Roush Engine Failure – Pictures

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Originally Posted by Excaliber

Fact remains, this is a DEFECT in workmanship, not a bad part, not a "stuff happens" moment, not a "bitter pill". This aint right, straight up, Roush should man up and take responsibilty, out of warranty or not. 2,000 miles? Violate warranty if you re-torque anything, and if you don't, you won't find out there is a problem?

Roush is done in my book. The thought, "a fool and his money..." comes to mind in that regard.

I don't believe you can quantify that statement. Did the builder simply not use torque specs? Did he not follow procedure? Maybe, maybe not. Very hard to tell. That's why a warranty exists. True, an indy builder will give you better service, I'll grant you that. But I've witnessed questionable service from small guys, too.
There's a local Cobra that had a HTOB give in 400 miles. Who's fault? Car exchanged hands a couple times and work was not covered by the installer.
Another Cobra with a name build had an engine that was un-tunable. Builder had specs all wrong. The local rework was covered but there's a term that came with it, "blood from a turnip". (BTW, the names have been omitted to protect the...innocent?).
Let's just say if Roush was involved in these incidents it would have been a witch hunt. I've seen builders literally coddled like invalids on these threads. Kudos to Keith and Tom and others who will cover out of warranty engines without hesitation but Roush isn't a mom and pop shop, for better and/or worse.