A little history for all you new folks. Back in Late 2006/early 2007, 600 Racing (now USLC) found out they had an issue with cheated up sealed motors. This was prior to the program being in house. The builder of the cheated up engine? GE Chapman... 600 Racing fired GE, as they should have. Then, someone decided that they should bring the program in house. In order to do that, they needed a proven engine builder. Who would that be? None of the big name builders would take the job. Curt, Larry, Ken, etc... all were making good money building sealed motors, as well as a ton of 1200 motors. Why would they want to give that up to go work for 600? So 600 had this great idea, but no one to run it. Hey, wait a minute. GE is available, remember, he was fired for cheating. So.... GE became the head engine builder.
Wow, great idea.... Let's put the biggest cheater in legends, in charge of the sealed engine program. Do you really wonder why things are what they are now?
And as far a s quality, there are many more than 1 engine in florida that are blowing absurd amounts of oil. Do the engine guys at USLC even know that you need to set the ring gap, and that it isn't just throw a new set of rings in and call it good?
I would LOVE to see the USLC engine program succeed, but not a the cost of the competitors. fix the PROBLEM! and the problem is QUALITY. If the engines coming from USLC lasted as long as engines from Larry, Curt, Ken, Doug, and Hank, no one would risk getting caught illegal. They would happily pay for a rebuild from USLC and be done. But how many times can you blame the competitor for "too much oil" or "too little oil" or any number of excuses that USLC gives.