[blykins]

I am responsible. Anything that leaves my shop that I build or someone else builds for me, I'm responsible for it.

I can't remember your situation, Tom....I found a couple of emails from 2016, but I can't remember the specifics.

I will say that even if the carburetors are built to someone else's specs, they shouldn't be 10:1 at cruise. I know we had a rash of blown power valves for a bit, maybe that was the case in your situation. But even if a jet is off by 3-4 numbers, it's not going to be that rich. Same thing with air bleeds. There has to be a pretty significant issue somewhere to make something have a 10:1 A/F ratio.

These things are machines, with parts that are made on assembly lines. There's a bell curve to everything and ever so often we get a piece that's on the outside of the curve. Stuff happens.

I couldn't begin to count how many carburetors I've sent out and can count issues that we've had on probably 3-4 fingers.

In Redhawk's case, he's dropped a few thousand feet in elevation, so it just needs retuned. Blow-through carbs generally need to be tuned on a chassis dyno anyway, but we will do what we can to get him close.

In your case, I would have appreciated it if you would have let me actually get the carb back here and go through it again before you issue out a caution to everyone. I can't make things right if never given a chance.