found an intersting post from a Picco supplier in the US
#181 of 185 by Ron Hopkins (alrousa) on Wed Apr 6 23:15:35 2005:
Rich, as you probably know in conjunction with Alberto, Degani,
Wheeler and Korts we did a lot of the development on the P7R engines.
Without going into a lot of detail there were some things that
occured during/after development that made me decide to pass on the
P7R buggy engine and go in a different direction. As it stands we are
now importing/selling select Picco engines all of which we stock parts
for. As indicated the P7R is not one of those. For all customers of a
Werks Picco engine, we currently have and will continue to stock parts
for all engines that we have imported or currently import. For older
designs i.e. from Paris or Trinity try giving OFNA a call for parts.
sounds like he thinks there's definately a problem[:-]
glad mine is one of the early 1 piece crank versions
