My deal is like Ed. I don;t say or put in writing a warrenty. However, I have spent many a night at a customers house, helping with issues, or minor problems etc. Knock on wood, I have had very minimal problems over the years. A few flattened cam loabs, abd some thrust bearing issues, but an engine thats actualy come apart, no. Is it my fault that a thrust bearing gets chewed, and causes issues, because the guy used the wrong bolts for the flywheel, jamming them into the back of the block, taking all the thrust out, or using a balloned converter, and killing the thrust. Or, makes a mistake adjusting his lash, after 100 passes, and many street miles, and bends a valve. Or his high side MSD chip in his 2 step is dead, and it tags 9500 in the water box, floats the valves, and bends some valves, after 2 seasons and 300 passes?
Like I said, the warrenty, is VERY conditional, and like I said, if you think they will just hand you a freshy, yah right. Most of the warrenty's, by like Shmmidt, or Awesome engines, or some of these others like from Mitchel, are also VERY conditional, and there is a LONG list of conditions. Us engine guys, can pretty well tell what happened to an engine, if there is an issue. All these warrenty's, are thru an independant insurance company, and, have a very limited value. Usualy $3000-$5000. So, these shops, get the engine back, if the warrenty company approves it, they can usualy fix it for that amount.
But yah, I have ate a lot of money over the years, helping guys out, because for that "word of mouth" thing. If you don;t you get bashed. Even if it wasn;t anything you did.
Frank
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