[RICK LAKE]

Anthony I live 500 miles from Dove and have driven to the place to get my parts. I do a final inpection before I pay for them. The Waiting period is 10 months for every part but the timing cover. I think it was a cleanup scrap but had no problem with it. I am not going to beat the poor manufactoring into the ground. The problem is the people he hired. $6.00 per hour who speakie no english and get a 15 minute training on how to use a 3 head CNC machine is alot of Jim's problem. He can't be everywhere. A got my MR manifold there after a 10 month wait, thanks to Earl running blocker. I got a tour of the new area and foundry section. I watched an so call machinist destoryed 1 manifold and snapped to bits of a new CNC machine because the piece was not clamped down, and the job was not centered on the bed. Dove could have cornered the market for FE products if he knew manufacturing. He is a machinist just like Paul at PSE. I do know of people who have gotten poor qualitity parts and returned them 3,4,5 times and gotten new parts. Money lost was for the porting of heads and other trick work. I guess the bottom line is that when I am spending $500-2,000 dollars from a questionable company like Dove I will Drive 500 miles for my parts and check them right there. Maybe this is why I have had no problems yet. I have had to clean up some of the castings and one needed to be redrilled to center a hole. I couldn't see this without a FE head to check and wouldn't use one of there's. Any way we are lucky in the fact that Shelby,Blue thunder, Pond's, Genises, and others are maken FE parts again. The cream will raise to the top. The road may still be bumpy. Rick Lake