Posted for "George Braly" <gwbraly@gami.com>:

 Scott,

 Re your “Maybe Honda will do better…”  remark.

 Various folks close to the matter have reported that the first two
crankshafts built by the vaunted Japanese auto manufacturer for the TCM
“Lycoming killer”  liquid cooled engine - - failed.

 As the reports go,  they failed promptly.