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apex blower 136 for asphalt racing
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First of all, this last spring, I sent my stock rx1 block to Hurricane to get his sleeved and close decked 600hp block. About 1 week later ,I picked up my block right at his shop and got my engine reassembled and back to life.
Everything went okay until I found the coolant level kept dropping and quickly found that coolant was going strait into the oil pan and oil was all milky. So what a mess.....
I brought the complete engine to Hurricane for a complete dissasembly and inspection and he found that all 4 sleeves were leaking coolant strait into crankcase.
By then I was like... wtf.... anyway, Hurricane re-sleeved the block using another process and my engine was ready the next week. I re-installed it into the sled and fired her up... coolant was still going into crankcase and now I was pretty dissapointed about all this thing.
Dave offered me a full refund that time but also told me that he would try something new and would give me a brand new block instead of re-using my old block. I would sincerely not have accepted that deal if it were not for the fact Dave was really working hard to get my engine to run correctly and I decided to continue with him. He even came to my home garage to help troubleshoot and find what was wrong with that engine. We pinpointed a problem area in the head gasket as well as a solution for the sleeves and found a working solution after hours of head scratching together. That is the way I like it!!!!!!!!
At this moment my engine is up and running and all that remains is to re-assemble the sled back together and get her on dyno.
Hopefully this thing will just rip!

Everything went okay until I found the coolant level kept dropping and quickly found that coolant was going strait into the oil pan and oil was all milky. So what a mess.....
I brought the complete engine to Hurricane for a complete dissasembly and inspection and he found that all 4 sleeves were leaking coolant strait into crankcase.
By then I was like... wtf.... anyway, Hurricane re-sleeved the block using another process and my engine was ready the next week. I re-installed it into the sled and fired her up... coolant was still going into crankcase and now I was pretty dissapointed about all this thing.
Dave offered me a full refund that time but also told me that he would try something new and would give me a brand new block instead of re-using my old block. I would sincerely not have accepted that deal if it were not for the fact Dave was really working hard to get my engine to run correctly and I decided to continue with him. He even came to my home garage to help troubleshoot and find what was wrong with that engine. We pinpointed a problem area in the head gasket as well as a solution for the sleeves and found a working solution after hours of head scratching together. That is the way I like it!!!!!!!!
At this moment my engine is up and running and all that remains is to re-assemble the sled back together and get her on dyno.
Hopefully this thing will just rip!

zackn291
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Thats customer service at its best. Good luck.
insane
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Hurricane (Dave) is a solid dude. He always makes time to answer any questions even if he is not making a sale. That means alot.
HURRICANE
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I gota say that Molot30th took 10 years off my life.He likes to have things right and I have alot of respect for that.We worked together to get to the bottom of our problem and then we solved it and in the end Molot30th has a good engine and I have a new friend.It was mind bending but a good experience.
I gota say that Molot30th took 10 years off my life.He likes to have things right and I have alot of respect for that.We worked together to get to the bottom of our problem and then we solved it and in the end Molot30th has a good engine and I have a new friend.It was mind bending but a good experience.


mulot30th
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HURRICANE said:Guy's
I gota say that Molot30th took 10 years off my life.He likes to have things right and I have alot of respect for that.We worked together to get to the bottom of our problem and then we solved it and in the end Molot30th has a good engine and I have a new friend.It was mind bending but a good experience.


Blue shadow
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Same here ,He help me alot on getting my new engine up and running again .The meth kits works and no more dito .I have a strong running engine that can handle a lot of HP like I always wanted .He even explain how to put my cam timing on the right way.Thanks again DAVE
Dave is a great guy. Always willing to help. Mulot, your going to have a runner!
gunnerthesnowman
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zross1 said:Dave is a great guy. Always willing to help. Mulot, your going to have a runner!
Wish i could say the same thing .
Mountaintech
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mulot30th said:First of all, this last spring, I sent my stock rx1 block to Hurricane to get his sleeved and close decked 600hp block. About 1 week later ,I picked up my block right at his shop and got my engine reassembled and back to life.
Everything went okay until I found the coolant level kept dropping and quickly found that coolant was going strait into the oil pan and oil was all milky. So what a mess.....
I brought the complete engine to Hurricane for a complete dissasembly and inspection and he found that all 4 sleeves were leaking coolant strait into crankcase.
By then I was like... wtf.... anyway, Hurricane re-sleeved the block using another process and my engine was ready the next week. I re-installed it into the sled and fired her up... coolant was still going into crankcase and now I was pretty dissapointed about all this thing.
Dave offered me a full refund that time but also told me that he would try something new and would give me a brand new block instead of re-using my old block. I would sincerely not have accepted that deal if it were not for the fact Dave was really working hard to get my engine to run correctly and I decided to continue with him. He even came to my home garage to help troubleshoot and find what was wrong with that engine. We pinpointed a problem area in the head gasket as well as a solution for the sleeves and found a working solution after hours of head scratching together. That is the way I like it!!!!!!!!
At this moment my engine is up and running and all that remains is to re-assemble the sled back together and get her on dyno.
Hopefully this thing will just rip!
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Good to hear it all ended well but I'm still trying to understand what happened. Did you end up using another block? Was it a block problem or a sleeve issue?
HURRICANE
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We don't really know for sure what exactly happened either.We found both the sleeves and the headgasket leaking air when we put air pressure in the coolant passage of the block.
I don't know why so much trouble with that engine but ,looking back on it,it made us smarter for the future.We now have a prevention process built into the blocks that we currently are doing to insure that we never have the same trouble again
I don't know why so much trouble with that engine but ,looking back on it,it made us smarter for the future.We now have a prevention process built into the blocks that we currently are doing to insure that we never have the same trouble again
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