see ya folks....to many Moparts attitudes on here for me. Get treated like I know nothin'. Just tried to spread some knowledge. Tired of it....
Had fun while I was here though. Just have better things to do than take sh*& from people that think I am too young to know what I know....
So long guys and gals....
Redfastback [qoute]
Hey, just out of curiosity, why do you come across so arrogant? You seem to have plenty of knowledge of engine building, who do you work for? Lately everything comes across that you know everything and everybody else knows nothing and you tend to slam people for their ideas/opinions. We all appreciate shared knowledge on the board, but not arrogance or humility.
I'd be interested if you posted some of your work and experience so we can all see where your knowledge comes from.[end quote]
This was after the 'people and they're car knowledge' thread where the title became the direct description of the most who posted on that pos thread.lol
A lot of people don't get my sense of humor and pride in mopars, they think it's narrow/close minded and that I'm red in the face behind the key board gettin mad.....nope, I laughing my *** off!
I grew up in a town where 'if it wasn't chevy it was crap', that coming from 'crap for brains' people. There seemed to be no mopars where I grew up.
I had the only one as a teen for miles it seemed...and all my bud's were sceptical...till my 74 dart custom w/stock 2 brl 318 blew the doors off a malibu w/350 4brl owned by my friend matt. Later I would get comments from old dudes/my pops friends saying ''why u wanna drive round in that ugly dodge?'' meanwhile it would run great, get me where I wanted, heck I layed a lot of pipe in that car..lol I had d bags in ck-10's talk sht and ramble on about how much hp their 355 had and others in crustanks tell me the 289 was the sht and bla bla bla....
I eventually went to work for an old swedish merchant marine named Leonard, he had raced hemis, super charged volvos,chevys, etc...and when it really came down to though...he was a mopar guy. He tried talking me out of the built slant idea cause it costed the same to do a 360...I was determined and he was cool enough to help guide me through it, even cross drilled the crank and ported the head, taught me how to grind valves, build 904's,c4's, do head changes, why this was better than that...and yes, even volvos are better than most out there with beefy steel cranks, thick cyl walls, beefed rods....Everything compared to chevy ...and the chevy looked more and more like a dog turd.
We rebuilt 2 454's for the same guy 'hauled rock in a dually' , both had spun rod bearings...thats when I learned to stuff the 396 crank/rods into the 454 and make a better engine was the ticket..then I learned head porting, and the chevy had not much to work with, which where I remember a book quote ''chevy heads are the easiest to port'' yeah cause there much you can do, the pocket is hallow, floor is flatish and the port is squatty short, though wide, the potential is nill.
then came the fe fords and that experience...the ports were cliffs that just dropped off...too bad, and then the rod journals were so damn narrow..and that spindly lil oil drive and poor oiling...man.
Then isusu-head crackers, nissan-throw away cars, toyota-decent, mercedes-motors good but everything else fails, bmw..all had issues/a/t trans
, though I like beemers style & interior, the parts were EXPENSIVE and doing head removal/instal was involved and was easiest to just pull it all out and out of the way, especially that hood.
yadda yadda I've worked here-there-that machine shop this repair shop...
and at a point with mopars I was on my own and had to learn on my own..
Hands on repair is where my knowledge comes from.
That and my grandfather Bud, he worked for chrysler and ran the casting line for all the aluminum slant engines, he also worked for ford. We would work on his tractors out in the barn on the family horse ranch.
just cause you like everything don't mean all else do.
do we all like the same football team???
they all play the same sport...
