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Bob said,
A: Because Continental customers are willing to do the job by
hand.
It's worse than that.
As far as I can tell, you cannot buy for any amount of money, an engine
from TCM in which you can be sure that the valve guides are straight and the
seats match. You cannot buy from TCM and engine in which you can be sure
that the fuel distribution is equal. If you have slick mags and you
run at fl250 you probably want to be looking at them every 100 hours. If
you have the standard baffle arrangement in a IVP, chances are that not only do
you have unequal cooling among your cylinders, you probably have unequal cooling
to the different parts of each cylinder. etc. etc.
If you want a halfway reasonable implementation of
this 1950's technology there is a lot left for you to do when you get your
engine back from the factory.
TCM could do better but they also could decide that
a market with single digit 1000's per year is not worth the bother.
This is not to slam TCM vs. Lycoming by the
way.
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