With all due respect, I wish that vendors who offer parts for sale on the list would refrain from saying negative things about competitors.  It really does make it hard to sort the wheat from the chaff.  Just my thoughts on the matter, as a list member who has bought from both the vendors concerned here, as well as from others.

mcneely

---- Ken Wilford <kenwilfy@COMCAST.NET> wrote:
> Tom,
>
> Just FYI, we sell these as well for much less.  If you want I can give
> you a quote on an engine rebuilt kit.  The 96mm piston set I can do for
> $299 for Vanagon list members.  Just let me know.
>
> PS, I will gladly give anyone who buys engine rebuild parts from me
> customer support.  I love how they sell a kit and then calmly state that
> they will give no technical support with it whatsoever.  The customer
> support is what you really need when you are doing a job like this.
>
> --
> Thanks,
> Ken Wilford
> John 3:16
> www.vanagain.com
> Phone: 856-327-4936
> Fax: 856-327-2242
>
>
>
> On 3/31/2011 1:20 PM, Tom Lambas wrote:
> > I'm ordering parts for my 2.1L rebuild and I am considering a piston kit so
> > I contacted GWAP
> > to ask if the QSC kit still had the deck height issue.  It seems they can't
> > answer any technical
> > questions and wouldn't give me an answer.  I was told that they've gotten
> > good feedback about them though.
> > I contacted QSC and they said that the issue with the pistons was corrected.
> > Just an FYI.
> >
> > Anybody try their cylinder heads? Looks like just a finished casting.  QSC
> > has an interesting website.
> > http://www.qscusa.com/Piston1.html
> >

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David McNeely