[Clois Harlan]

Eddy,

I had a complete melt down within 15 mins. of my brand new built 427 from a guy here that had a glowing repitation and history of building 427 engines. He had became so successful he let his young shop help do the work (tolerances set at .001). About a $3,000 additional cost at my old machinist here in Tulsa. Problems started when we were able to buy some std bore blocks from this guy from his inventory but he insisted on doing the machine work. Package deal (had it been right) was not cheap but fair In fact we let Mr. Kirk build two at once, mine and Dean Lampe's and they both cratered with in 10 mins of each other. I think he put over $20K in his pocket and we furnished most of the core parts (pistons, rods, rings, bearings, cam, etc.)

Law suit was not an option since we had broken them in on a Dyno and then were in our warm up laps at a local road course. Yea, we were pissed. His shop was in central OK. just in case anyone needed to know.

Clois