[ZTWsquared]

I'm so angry right now I'm literally shaking and I need to rant.

Late last year I bought a crate motor from Topspeed Performance in North Carolina - they advertised it on Focaljet.

After about 15 pms back and forth and asking every conceivable question about the motor, it seemed like it would be a good deal - and so I negotiated a tremendous price shipped to my place in Niagara Falls NY.

The engine came with two spark plugs missing and no oil, but otherwise it was obviously never on the road and it basically looked brand new. My mechanic checked it out and basically said "without being able to run it on a bench, it looks like a brand new engine.

So for the past two days we've been installing the supercharger and associated gear and other stuff like a new rad etc ... and then this morning we put the engine and tranny in the silver track rat. This afternoon we filled it with oil, downloaded the tune to the ECU and filled it with coolant.

Well ... just as we were about to drop the car we saw a major flow of coolant coming out of the engine and we figured no problem - we forgot a hose or something - we'll tighten whatever and continue.

Well - it wasn't a hose. The leak was coming from the entire circumference of the head. It was as if there was no gasket there and as if the head wasn't even torqued down. And remember - we hadn't even started the engine yet - this was a leak just sitting there.

I re-read my pms with Topspeed and they assured me there was nothing wrong with this engine - that I could simply install and run it.

Now - I'm not sure what to do. I have a message in to Topspeed asking for a detailed history of this engine; but whatever they come back with I'm in for a couple more days of major headache.

Hopefully it was just a matter of they had the head off for some reason and forgot to torque it down ... but if they ran that engine and damaged the head in some way, I am royally f**ked.