I'm assuming that the new engine has been test run and otherwise fully functional.
I have to believe Continental ran yours on a test stand as Well.
Jim
I am not convinced continental test runs their remanufactured engines before shipping them.
Last spring I did a double engine swap on one of the companies 404's. That's 2, GTSIO-520-M's. I won't go into the price of those things. However one engine kicked and bucked on start up.. Went through ignition timing trouble shooting... After much frustration, Discovered that the distributor gear in one mag had the red paint on the wrong mark. There is no way that engine would have run in the test cell with those mags installed.
Previously we have received engines and it was obvious they were test run... The lifters were already spalling from a test cell run.. Luckily we were notified of the bad metallurgy before we even had that engine hung.
