Acroy

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P.O. had Kevin rebuild the motor due to excess carbon (little old lady owned). Motor was very healthy and ran great, 158rwp with loose Pineapple Racing inserts knocking around in the sleeves.

At around 25k on the motor I blew the plastic t-stat neck on a 110 degree track day, almost instant overheat, motor ran but champagne in the coolant.

Started the communication with Kevin, shipped it off for him to re-do.

All communication was email, response time was a reasonable 1-2 days, and very thoughtful and complete replies. He guided me through rebuild and porting options. He had already done a mild “5/6 port job”, I elected to have him complete the 6-port streetport. Pricing is very fair and from my experience he is very honest. He was able to re-use all the apex seals etc, saving several hundred dollars. An unscrupulous rebuilder would very easily have claimed more issues, charged for new parts while reusing old, etc. It is a fair amount of faith to ship a keg to a person you’ve never met, Paypal him many hundreds of dollars, and trust the keg you receive back. He is worthy of such trust.

He took very good pictures of the teardown and reassembly, showing the broken iron, parts condition, port work etc. I also bought an auto counterweight off his Ebay store which he installed. Turn around time was a couple weeks, very reasonable.
Motor arrives very clean and nicely painted with all holes taped over. Kevin provides a comprehensive start-up guide to walk the installer through priming the oil system and starting it up, allowing for the best chance of success of not toasting a new motor due to dumb errors.

Motor did indeed start right up (first try, yahoo!) and since most of the seals were re-used, it’s like it never came apart. Seems to be running like a top.

Highly recommended and a credit to the Rotary community

edit: His site has very helpful write-ups , and check his Ebay store.