Date Posted:19:13:33 03/18/04 Thu Author:fastz Subject: saw this on another page
Definately buy the DART
Author:
John
[Edit] Date Posted: 17:59:43 03/16/04 Tue
I am going through a bunch of bullshit right now with Mike Weinle and world products, I bought a 598 shortblock from Mike at the end of last season,all new but the crank,it was to be a 10/10 Crower in perfect shape, I had also asked to be sure that it was NOT in a grenaded motor.
Well make a long story short, Ive got a $5000++ set of Oliver billets and J-E pistons. The crank had been broke in half and welded back together (a very shity job I might add,sharp edges through out the crank from a grinder, the oil journal is twice the normal size along with a very visible crack inside the hole.
The Block, all of the main webs,saddle and bearing registers are missing half of the machined surface,(very heavy porosity) the rear cap where the oil galley goes through to pressure up the block is missing casting and on top of it all, Mike bult up some of the registers and bearing saddles with epoxy to try and hold everything square, oh, the block was cut down to 10.149 from the speced 10.200. This is a brand new merlin block!
After several calls,Mike of course is a flake and Keith with World Products told us there isnt anything that they will do for us, Out of his own mouth he told us that they have just as much problems with porosity that detroit has.
