I want that data for the engine before I buy it. If you're building engines, you need to test one of each offering at some point so you have the data available. If you've never tested them, you have no idea what you've built. You don't have to test everything you build, but you need to have tested a configuration before you offer it to a customer with glowing language about how awesome it is.
Would you buy a $5,000-$10,000 television without knowing the resolution of the display panel? I wouldn't.
I'm glad yours works great, but I have a line drawn in the sand when it comes to this stuff and, if a company is unable to provide me the specifications of their product, they have no business offering it to the public. When you're selling engines, that's not the only cost or inconvenience for the customer. For all we know you got lucky and they just happened to accidentally build it right.
The whole point of the Rover V8 is how it feels; how it revs, how it keeps pulling faster and faster, and how even though it's a pint-sized, fairly weak V8, it'll keep a heavy-weight Rover in the power band once you get up to speed and push the limits of what makes sense. If you're changing that, you'd better be able to tell me what happened as a result of your tinkering.
I'm sorry man, but they just don't pass go with me. Maybe they were different in the past, but until they can prove they know what they're doing, I'm going to say it's likely that they're buying rebuilds wherever and just reselling them.
The hick down the street can provide me performance data for the busted-ass Chevy engines he builds...
Cheers,
Kennith
Agreed. I am just surprised they are not providing it now. I was able to choose many components of the engine before they built it. Companies change I guess.