Reply to "MME ENGINE FAILURE UPDATE"

Years and years ago a person could walk into a Shelby/Ford dealership and purchase a factory built race car and drive it home. My how times have changed?

The strange thing about it was that the only thing that was not really a race part was the engine.

Sure it was hotter then the regular Mustang GT BUT it was the same engine as supplied in the production Shelby GT350 street car. Why?

To avoid the inevitable hard feelings between the two parties, the buyer and the seller when the "super duper race engine" broke.

This certainly to me is a case in point. You have a race engine with all of the warts that go along with it. The reality is that even if you paid a "gazzillion dollars" for it and Jack Roush built it for you, at some point it is going to break. As the owner of it I would hope later rather then sooner, but it is inevitable.

To me the mistake here was made by both parties in that the buyer had no idea what the nature of this engine was going to be and the seller presumed that the buyer understood the nature of the engine he was getting.

The logic that I see is that if you don't like the risk inherent to the valve train in this type of engine, change it.

Bottom line is, ALL THAT HAPPENED WAS THAT THE ROCKER ARMS BROKE. Blame it on the Bush Administration. Everything else is.