I'm not looking to turn this into a pissing match, but after having read through this thread I feel I should respond to some of the accusations and stories in here.
First of all, Falicon has never, ever, returned a crank that was not the one sent in by the customer. To say so is just absurd. What would be our motive? To steal your good crank and replace it with a bad one? Why would we want to do that? We don't sell OEM cranks. We make the baddest ALL BILLET busa cranks on the planet. We modify and repair stock cranks as a service to our customers on a budget. We don't want or need to keep your OEM crank, new or otherwise. The "work order number on the crank" idea is a good one, one we came up with twenty years ago.
Second, to the guy who supposedly had journals go bad on a crank that we repaired, I am very sorry you can't assemble an engine properly. Perhaps you should pay someone to do it next time. We ship literally dozens of repaired cranks per week and they all seem to work fine. Why was your crank the exception? That is a question you need to ask yourself. What could we have done that would have made your crank go bad? If you use a little common sense, or perhaps had a better understanding of how your crank was repaired, you would realize that the problem could not possibly have been us. It's just easier to blame us then accept that you messed up somewhere though, huh?
We have had cranks worked on by every crank shop in the nation come through here for repair, including competitors that advertise on this site. We are familiar with our competitions work, and let me tell you we are confident that our position as the number one high performance motorcycle crank shop in the world is very secure.
The competition can make all the sly comments they want, at the end of the day who buys parts from who? Who put's our products (gold cam sprockets, baskets, etc.) in their catalog as if they were their own? What better endorsement of the quality of work done by the guys here could we ask for than having the competitors buy our stuff?
I'm very happy that some of our customers have stuck up for us in here. We look forward to another thirty years of serving the high performance community with our constantly evolving line of products. Our 11mm busa strokers (biggest available anywhere) are kicking butt on dragstrips all over the country, our new 5mm ZX14 stroker crank is currently undergoing testing and you can look forward to a full line of products for that bike in the immediate future as well. The facts are that we are the best in the business and are in no danger of losing that position anytime soon. Anyone with any questions or comments can speak to me directly by calling Falicon and I would be happy to talk to you.
RE-READ MY POST SLICK, I NEVER SAID YOU REPAIRED ANY JOURNALS, ALL YOU SAY IT NEEDED WAS MICROPOLISH AND THE NOSE STRAIGHTNED, WHICH I SAID OKAY TO. THEN KABOOM , SENT IT TO YOU YOU SAID " THERE IS NOTHING AT ALL WRONG WITH THIS CRANK YOU HAD TO ASSEMBLE IT WITH TRASH IN IT" I TOOK YOU AT YOUR WORD AND REPLACED EVERY BEARING , EVERY GASKET , OIL PUMP , MADE ABSOLUTLEY SURE THE OIL SYSTEM AND ALL GALLERIES WERE CLEEEEEEEAN, I EVEN DISASSEMBLED THE HEAD AND CLEANED IT AS WELL , I ALSO REPLACED ALL THE RUBBER OIL HOSE FEED LINES ON THE ENGINE , THEN I DOUBLE CHECCCKED ALL CLEARENCES AND BEARING CODES. ( I ALSO SENT YOU THE RODS AND MADE SURE THEY WAS NOTHING WRONG WITH THOSE, YOUR KNIFE RODS AS A MATTER OF FACT, THAT I STILL RUN TODAY) REASSEMBLE THEN KABOOM, SAME EXACT FAILURE, IN THE SAME AMOUNT OF TIME..... YOU SAY TRASH!!! WELL YOU READ THAT PART IM SURE,
I HAVE NOTHING TO SAY TO YOU , ANOTHER GUY CHECKING MY CRANK (INDEPENDENT SHOP) DOESNT KNOW WHO DID THE CRANK OR TOLD THE STORY BEHIND HIM CHECKING IT UNTIL HE GAVE ME THE RESULTS OF THE CHECK OUT, THEN HE WASNT STILL TOLD WHO . AND HE TELLS ME WHAT HE TOLD ME... THERE IS NOOOOOOOOO WAY YOU CHECKED IT 2 TIMES AND FOUND NOTHING WRONG. THIS MAKES ME FEEL AS A CUSTOMER AS I WAS, I PAID YOU TO BUILD THE CRANK ORIGIANLLY, AND MAINTAIN IT WHILE IN USE, BOUGHT MY RODS FROM YOU, AND ALL MY OIL COOLED PARTS FOR YEARS FROM STROKERS TO RODS, I WASNT A FLY BY NIGHT CUSTOMER, I WAS A REGUALR CUSTOMER. IN THE END I FELL LIKE I GOT SCREWED , IF I WOULD HAVE TOOK YOU AT YOUR WORD AGAIN , I WOULD HAVE ASSEMBLED IT AND IT WOULD HAVE BROKE AGAIN, DO YOU REALIZE HOW MUCH TIME AND MONEY WENT INTO THAT ENGINE BEING INSTALLED AND REMOVED 3 TIMES COST ME. IM SURE YOU HAVE NO CONCEPT, ALL YOU KNOW IS YOU AS A BUSSINESS NEVVVVVVVER SCREWS UP , JUST BLAME IT ON THE ASSEMBLER, BULLSHIT, YOU KNOW WHAT THEY SAY EFF ME 1 TIME SHAME ON YOU , EFF ME 2 TIMES SHAME ON ME, BUT YOU WILL NEVER GET A PENNY OF MY MONEY AGAIN. THE CRANK GUY I USE NOW , BLOWS YOU AWAY IN QUALITY AND HE IS A LITTLE MORE EXPENSIVE, SO MONEY IS NOT THE ISSUE, IF IT WERE I WOULD NOT BE RACING THESE THINGS.
E.B. ASSEMBLER OF DIRTY ENGINES..
