Dan was truly an amazing guy, I first got to know him back in '03 on the Engine Masters 470 project when I sent him a ported stock oil pump to try...it took hours to convince him but when I said "think of the pump body like cylinder head, if we increase the flow capacity of the inlet and outlets, we can increase it's efficiency even though it's displacement stays the same" You could hear the light bulb click on over 600 miles of phone line.

He did my offset grind and journal prep on my 517 crank and what a job he did, I torqued it down in my line honed block and it spun like it was on roller bearings. Amazing machinist I liked and respected him tremendously and I miss him greatly.