Sreten is a professional YouTuber, he is maximizing for views and engagement. Transparency is not his thing, he would have mentioned this by now. Simply put it's embarrassing. Sreten was the builder. H2 indeed did some suboptimal machining/honing but that is not why engines fail. I highly doubt that any post mortem analysis will find the alusil process was the root cause of the engine failure. If he does attempt to falsely blame H2, they are very well within their right to sue him for reputational damages. Germany is serious about this. Anything other than the truth won't suffice (as it should).
You guys might know that I had a few extensive posts critiquing him WHEN another forum member asked what my opinion was. Of course I was then brigaded and attacked by his rabid fan base. I'm glad you guys actually straighten him out as his response to my critique speaks volumes about what he actually knows. There are some misguided folks on here think he is god because he's a big youtuber.
This is exactly what you are up against as a shop that actually does things right. This is where myths and bad practices propagate. The guy claims he builds OEM plus engines and doesn't measure a G*Damn thing, doesn't think balancing the rotating assy is important, didn't even know what I meant about pre-lubing pressurizing the engine. He's rebuilt 3 or 4 engines that have failed. Shocker! It's interesting you're willing to send him things that you would not send to anyone else though despite the fact that they actually might know what they are doing. It is good exposure for you guys though.
You guys should have him buy your team tickets to go there rather than giving him free services.
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Originally Posted by Chrisyphus
So there are a couple of things going on. First of all, I don't think he wants to throw anyone under the bus directly... It's just not his style. He is genuinely great people. We had a great time with him, an awesome time hanging out and machining his block, etc.
The motor we did for him was an S62 (we will also be doing an S65 at some point I think) and he is kind of in limbo on that video because he has a lot of stuff in the air with a new shop space and wants the video series to happen in a tight timeline. As far as I am aware, once he gets his shop space sorted out, we will ship him his block and components, and he will build the motor there (I should note here that this is an extreme exception that we've made- we do not typically supply machined components for customers to build themselves, as it opens us up to too much liability of a build gone wrong. The minimum we will ship is an assembled short block). Peter, at minimum, will fly to Germany to assist with the building process, but there is talk of all of us going for the video and to drive the Nurburgring. It's been nearly a decade since I was in Nurburg last, so I am really hopeful we all get to go lol.
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