Thanks for your reply and detail and I understand your frustration. Being in OH, we are blessed with many quality machine shops in state and in IN, TN and even MI are not that far away. In my post, I don't want to indicate we never have problems. We have many of them and do our best to overcome in each situation and send a customer home happy. Just last month we built a SBC solid roller 350 that was expected to make 600HP. First pull on the dyno it breaks a T@D shaft rocker arm in two at the trunion. Owner supplied the shaft system. He calls T@D and sends all the stuff back to them. They insist something is wrong with the build or the geometry or piston to valve clearance and refuse to do anything to remedy the situation. He ends up eating $1300.00 worth of T@D junk. We buy and install Crower stud mounted steel rockers and a stud girdle for half the price. It makes 606 HP @ 7400 RPM. We make 23 pulls, no issues. But the customer is still out the $1300.00. So he is "sort of" happy. A good shop will go the extra mile to try and resolve issues. In all honesty, a Pontiac is a simple engine to build as far as V-8 engines go. I wish you were closer to the midwest! Best of luck with your engine, and YOU built it. That's worth allot in my book.
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