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This is the kind of shit that makes me not want to touch BE bearings. I'm looking forward to someone coming and eating BE's dinner by educating the market.
For someone who charges $600 for bearings and is in bed with BE. If I were you I would walk out of this with the little, if any dignity left.
BMW sells Clevite bearings, spec is OE and the cost of production is the same more or less. They have more scale so BMW cost will be less. BMW charges ridiculous premiums, but BE sells their bearings for even more.
If you ever open your mouth about ACL margins, please realize it's not your mouth but your rear hole.
As stated earlier, there is literally nothing special about BE bearings except marketing. You don't have a race engine and getting near perfect tolerance for 3x cost is stupid when you have no journal measurements. If you think this level of perfection is required, then kindly do it right and pull out your engine and get journal measurements first. Don't cheap out, pay 4x on the labour too, do it engine out.
BE = 300 bearings + 300 marketing surcharge
Initially I bought into the BE marketing until I learned more about engine building. Only to learn BE compared race engines that have engine life in hours to our engines that have engine life in years. About how NASCAR engine builder was consulted and how BE is used in race engines. Relax, you literally gave Clevite a spec and they manufactured the bearings.
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