Originally Posted by bjuice
ok Bill let me throw a wrench into this...say the person paid for the lifter bore sleeves etc...and the lifter still failed causing other problems...for the sake of argument lets just say it wiped out the cam,lifters, spun a cam bearing to where the block could not be straighten out with a line bore..bottom line customer needs new block, bearings,cam,lifters and what ever else it hurt along with all the machine work and assembly...how much of this would you cover ?
lets wrench it on up and lets say the lifters failed 1 year out after 200 passes or 2500 road miles, or the lifters failed during a botched valve train adjustment..( human error) that would be hard to prove or dis-approve after the fact...
My point i am trying to get at is Where do you draw the line as an engine builder ?..
not trying to be controversial but i can see a custom engine builder being put out of business real fast with some of the knuckle heads out here..
i am in NO WAY trying to defend these mass engine assemblers such as DYNO-FLO where the over sight was so obvious it hurt..
Brian
We fully warranty our race engines while on the dyno and afterwords if it is a problem that I feel I should cover.two years ago I 100% warrantied two engines,both super late model with aluminum blocks because of rod bolt failure. the first one made it through the dyno session and failed on the track. there was never a question whether i would cover it because it was obvious the rod bolt failed. the crank was perfect other than the large ding where it kicked the rod through the block,same with the bearing, bent but perfect. the second engine with the same brand of bolts failed on my dyno,I warrantied that as well. both engines cost me well over $15,000.00 and the bolt manufacture denied all responsibility so it came out of my pocket.
In the long run I made out because both these customers highly recommend me and have sent me a ton of work, we have also become good friends.
Bottom line,warranty work is on a case by case deal. I do what I would like a shop to do for me but I don't cover stuff that is obviously not a part failure or machine error. example of whats not covered. bottom end failure due to oil pump belt breakage or severe overheating. even then if its less than 30 days since we built the engine we will do the labor for free or at a large discount just to help the racer out. Bill