Spoke to B.Parum this morning
I wrote this once, hit submit and got kicked off for some reason. Anyway, here's the scoop. I spoke to Bill at s/a, he said they have had 7 out of ??? heads that have cracked due to the cnc porting allowing water to get in places its not suppose to be. for the record, bill said the cnc problem has been resolved with no further issues. Bill asked if i was willing to do a little diagnosing and checking, letting him know what i find out. If it is a cracked head, he will send his engine builder to Indiana to make the repairs. If its something worse like a cracked cylinder he will send his guy to pick up the car, make the repairs and return it within 2 weeks. He could have said "send the engine to GA and i'll fix and return it to you" I guess Bill knowing what a pain in the rear pulling the engine is, along with his wanting to maintain a good reputation, he is fulfilling his obligation and then some. I hate to see the car gone for any amount of time, but i admit i was not looking forward to pulling the engine myself and i'm sure this is not the first engine they have pulled out of a cobra. True, these engines cost a lot of money and should be warranted, especially with it only having a couple of hours on it, most of which was on s/a's test stand, but i feel bills offer was very fair and a very good gesture on his part. Problems are going to happen and things are gonna break, thats just the mechanical nature of any material object. I don't expect s/a to do anything more than they are doing. He is taking care of the situation and his last comment on the phone to me this morning was "We're gonna do what ever it takes to make Eddie happy" I hate that any of this ever happened, but I am well satisfied with what he's doing about it. I'll let you know what problems are discoverd.
thanks,
Eddie