FWIW and this helps no one. But word on the street is he HAD to switch casting vendors because the state of California Environmental folks basically shut them down. Well made it so it would not be cost affective to comply with their regulations anyway. This happened awhile back I hear. Not making any excuses for sure, just sharing info.

Also hear that the Koleno deal was stuck in the water due to loosing the equipment to machine the rough castings was "lost" to a big name vendor who decided to keep it. Same issue with Bill Mitchel, casting and machining issues. I do see Indy acted accordingly and has raised its prices to help