Dam, im almost sorry i brought up the Chinese block a few weeks ago on another thread (NOT!!!) i was messing with Carl on that thread (just a little) but i have total respect for his ability to check these blocks out. I too have a connection with Dart and i won't say what i paid for my Dart lil M blk. But i will say that the only thing i had to do was bore it and hone the lifter bores, the mains were fine, no line honing. I read the thread on YB and someone mentioned checking the Chinese blk. with a CMM, i gotta say i've never seen a CMM that could check out a blk. and i've been a machinest for over 50 yrs. and we have a $250,000.00 CMM. But that's not the issue here, i want bash anyone's product and i can also buy the Chinese version for less than $1,000.00. With that said, i will wait for the results of the metal test and the probe/location diminsions test on the PBM and the ProComp blk.
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