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Originally Posted by Jeff Lee
I'm talking about people going online with a concern about somebody else's issue. The issue is between the customer and the shop. Maybe the customer wants it that way and maybe the customer doesn't want the world to know about it?
Conversely, a guy getting work done to his engine may be getting some really trick (and legal) procedure done and the customer takes this trick to the internet "trying to be helpful to the community" or maybe "I just want to make sure this is legal so I'll post it for 20,000,000 viewers". I see it all the time. Problem is, the engine building (by real masters) industry is dyeing and now some keyboarder just wiped out 40 years of R&D in about 40 seconds. That's why there are some engine builders that make the customer sign agreements that none of the contents will be shared with others. May be difficult to enforce in court but it does set the tone.
Sorry, I'll get off that soap box now...
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Jeff
I know where you are coming from and this was no overindulgence of a secret as I have balanced numerous engines in my career. Adding heavy metal is not anything new to any one, but in this case, I know the customer that the engine is being built for and he and I discussed the addition of heavy metal and he too was of the opinion that adding heavy metal has, in the past, been a no no. He was tearing down at Indy beside another gentleman that got the same treat of getting to disassemble his parts for NHRA to look at. And they questioned his having a heavy slug of obvious heavy metal in the crankshaft. As we were finishing up our commitment to NHRA, I did not hear the end result of their discussion. But I have always installed the heavy metal and welded over it not to show. And to make you aware, if I were a shop doing secretive work for any one, I would never stop a prospective customer from coming thru my shop, but I would cover up something that I did not want him to see. If I pay for work, I reserve the right to see what is going into the motor at the time of build as I can look at it any time after that anyway. I dont expect them to tell me their secrets but I want to know that I am getting the parts they charged me for. I dont know how many people that I have seen be shorted by the crook that charged $1000 for a 4340 crank and later to find out it had a Chinese cast crank. Out local mechanics do it every day
charles