The Tiger Shark engine has some parts that seem to be machined from Butter or possibly Lard. When I received it (in a box of 20 some engines), the big end was egged out so badly, you could have drilled it square and pressed a new bushing in. The crazy thing is, the engine had only run maybe a tank or two.

So I took another parts engine apart and stole a rod from it (46FX with peeled liner) to put in the TS .52. I ran the TS once and found the bearings to be bad, so I set it aside until I messed around with the G51 and found the parts fit. So the G51 is mostly Italian, a little China, and a dash of Japan.