X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Sender: To: lml@lancaironline.net Date: Sun, 10 May 2009 17:55:08 -0400 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from n11b.bullet.mail.mud.yahoo.com ([209.191.125.178] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.2.14) with SMTP id 3637942 for lml@lancaironline.net; Sun, 10 May 2009 14:45:04 -0400 Received-SPF: none receiver=logan.com; client-ip=209.191.125.178; envelope-from=mcmess1919@yahoo.com Received: from [68.142.200.225] by n11.bullet.mail.mud.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 10 May 2009 18:44:30 -0000 Received: from [68.142.201.241] by t6.bullet.mud.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 10 May 2009 18:44:30 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by omp402.mail.mud.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 10 May 2009 18:44:30 -0000 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 220566.13703.bm@omp402.mail.mud.yahoo.com Received: (qmail 29468 invoked from network); 10 May 2009 18:44:30 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Received:X-YMail-OSG:X-Yahoo-Newman-Property:From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:Message-ID:MIME-Version:Content-Type:X-Mailer:Thread-Index:Content-Language; b=gI0RcMBY+PHpK+VJdki6UbzurAqucWMTQkdojjIL80R1KrsL+UaeNZNWHUn99re4xng8yWTFndGXaPptDVYBBYL+gFAsohrnQuAr8zezGUY2kEMitfq3heJLvXa506/OCS/eBSG5IqcWblI3XlfNf+Mr1IXdx1/zcVVZiQ9dR5c= ; Received: from unknown (HELO Laptop) (mcmess1919@72.177.77.73 with login) by smtp127.plus.mail.mud.yahoo.com with SMTP; 10 May 2009 18:44:13 -0000 X-YMail-OSG: fedA5gEVM1nlWFGAU1uowXU7D0EIfdLL7P0kB.YidvC5sqhb_QhBxp8E89bwMbVzfDsUtmNFzBkJIOmLaKvOBy4Bn.FremmtD5N5IpvekXsXbDpQThBBV312x.jdZJPlApQ14NOWACDHlMhoQ97kNvuas7Wil.ZTJp_0bAiYoybI8ls1OzkWsF4JKcM.REHw4x0MV1MakZb22tFr3s0kGyDrQbB7EHVeoAls.qCn3x0TZpPLRcFvchbakoA1WSpNHz79H97vDsVq5fWcn43ezq4nstp43L9YyS9oSyLYi0O7L.VOIA-- X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 From: "Steve Colwell" X-Original-To: "'Lancair Mailing List'" , "'Frederick Moreno'" X-Original-Cc: "'Ron Monson'" Subject: Performance Engines X-Original-Date: Sun, 10 May 2009 13:43:53 -0500 X-Original-Message-ID: <000001c9d19f$505cbcf0$f11636d0$@com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0001_01C9D175.6786B4F0" X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 12.0 Thread-Index: AcnRnt8tT58Wkz2ETQOu1mtgFUO2Wg== Content-Language: en-us This is a multipart message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0001_01C9D175.6786B4F0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Fred and others who are considering legal action against Performance Engines. I would like to be included in discussions to hire an attorney. My request for reimbursement was ignored along with my many, many phone calls and e-mails to Ron Monson when I was trying to solve my problem. It cost me $$ and a lot of time to diagnose and repair my nearly new engine. At about 40 hours it was blowing enough oil out the breather and on the belly in a single trip around the pattern that it was dripping off a 2' wide, 8' long, thick coat running aft. It took over a month to determine the engine had ring flutter due to wear of every compression ring and all the top piston ring lands. In the diagnosis process many flights were made because it would only blow oil in flight. It was no fun wondering if the engine would blow up or not. Steve Colwell ------=_NextPart_000_0001_01C9D175.6786B4F0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Fred and others who are considering legal action = against Performance Engines. I would like to be included in discussions to = hire an attorney. My request for reimbursement was ignored along with = my many, many phone calls and e-mails to Ron Monson when I was trying to solve my problem. It cost me $$ and a lot of time to diagnose and repair my = nearly new engine. At about 40 hours it was blowing enough oil out the = breather and on the belly in a single trip around the pattern that it was = dripping off a 2' wide, 8' long, thick coat running aft. It took over a month to determine the engine had ring flutter due to wear of every compression = ring and all the top piston ring lands. In the diagnosis process many = flights were made because it would only blow oil in flight. It was no fun = wondering if the engine would blow up or not.

Steve Colwell

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