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<Bob, like you said, there are literally millions of pages of regs to go through. Compliance includes all "applicable" regs which are scattered throughout, from labeling, emissions levels, weighting, banking, FEL's, and many other aspects. There is no "one" document to go by. The research simply has to be done and with all the work and effort involved I won't simply "hand it over". It IS out there. Its not exactly a trade secret but its close. It seems I do a lot of the work and then someone copies it. Several examples exist. A couple of years ago no one wanted to hear about thermostats and now most people are using them.

George: Only Accountants and book keepers run engines without controlling the temperature. Thermostats were invented when? A MM invention?  I think not.

Pressure lube in the GM-90 engines is another example. Regarding the serpentine drives, even today George is copying my line of flywheel type CNC machined heavy serpentine pulleys. I get a good line of engines developed and then others who don't want to do the work try to hijack the brand.

George: And who was selling the heavy 8 inch plus pulleys first? who was the copy cat? There are folks out there that bought heavy pulleys here long before MM decided to join in.. or as he would say (copy).. 

 This has happened twice so far. Anyway, I seldom post my results as a consequence. My goal is to make the line of engines I'm dealing with the best I can make them. I don't cut corners although there are plenty of people selling the engines willing to do so. That is one of the main reasons I abandoned the CS versions and went with the GM-90 line. The factory was willing to work with me to develop the US market. Even today, the shipment of engines is delayed a couple of weeks because the factory made me a new pattern for extra heavy flywheels.

Mike>

George: Isn't that special, they do it different for Mike, They do it different for Willem too :-)  

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Pulley History

Those who bought the first heavy utterpower pulleys long ago know that there were no other offerings out there at the time.  It is the only reason I  made them, if they were available anywhere else for a reasonable price I'd have bought one, in fact I called Mike and asked if he was making any before I went thru the trouble :-)

Who offered the first thermostat housing ? :-)

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