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The shop is very reputable, they work mostly on race cars and race and track support. They did have my twinplug distributor clocked 180 out on the first start, and told me the oil was leaking from my hardline to case fitting and sump plate. After I removed my heat exchangers i could see the oil dripping out of the return tube at the head.
The good is the engine sounds great, they started it and ran it till hot for the first session and the next day started it and heated it up again to time it. I towed the car home on the dolly and was going to take it out for it's first break-in spin but saw the puddle of oil under the car and decided i better get to the bottom of this first.
What I dont understand is why they would send the car out of their shop leaking oil like that, you would think they would of made sure the engine didn't leak, after all they built it and charged me 400 bucks to start and time it and diagnose the misaligned distributor they put in wrong and check and recheck compression leak downs by pulling the plugs and adding oil to the cylinders when #1 and #3 were at 70% and 40%. They did improve a little but the engine sat for a year after the build and it had'nt been started yet so after break in I will have them recheck it.

Next time I will be sending it to Supertec!
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