Well I sat out the last bashing and even sent Mike a nice personal e-mail telling him so.Same basic thing just happened to a good friend who I met after his $18000.00 plus purchase of a turn key Max-wedge clone. Another simple case of quality issue on assembley of block where two mishaped core/ soft plugs were installed with less then 1/16th of lip on the edge. One blew out a Martin/ 131 at the big end dumping the water on the track. Luckily he didn't crash. Pulled the other bad one and Larry sent it to them to let them know what happened and nicely expressed his displeasure with it. Only asked for an acknowledgement not restituion. {75 cents?}. Three weeks no response. After Mike recieved the e-mail said he didn't know about it. Then said he talked to Eric and would be in contact with Larry about it and that was August 9th. Still nothing. Also holding back some questions on another persons build that he just got going with several minor issues so far. Seems same basic thing to much to fast.