I did try to calm the waters with Willem a while back. As a result, he went all "black ops", his Youtube account vanished, etc. In fact, it ended up I had no way to contact him...!
His view is, this forum is "out to get him". And I have to say, threads like this (and I'm as guilty as you guys) certainly don't help get away from that perception. IMHO - and Willem, I hope you read this the correct way - you don't do yourself any favours by acting out the way you do either...
Of course, there's a dead simple way to solve all of this, and I believe Bob has already mooted it already: Let's get a WC Andree engine, with all of the good stuff done to it (I'm sure we could have a forum whip-round to raise the funds), and then lets work WITH Willem to do a thorough analysis. Or, because he'd probably not trust us as far as he could throw an engine, let's mutually agree a totally independent company to do a thorough analysis.
For me, I see things like the 100,000 hour claim (i.e. 11 years of 24/7 running) and think "no way José" - it's an impossible claim. The ONLY way to prove it in a reasonable timescale would be with accelerated aging, and I'm pretty sure that's beyond any of us as individuals or as a group? But there must be companies out there that can do the extrapolations, because modern commercial engines all have defined lifespans...
Willem - if you are reading this, and if you want to help yourself AND us, just join up & get in touch.
Or, alternatively, we keep on as we are - sparring with each other. I doubt it's doing either of us any real harm...
