Originally Posted by swrobel

Not real happy with my first experience with the reedy sonic or with the service department at associated. Apparently after 20+ years of racing I don't know how to tighten screws... Nor do the people building these motors. I bought a 10.5 to run in my short course truck and after one qualifier the motor came off at 180 which I thought was weird considering the 10.5 nemesis that I was running with the same gearing temped at 145. After further inspection I noticed that the timing was not set at the 0 mark. I grabbed the endbell and could physically move it. No biggy, I thought. Just set the timing back to 0 and tighten the screws that weren't tightened at the factory. Wrong!!! The next run the same thing happened again! Only this time the motor went into meltdown mode. So I sent it back. The tech guy tried to tell me that he tightened the screws down and it didn't move and they don't cover overheating..... I wonder if he was able to put it into a car and drive it to see if it would move after it was already melted?! I'm sure he knows how to do that too because I'm the dumb a$$ that hasn't learned lefty loosy righty tighty yet. smh