Not to stay off track but in my comment I said nothing about going non-Mopar/Fiat. I love my Viper and if I wanted to go fast I would do it with a Viper and turbos or blower, Failing that a modern Mopar/Fiat V8 and boost.
Back to the Soap Opera.

When is the anniversary date of your deposit??

Paid in full, not deposit and yes a very long time. 2015. There is a couple longer than me.

It's been 9 months since this thread was started...and 7 months since Ray has posted in this thread....

Copchaser, D7Cook,WedgeFED, who did you order the blocks from. Was it Keith Black or was it this new group of owners or investors.

I kept hearing the old orders were being taken care of but looks like that is not true. I talked to one person that just ordered from the new owners and that is why I asked about who you guys bought your blocks from. Will see when the block comes in or even if it does. I know the manufacturing of some of the block parts had slowed everything down to a stop. I hear most of the problems come from the old way KB does business and that must be dealt with and has taken much longer than expected because of the distance of keeping a eye on the KB Business and running your existing Business. I can see if it does not work with some of the people in the process of getting these block built then those people need to be eliminated before this thing falls completely apart. It will take time to get new people involve in the manufacturing of parts for the blocks. I would say this will take time and has taken quite a long time looking at what everyone has said.

My understanding is most if not all the old orders have blocks. When the new owners took over all the blocks were in various stages of completion with sleeves and main caps being the two biggest problems. The new owners ordered all the required sleeves and that part got done but getting main caps machined and installed became an obstacle. Particularly the #5 main cap. This is why all the blocks were put on a truck and sent to Michigan to get this last step done.



In my 33 years of Millwrighting at Allegheny Ludlum steel I watched this happen with my own eyes. You wouldn't believe how big our machine shop was and it was maned 24 hours a day. There wasn't a thing that we needed that those guys couldn't punch out well made and quickly done.
Behind the machine shop we had in house motor winders so if a motor burned out or replaced these guys could make it better than new. Not any more. No in house winders and our machine shop is about 1/8 th the size. Now they are at the mercy of others buying CRAP and waiting forever. Trade skills in the USA would take forever to build back up as Apprentice's learning on the job went out the window too.