[Steve C.]

Details here if you care to dig:

http://forums.maxperformanceinc.com/...highlight=MR-1

And here, more than one block involved:

http://forums.maxperformanceinc.com/...highlight=MR-1

[Skip Fix]

Mr. Stallion I use my own name. I used the Kaufmans before there was a KRE and "thought" I was a valued customer at one point and but had issues with a few things I got from them. I can not speak of one of them at this time that was referenced in one of these links. As Steve said there are other folks involved.

I'm sure this thread will get locked or a warning not to make it a KRE bashing. All you have to do is do a "search" to find out more data on these topics.

I think the question he had was valid -please clear up for us how did final boring, or lifter boring affect the cylinder wall thickness, the quality of cast iron used-both of which KRE had advertised as specific specs that were in fact not accurate when actually measured.Or make the cam bore incorrect. Final cleanup hone should not have affected the numbers as they were advertised at that bore.

I agree they are doing what a business should to protect themselves once customer service has failed.

We can get a number of first hand knowledge folks on the other side from the cheerleaders also, but we've been down that road before.

As Tom said at least no one got killed, and the legal repercussions still go on.

[440GP69]

Derek Stewart, happy? your right everyone is tough behind their keyboard, including yourself! why do you think more people than are directly involved are upset about this? we don't need anymore bad vendors! personally i would like to see all resolved in what i feel is the only way it should have been, but fat chance at that so i will not involve myself to any further of an extent. good luck DI and skip and everyone else

[STALLION]

#1) Brian, I was not speaking about you. Scott is your partner-friend-driver of your race car so your are helping Scott with his fight. No use talking to you, you are a lost cause. #2) Skip Fix, is this your real name? Not speaking about you, I have not seen your post on this thread before now. Customer Service failed for who, you. If not stop speaking for others. #3 Derek, I am not a tough guy at all. Come to my trailer at Norwalk and I will invite you in for a pop and a sandwich and you other GUYS also. If you are not involved in the suit, or do not or have not had any dealings with the Kauffman's leave the fight alone. Thanks Maurice.

[Scott Roberts]

Originally Posted by STALLION

#1) Brian, I was not speaking about you. Scott is your partner-friend-driver of your race car so your are helping Scott with his fight. No use talking to you, you are a lost cause. #2) Skip Fix, is this your real name? Not speaking about you, I have not seen your post on this thread before now. Customer Service failed for who, you. If not stop speaking for others. #3 Derek, I am not a tough guy at all. Come to my trailer at Norwalk and I will invite you in for a pop and a sandwich and you other GUYS also. If you are not involved in the suit, or do not or have not had any dealings with the Kauffman's leave the fight alone. Thanks Maurice.

Maurice, I have never seen Brians car. I have only met brian once face to face. Not sure where you got that info but you are not correct. I have my own car to worry about driving.

[Brian Baker]

Originally Posted by STALLION

#1) Brian, I was not speaking about you. Scott is your partner-friend-driver of your race car so your are helping Scott with his fight. No use talking to you, you are a lost cause. #2) Skip Fix, is this your real name? Not speaking about you, I have not seen your post on this thread before now. Customer Service failed for who, you. If not stop speaking for others. #3 Derek, I am not a tough guy at all. Come to my trailer at Norwalk and I will invite you in for a pop and a sandwich and you other GUYS also. If you are not involved in the suit, or do not or have not had any dealings with the Kauffman's leave the fight alone. Thanks Maurice.

I wasn't implying you were speaking of me, hence the "wink" at the end of my sentence. I was just making a tongue-in-cheek statement.

Scott Roberts is neither my partner or my driver in relation to my nostalgia funny car project. I do consider him a friend however.

As for people not involved in the suit, it's still public information, and as such is "free game" to talk about. As for not being able to talk about the suit, or anyone/anything in particular simply because you have not had any direct dealings is ridiculous. This board was created to share information, good or bad.

As for Norwalk, I think you just bit off more than you can chew with loosely inviting me to your pit for a sandwich. Mongo like sandwich.

[BILL BOWMAN1]

Let's face it- You have JBP, Spott's, Nunzi, Pontiac Dude, and other's I can't think of right now, all I'm sure have had disputs along the way, but what name provokes more anger than any other? You know the letters...

[Skip Fix]

Maurice since 1954 it has been "Skipper" to friends, family, business associates,clients etc, Shortened to Skip about 20 years ago so YES it's my real name as much as Maurice is yours. James E Fix,Jr. D.V.M. if you want legal-something generally just the telemarketers use.

Are you involved in this suit that you can respond? Or can only the cheerleaders respond?? I think you are stepping into the deep end here.

As I stated I started using KRE for stuff before there was an official KRE.

You can see the previous thread about my block issues that were discussed here before I legally can not anymore. It had to go to suit to get resolved at least somewhat.

Other issues not related to legal agreement you can decide if they are just customer service(as I politely put it) or a trend in quality control issues:

First set of E heads to be ported wanted good flow. Came back with tubes in pushrods and head bolts we hadn't talked about. After 20 runs and a intake swap there was Loctite or whatever used for the pushrod tubes-chunks flaking off into the ports I had to cleanup so the motor didn't ingest more of it.Some folks of many makes have issues with head bolt tubes weakening the head.I wanted good flow, would have opted for no tubes but I did not communicate that specifically so some of that is on me. Pistons for that motor ordered from them assuming they would be the light weight that everyone else was using for flat tops 580 gms, only 20 lighter than TRW slug- "sorry wrong blank was used".

Next set of CNC ported E heads they assembled to be ready to run for me. Unpacking CNC shavings poured out of ALL the coolant passages-"sorry must have not taped them off". No offer ship them back we'll clean them up and eat the shipping.Had to completely disassemble them blow/vacuum them out ,knock off the additional small flecks still in the ports from the CNC machine. Not just a 5 minute job. How could they not have been doing that when they were turning them over assembling them??

So every problem I had with every part I was "blown off" as not their problem. A local guy here that got some heads from Butler with shavings for porting they had him send it back for them to go through clean up and ship back. A different attitude.

Stuff happens everywhere it's how you resolve it that matters. In Texas if you advertise one thing and give another it is actually "deceptive trade practices" and triple damages in the courtroom.

As the old saying goes "fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me" I was a slow learner having faith in folks