Hey Gang:
Charles admitted himself that the MPII blower is not going to work for Ralph's application. Yet he has not offered to take back the blower and refund Ralph's money, and I'm pretty sure he has even charged Ralph to have the blower rebuilt in the past (how about that for a warranty?).
The blower actually has a plastic part in it. Now, this is a blower that is suppose to hold up to heavy duty use, yet has a plastic part inside, I think to hold a shaft in place if I remember correctly. Now think about that. In a Road Racing application, you've got this blower turning at some ungodly RPM, for 30+ minutes at a time. Not that Ralph has ever gotten to use it that way, the most he's gotten out of it was maybe 5 laps at a time. But think about that. 5 laps at 2 minutes a lap is equivalent to 54 11 second drag runs. How many of you guys have made 54 back to back pulls down the drag strip without letting everything cool down. How many of you even make 54 pulls in a single year??? We're basically talking about 10 minutes of full boost here in only 5 laps. And there's a plastic part inside there helping hold this thing together when there is already some pretty tight tolerances. If something doesn't hold up (plastic???) tolerances are going to be compromised....
Think about it all this way, and put yourself in Ralph's shoes. You've spent $9K, or $11K, or whatever the Stage II R motor costs, then you've spent money with Charles at Magnum powers, you've lost event registration fees because people said that the car would be done, and it wasn't so you lost your money. You've spent tons of money in Fuel going from NC to Virginia towing the car, and you've had to pay Coy a 2nd time to disassemble/reassemble the engine. And you STILL have a car that has more miles on it being pushed around in different shops, on/off trailers, etc, than it has actually been driven. Who would you be pissed at? I'd be pissed at anybody involved that has taken my money and not delivered an item to me that I can use.
Regarding Charles, his customer service seems to rate right up there with a dentist who decides to pull your wisdom teeth without numbing you first.
Regarding Coy's side of this, the engine ain't worth alot without the blower. Its all a system, it all has to work together. Whether you want to call it a kit, a package, a system, it doesn't matter, one is useless without the other. In my Porsche 3.3L engine, with only 7.0:1 compression, I make about 150-200hp without the turbo bolted up. With the turbo, I get real power that catapults my car up to 169mph. But, it all goes together. It doesn't matter in the least how well I assembled that engine, or how good the parts are inside of it, etc, without that turbo. I'd have Hondas outrunning me on the track
... This engine will generate more HP without the blower than mine would, but its still the same logic, the engine isn't worth the scrap price of metal without it working together.
I'll ask Ralph some of the other questions you guys posted. My feedback here is totally independent of Ralph, and are strictly my opinions, as an observer of this fiasco.
Brian