Uncle Tony's response to Direct Connection
I wonder if he would even bother with it. But it probably would stop for the most part, there are always them certain few who just can't help themselves and they would keep it going.
Yeah, I dont get it either, like their obsessed or something
Right before I retired I spent a year and a half at the truck repair shop, I did all the welding on trucks trailers and low boys and so I was always around a bunch of HD truck mechanics
There was this one guy who way back was into street racing and there was betting on whoever was racing
This guy was running big block Chevy's and he told me that he had a set of done up heads, a racing cam lifters, high rise manifold with some big Holley plus hotter ignition and headers of course
He would scour the local wrecking yards for 427 engines, either out of cars or trucks as back then mid sized trucks often came with a gasoline big block....He'd start the engine and as long as it wasn't knocking, he 'd buy it and put all his parts on that engine
Im listening to him and im like amazed and he told me those engines we're all loose and they would rev like mad.
He'd run them awhile if he didnt throw a rod through the side of the block, eventually yank the engine and find another engine
He told me and this guy wasn't no BS, he won a lot of races
Again Uncle Tony .....Old school hot rodding the way it was done by the everyday car head
Sure we learned the right way but we also learned how to get by with what was had at hand and that's anything but being a "hack"