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I do not wish to engage Ed Page in this response.
These are all countless examples of Ed Page misrepresenting the facts. Please know that he bought a street engine that was going to make power by virtue of the turbos. Ed now wants a race engine with race components.
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Please be specific.
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Ed's pictures showing the valve cover are his attempt to "rebuild" this engine not according to the original agreed upon design. The pictures only show his lack of abilities and nothing else with regard to header installation. He also is trying to install valve covers that were never intended to go on this engine from the start. (see pictures).
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The aluminum valve covers where shipped to BES, they installed them. I guess you could say they rebuilt the engine. They are Pontiac valve covers and they do fit this engine, they just don’t fit with the driver’s side header installed.
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This engine was built by multiple Engine Masters Tournament champion Tony Bischoff of BES racing engines. It performed on the dyno remarkably without failure. Tony has proven himself to Super Stock, Stock, NMCA winning racers in the Pontiac community. Tony completely disassembled the engine after dyno for a complete inspection and everything checked out fine.
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Tony mentioned cutting the filter open, nothing about tearing down the engine. Are you sure?
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It became clear towards the end that Ed decided he wanted something different from what he ordered. He tried to change things after it was too late. Largely these were ideas obtained from the internet public who did not know the facts of the original design and build. It was changed from street engine to race engine. We tried to accomodate Ed's changes where possible which severely affected his end cost.
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Again, the day 1 goal was 1600hp on “Pump Gas” What specifically did I want changed after it was too late?
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Ed continues to "redo" this engine for not what was originally contracted. His misrepresentation of the facts are somewhat astounding, but mostly hyperbole and twisted facts to promote his agenda.
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Nothing except the balancer has been changed thus far. I’d like to see that contract you keep mentioning.
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My contractors are respected contractors of the community and have done countless projects successfully. We cannot turn an engine into something that was not designed in the beginning. If Ed installed this engine and ran it, it would be fine. He is simply too afraid to run it.
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They do have stellar reputations, how many successful projects of this scale have they done with you?
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His pictures of header installation only prove that he has no idea how to install headers. It took me only about 10 minutes to install them, however we installed them with OEM valve covers that were modified specially to fit Ed's engine. The valve covers that Ed is showing in his photos are not the same valve covers.
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There is no way you attached these headers to my set of RA-V heads and installed EVERY header bolt or even header studs. The holes in the flange don’t line up with all the holes in the head. YES it’s a simple fix, but is shows a lack of attention to detail.
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I am attaching photos of the engine with the valve covers and headers that we installed. Ed has disassembled the engine. Please know that all items due to his disassemble are suspect.
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Yes, I remember these pictures well. They looked great, do you also remember me asking for you to take a picture from directly in front of the engine so I could see how much clearance there was? Would you like to know the date and time the questions was asked and the date and time of your response?
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This was a great engine that outperformed most other turbo engines of a more RACE character as a street engine. With Ed's tampering we cannot be sure what is good craftmanship remains. I ask repeatly ask Ed to stop with doctored, highlighted & magnified pictures and other misrepresentations.
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Only the valve covers, incorrect rocker studs, rockers and balancer have been removed. The rest of the engine will be disassembled and check by a reputable 3rd party. With regards to the pictures, the only editing was highlighting problem areas and resizing the photos as they were taken with a very high resolution digital camera. The originals can be made available upon request.
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It is this ad nauseum of misrepresentation of the truth that prevents my comments for any useful conclusion. As an example, I was at Norwalk showing my product Saturday and Sunday. It is a perfect example of how Ed tries to misconstrue the facts to promote his agenda. Ed will never be satisfied, and there are far too many misrepresentations to address them all.
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I’ve got to ask… Did anyone see Lynn and his products at the 2012 PY Nationals this year?