RustyRatRod's Guide To Hot Rod Bliss
Yea well, you know how it is. You try and tell people about your experience and your friends trials and errors etc....
He'll be happy for a (short) time.
I explained to him about my old truck. Was a 4×4 Ranger, came with a 2.8 v6. Swapped in a 302 with a c4. Truck had 4.10's in it. When I first built it it had 29" tall tires on it. With a bit of trimming/hammering was able to get 31's under it. Had a quiet exhaust on it. But thanks to a lot of mudding had no carpet/insulation in it. My wife at the time loved driving it. Got a new insurance card, went to put it in the glove box and found several bags of disposable ear plugs along with a bottle of Aspirin. Lisa just laughed when I mentioned it.
Doc tried to talk about it again. I told him that as far as I am concerned conversation is done. I don't mind the guy bouncing ideas off of me but when he just believes what he reads in Hot Rod...
He asked me about him buying a fully machined motor and him assembling it, to save a few bucks. Builder wants $700 or so to assemble, dial the cam in. Asked if he will ever be building another one...no. Tried to explain to him that by the time you gather up all the necessary tools he won't be saving much. Then there is also the possibility of it grenading from him doing something wrong.
Next question was about builder breaking it in and dynoing it. He just couldn't seem to understand it. Builder puts it together, puts it on the dyno...something is not right or it goes boom it is on the builder. Doc builds it and something goes wrong...or it grenades he will be out 11k.
To me some of this stuff is a no brainer....sort of like the argument is am in on a bbq site...
