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I have a Southern built shelby engine in my car , as with any mechanical part , failures do happen, not only from Southern but ALL the companies building engines.I have never had a problem talking to Bill or Susan and even to this day call him on advice on what I am thinking of doing. When redoing engines that are this old and in some cases abused, some failures do occure, I personally know of a few and either Bill replaced or returned their money. I know the same holds true for Craft and others, the one thing I would do differently, is be more knolegable on what I exactly wanted and expected as far as HP and TQ and what kind of driving would be done, redoin things after the fact is expensive.Don't get hung up on how much HP or TQ you can get, the question is how much is usable and still have fun driving not fixing things you broke.

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