Cold starts with the choke closed, NO WAY!

I started my 440 last winter at points where it was so cold the battery couldnt really crank the engine over after sitting for 2 days (she always too a few cranks to fire). Never had broken rings. Sounds stupid to me, they probably figured this guy doesnt know much we will make up some bs and make 700 dollars. I'd bet you just had one bad ring on the cylinder that was down on compression, probably due to their faulty "blueprint" job. I dont think anyone knows what blueprint means anymore anyway, look for cars for sale on ebay and every last one of them has a "blueprinted" engine. Its trendy like "numbers matching."

And dont use the vacuum advance? They must have done something that cant hold up there. So you cant use the choke or the vacuum advance? What do they want this thing to be completely unfriendly to street use, easy starting, and good gas mileage?

Why dont they tell you that you can't run mufflers either? That probably creates too much back pressure for it.