I would venture to say that RPM plays a huge role in this issue.
To be fair, as important and crucial as many of the parts MMR makes may be, i will admit that damn near all of their threads include the phrase "AVOID CATASTROPHIC ENGINE FAILURE." The engine may fail, and it may very well be catastrophic due to said part, but i imagine that is where people get the impression of "scare tactics." Apparently there are a lot of parts in my motor waiting to go ...
We agree, and we are all guilty of it. Some people may purchase it as a precaution, others may not. We are okay with this, but at least now we can say that we have brought the problem to peoples attention. In regards to scare tactics - there are not many ways of telling someone that a part may cause catastrophic failure, unfortunately there is no way to sugar coat it and the bottom line is it CAN and WILL! . Do you need to rush out and tear your engine down?, of course not, but if you have your engine apart, are building a new engine or have aftermarket cams and springs this is a $99 insurance policy that is well worth it.
Bro they are in the business of selling parts and alot of the parts they sell are designed to be severe duty replacement parts for potentially weak OEM parts... How would you market these products? "AVOID A MILDLY UNDESIRABLE UNSCHEDULED ENGINE SERVICE"
Funny that you mention this, a few weeks ago a customer called with a failed lower stock gear, it ruined his entire engine, he asked us why we didnt tell him that he needed it when he purchased other parts. So I guess you can say that now that we are aware of the problem we are liable for telling our customers what the consequences are. It would be like selling a drug and not explaining what it might do to you. As we said before - dont shoot the messenger guys!
Strangely enough, if you let them sit for a month or so they harden again (like stock) - we would assume that the chemical that softens them has possibly evaporated at that point?
http://www.afdc.energy.gov/pdfs/ethanol_fueling_compatibility.pdf
Go read.....
This sort of thing gets even worse when * additives * such as certain oxgenators are added.
That's a good question, metal on metal is never good. Maybe they are going to coat the billet tensioner piece.
lol looks like we were both researching the same thing! :beer:
Yep!
I've seen this exact thing happen in engines that use methanol as a fuel or injected for things like FI. Ethanol isnt much different.
The information isnt new about the affects of ethanol and other alcohols on engine and fuel system parts. There may be some alternatives though.