it with a die grinder and find out ... or to have done the right thing and magnafluxed it to begin with.

The builder's eating the cost of machine work and labor to put the new parts into the replacement block the owner picked up yesterday. Bet they magnaflux it this time.

One of the last things he said was, "they can build an engine in 2 days", to which I added, "but if they magnaflux it, it takes 3".

 

[mr340]

Kinda sux to have all that work go down the drain like that, but like they say, "You get what you pay for..." [smilie=e:

 

[kamstra]

Its that old adage..

Doing it right takes less time than doing it over.

It is good to see an engine builder stand behind their work.

 

[Diplomat_Wagon]

It is good to see an engine builder stand behind their work.

Hear, hear! [smilie=e: [smilie=e:



Alot better then some of the bumf%^ks that do work out here!

 

[Dr.Jass]

...he'd had an engine built by a pretty well known CHEVY circle track engine builder... the builder admitted he hadn't magnafluxed it...

Now you know why Chevy guys say they're so cheap to build.

Seriously, that's like a disease with Chevy shops... a friend of mine who runs a circle-burner paid long green for a set of "rare" Chevy castings (this means that with attrition, there are only 250,000 sets left), and sent them out to one the "premier" circle-track shops in WI. He got his motor together, and it never ran like it should... he never really paid much mind to the minor coolant usage (or it didn't register) until it got so the loss was noticeable after one heat race. He pulled the heads to see what was up, and after half a season, you could see the crack from halfway across the pits.

He called the engine shop and asked them if they 'fluxed the heads, and they said no. He got a little upset, and asked them why the hell not, and the response he got was "you didn't tell us to." [smilie=e: Nor would they go good for anything done to that head. Luckily, the rest of the engine wasn't hurt.

Takes what--5 minutes to 'flux a block or head?

 

[b-body-bob]

It is good to see an engine builder stand behind their work.

In this case it is an absence of work they're standing behind. [smilie=e:

Always get your Mopar work done by an experienced Mopar shop (or individual)