The whole thing is made in China
Yes.............yes.................yes.
I still do some engine design consulting for engine manufactures. One of the companies moved all of there manufacturing operations to China about 4 or 5 years ago. The drawings and necessary information was used to make the prototype engines. The engines were dyno and field-tested. The prototype engines met all of the design criteria and exceed all of the performance and reliability testing. Mass production started and customers immediately started having problems.
We started testing materials, heat treats and machine tolerances. None of the specifications were met in any of these areas. The owner of this company eventually moved to China. He had to make this move to monitor and watch every aspect of the manufacturing process to keep these companies from taking every imaginable short cut.
He still catches them trying to steel the aluminum ingots he supplies of a specific alloy used for casting cylinder and cases and throws scrap aluminum of unknown alloy into the furnace to replace the stolen ingots.
He has caught them not using enough heat when forging connecting rods and crank webs.
He has caught them taking parts out of the heat treat oven to soon.
He has caught them using the wrong size wire when winding ignition coils and stators.
He has caught them not using enough silicon and tungsten carbide in the cylinder plating process.
The list just goes on and on and on what these people will do to try to save money when they are not watched like hawks. He has been successful in getting the manufacturing bugs eliminated since he lives there and oversees all of the manufacturing operations. According to company owner the reliability issues have vanished since he is getting engines that are manufactured to our original design specification. Any time he has to come back to the USA for anything he shuts down all manufacturing until he gets back.
He told me all of the American companies are having the same problems but the owners of most of these American companies are not willing to move there to oversee the day to day operations. They usually hire a Chinese "manufacturing experts" to oversee the day to day manufacturing operations but that is like hiring a fox to watch the chicken house.
Again...........You usually get what you pay for.
