New Build Kirkham KMP709

[damage]

Tengu,

Timing chain broke principally from valve contact with pistons due to cam timing being way off. In some ways this was a blessing in disguise because the heads were cracked from substandard port work and then subsequent poor welding to repair the substandard port work, heads were cracked and not worth repair (in my opinion anyway). During the autopsy I also discovered that the timing chain was some cheap arrr's chinese crap, the timing chain roller thickness varied anywhere up to 5 thou and the rollers themselves had seam lines in them so were out of round and well no words to describe the quality, the pistons were hanging out of the sleeves about 450 thou past the reference point and a bunch of other issues that should have been attended to in the build process.

The lack of interest from Keith Craft doesn't come as a surprise, after 20 something odd emails (I havent bothered to count so may be off) this led me to posting on the forum to finally get some sort of lack lustre response that ultimately led to no help. I pretty much think Keith Craft is more then happy to pack up Friday engines and send them overseas and then thumb his nose when sh*t happens.

Sorry that you've been subjected to the same crap I had to deal with including bogus dyno sheets.

Moral of the story is buy local and save the heart ache I'm sure there are plenty of honest engine builders States wise but not worth the gamble.