Nick called me today to inform me that Lasseter was at it again. When asked what did he write this time, Nick did not know. My comments were it would have something to do with Toms iron block and pushing the sales. Tonight I find his writing on line. I sense he's trying to convince others that TA Performance's aluminum block should be avoided. Well I have stayed away from any acknowledgment of richard lasseter at all. But I have to say this man must be smoking rope. Who ever said that Tony & Dave must have missed that memo was great after 4 years running there TA blocks. Also on the same day that Kenny D. calls about a on center block, billet 6.25" crank, billet rods, cnc ported SE heads, roller cam ect., at end he tells me of the past weekend. Not sure what Arab country, but I know they race up hill for ET. Kenny has built large cubic inch engines for this competition in the past but talked one of his customers into running a V6 Buick. First time out the engine won the event. He ended up building two more for people who were there and like what they had seen. Well, the calls came to him once again after the last weekend race. All three Kenny D. built TA Performance Aluminum block engines were there. Never guess what spots they finished in against all the mountain motors. 1st, 2nd, and 3rd. and tells me it looks like he may be building another to go over seas. Listening to Ken it doesn't sound like these folks are real big on maintenance either. So after Kenny and Nick calling today really makes me think that richard knows something that all of us do not. And this horse power loss thing from iron to aluminum. If running a carb maybe, turbo, change the tune up. Build an aluminum engine for a carb you need to take in consideration in the deck height growth, could be up .014" you will loose compression, turbo add boost. Ring seal. The sleeves we install in our block are the same material that the top fuel folks use, very strong and stable. Thinking of top fuel reminds me of an article I read in National Dragster a few years back. Back in the early 70's Donavon came out with the first aluminum top fuel block. Most sounded like richard lasseter reading the article, power loss, cylinder trouble, never hold up. Well they said the car that was running Donavon's block won that event. Back then they were making around 3000hp/500ci. Today V6 Buick's 250+ci making 1500+hp, same hp to ci. Well one year later if you were running top fuel competitively with an iron block you were lucky to get a second pass out of it. They never looked back, today it is not even legal to run an iron block in top fuel. I ask, should we not learn from the success others or should we just listen to richard. What is he trying to do here?