Some of the Century guns have been known to run just fine. Then again, many of them also have non-stop problems. It is my understanding that the Imbel components are excellent quality, so a Century gun with them is more likely to function well, though even some of them have problems due to being assembled in a poor manner. The main problem I've heard of with Century guns is that there seems to be little attention to detail when it came to the assembly of the guns. Many of them seem to have headspacing issues. In fact I checked out 2 Century Cetme's and a Century FAL a week ago, and they ALL had pretty significant headspacing issues.
Think of the Century stuff as a more often than not do-it-yourself gun that will need some work to run well. I would NEVER pay $1100+ for a Century built gun. To give you an idea, I just found a typical "kit" FAL For $1000, and I believe it is made entirely with Imbel components. Basically it is my understanding that FAL's like that were full Imbel guns but, because of import regulations they were basically disassembled for importation then reassembled here, so they are excellent quality to begin with being Imbel and all. That's worth $1k. I'd only pay $1k for a fully Imbel built FAL (it seems Enterprise imported and built some of these), DSA, Springfield imported, etc.
