Just know what I was informed of a couple of years ago when I was thinking about doing a conversion myself on one of my .45lc reds. On the ruger forum by several folks. They were saying SOME people were having barrel cracks starting to show on their converts. Just relaying what I was informed of. Kinda glad I didn't do it, guy gave me a really good deal on that .45 which led me to getting one on my .45 vaq's!