RE: Well, it finally happened...
No, they understood the situation perfectly. Then proceeded to tell me because I put the saito 82 on there I was S.O.L. Tried to explain I had never even run the engine at full throttle or done anything stressful to the plane, that's when they told me there's nothing they would do and hung up on me.
I was pretty surprised myself, having heard quite a bit about their "fantastic" support. I guess I'm the only one that ever had this happen?