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Old 11-11-2011, 12:48 PM
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I price engine to all sorts of car builders and what I have found is that most of them are looking for some cheap deal. I have done it with a lot of the Superformance and Backdraft dealers. They want cheap engines so that they can offer a complete turn key car cheap. The main reason they deal with Roush is because he gives them about a 1000.00 per engine give or take a little. I have also had several of them tell me that they did not get their money.
Cashburn and other can say what they want but they are in to make money like everyone else. If they did not get a nice commission of the Roush engine thay would not mess with them most of the time. There are a lot of engine builders that offer warranties and any warranty is as good as the paper it is written on. The warranty deal is bunch of bull **** most of the time anyway when you read the fine print. The ones that the insurance companies sell are a joke and do not cover much but is what most use when they advertise a warranty.
I have a lot of these car dealers, builders want me to build an inferior product so that they could make more of the engine. I will not do it and have my name associatted with it so it is hard to deal with a lot of them. I know some of the prices they are paying for some of this stuff and it is not much engine at that price. We fall some where in the middle on these deals as far as price and offer some lower to higher price engines.
I even sold the people running the Roush deal a lot of the parts when they were starting their engine programs from scratch. They use the same parts as most other people and do not even do their heads in house on these engines, it is a crate engine like everyone else does with some fancy parts on the outside.
The engine business is one of the toughest busineses to ever be in. You complete with people working out of their garage that have no investment in anything and use other peoples machinesne to people that will flat out lie about what they are doing for you. Plus everyone knows everything about engine building just ask them. Really gotten just crazy.

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