I have spoken with Dave W at Emerald and he does not want to become involved in an internet brawl, which is quite understandable.
He has given me this message to post for interested parties.
Dear K Series type bods.
I don’t follow internet site gossip, chat rooms or threads but I keep getting people asking me if I said this or that about a certain engine builder’s results here on the Emerald rolling road. Rolling road results are confidential and the property of the man who pays the bill so if I am asked to say nothing I say nothing. If the engine builder wants to prove their result it is up to him/her to publish the results - which I will be happy to confirm.
Dave Andrews has run more K Series engines here than anyone else and has always been very open about the results. It’s no secret that DVA has had more excellent results here than any other engine builder I have seen. That’s not to say that there have not been other engines that come close to Dave’s but to date I have not seen anything better. That is not my opinion… that is a fact.
There is no magic in building a good engine and there are no secrets; the facts about what works on a K Series have been available for some years now - thanks in no short measure to Dave Andrews being so free with the information.
If anyone states that DVA builds a bad engine then that may be their honest opinion but the facts speak otherwise. If anyone thinks they can build a better engine then all they have to do is build a better engine; not keep saying that they can build a better engine. Is that too simplistic?
I have asked DVA to post this for me, as an old codger I find the internet too confusing.
Dave Walker