[ERA Chas]

Commander,
I agree with your above statement entirely.
I can see now the source of the misunderstanding between us. The following quote from your post # 21: "by the way, your 8.2 deck block business may decline in the near term as Ford has released their BOSS 302 block which for actual all out performance and strength, looks great. Though I don't believe it will be available in aluminum, just diesel-quality iron."
I inferred from this that you meant that the Boss block was superior to ours in terms of "...all out performance and strength...". I responded to your assertion by comparing our part and it's features to the OE to demonstrate the fact that the Boss is not. My view is that the Boss is an improvement to other existing FRPP offerings but is designed to a less-demanding audience than ours.
I appreciate and agree with the following from Post # 32: "I don't mind that people don't know every lit bit of trivia about a subject. I get a little bent when they denigrate a competitor undeservedly though."
I am scrupulous in all my advertising for our Company to never diminish a competitors products as that's a very unethical and hazardous game to play. If you think you've got something good, it's OK to tell the world-the public will "get it" without attaching a stigma to the competition.
My only agenda for you was to explain in detail, superior features-which are not known to the casual enthusiast-because you have the technical understanding to appreciate them and I wished to enlighten your opinion and change your mind. All because I thought you meant that the Boss was going to hurt our sales with a superior product.
At no time did I wish to denigrate Ford-for as I believe Rick Parker said, they are attempting to recapture the market they invented-or words of substance.
Companys like ours and our competitors owe a great debt to the OE's so we might develop improvements to the always difficult to accomplish original design.
Finally, I can see how my comment about the priority in the FRPP advertising of the location of the Boss logo can be viewed as "bashing". If that's so, I apologize to those who thought so. My intention was to point out the dearth of engineering features which would constitute a superior design.
My only intention here on CC is to inform the group about our stuff, and when compared by the members to other designs, discuss frankly any differences in a factual way. We wish to offer our parts as a quality alternative choice to the highly popular manufacturers and builders here and to answer questions about them.
Thanks,