Best advice my mom ever gave was only leave a job for a better one. Tell your wife to lay low and go job hunting. If she finds a better one, then do the ultimatum. If she doesn't, then she hasn't burned her bridges
He just threatened you. I'd file a police report. Then if something happens, you already have the documentations started. Also, you don't know what his record is like so talking with a cop might give you some clues.
I'm not sure about contacting him to try to smooth things out, maybe, but...
Yeah, Ive seen that before with stuff I've gotten from Summit. Open the box, that's clearly been re-taped, and find something someone tried to use before. When that's happened, I sent it back and either insisted on them sending me an unused item, or went direct to the manufacturer.
I suggest...
I sure understand your frustration. Are you getting these pans, the Moroso and Canton, direct from the mfrs. or from a middleman like Summit?
The Canton pan sounds like someone tried to install it and [email protected]#%ed it up
I used to run pan evacs on my old super gas Firebird and they worked great. On my street driven Camaro however I'm using a PCV and a Moroso air/oil separator. I wanted the benefit of a vacuum in my crankcase but also better smelling exhaust :D
Here's an interesting thread on PCV's...