Well got off the phone with the sales/warranty manager.

I told right off the bat that a cold start "issue" would not cause the rings to break and went on about the assembly of short block was the problem.

his replays was i don't know why they would of told you it was a cold start problem when it appears to be a detonation issues. be it the timing fuel blah blah blah.

i told them i set everything to their specs.

Still went on how it was something on my end.

So i having send me pictures of the broken rings not like that will help and he send this problem does occur and is not out of the norm.

So he mention that they used to send rings back to the manufacture to see why they failed.

So i tolded him to do the same with mine and asked them to fax over the results when they get them in.

So it looks like i am going to have to bite the bullet on this one.