Guy I worked with said his chevy pick up had a 555 pontiac engine in it,another guy I knew said he had a 327 ROCKET in his buick regal another guy had a hemi in his chevy pickup but the best one is this'
my 1979 malibu stationwagon has a Bonestock 305 v8 and will do the 1/4 in 6 sec flat "the 305 is a small block you know" he tells me heres the thing they all have in common they are all over the road truck drivers why do they all lie and tell such tall tales????? oh and i forgot my cutlass has a 442 bigblock in it

That reminds me there was a guy that showed up on the engine board of this forum some time ago. He was asking how is oil getting into the coolant system and not vice versa. He said it happened one night at a red light when a mustang pulled up beside him revving on it. So when the light changed he hammered it and was "toting the wheels" when suddenly something blew and there afterward he found oil in the coolant. I told him he was full of it, Tote the tires on cold tire and asphalt? don`t think so. He comes back and says the engine came out of a "corvette LS1 police car" in Texas, I won`t name the city. He also said he had twin turbo`s on it and if I remember correctly he had it stuffed into a mazda or nissan truck that was "tubbed out", can`t recall which. Anyways, I still told him he was full of it. I went to the web and did a search on the city he claimed had the corvette police car, and as I thought they didn`t have any, but they did have Camaro`s. Needless to say after a while he let it drop and never really got a answer to his question and I`ve never seen him post here again. I`ve never seen any vehicle tote the wheels on the street, heard a lot of BSer`s claim they have.

one of the coolist songs ever Born to be Wild,lets see ,keep your engines running no i think its keep your motors running i dont know ill have to play again,im no engineer or motorneer,heywhat about a electric train arnt they called engines?

Funny stuff, I get that stuff from some people too, mostly kids, I hate to argue, slam dunk them or hurt their feelings, but don't want them thinking I'm so stupid I buy any of it either, lol.

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I knew this guy in highschool, when I started building my camaro...he told me I should but a 360 magnum in my car, even brought me the info on the crate engine, said it was what he had in his 87 1500 4x4...

his sister also has a late 80's camaro that had a corvette engine in it, and it was so fast that her parents made her get rid of it, and it was for sale from the guy who bought it, because it was too fast...i went and looked at the car he claimed it to be, stock 305 tbi...

she also had a ford focus hatchback that so fast it would, etc, etc, etc,

he also lied about every other thing i can remember him saying

but his sister was hot...and his girlfriend was too...never could get up with his sister, but i did take his girlfriend after she finally realized how much he really lied

now i haven't seen any of them in a couple of years, but i'm sure he's got the next biggest best engine in something, his sister's getting old, and his ex/my ex still probably won't talk to either one of us...

ah, the good ole days have yet to end

This is a true story, really!
I few years back I was building a 1940 LaSalle street rod in a shop in Biloxi Mississippi with another friend who owned the building. His real name is Ralph West and he can confirm this tale.

We were talking back and forth as we fitted the body to a new frame about how damn cheap people are and even to the point where they make fools of themselves.

Here is the tale: Ralph said lets run a test on cheap and stupid. What he did was run an ad for $7 in the local paper. The ad read, 57 chevy 2dr, good condition and runs ok, $500 and his shop phone number.

The phone rang off the wall as we laughed our ***** off at the people that called for this car..... Oh by the way we did have a 57 chevy.

A typical call: "Yeah, callin about the 57 you got advertised." "Yeah, does it run? Does the paint look good? Hows the body?" Ralph would say: "Yeah its all pretty darn good, ya wanna come and see it?" The call says "Uh, I'll get back to ya!"

This was the way things went for several days until Ralph finally lost it with this last call: Caller: "yeah amn calling about the 57' ya got for sale." Ralph says "What do you need to know?" Caller; "Yeah hows the inside look?" Ralph: "Its damn near perfect, it belonged to a little old lady who only drove it once a week to the flippin bingo hall."

Caller now says: "Really, what about the tires and engine and glass, does it have a radio, is it two toned and could you drive it over to Gulfprt tonight so I can look at it and here it comes......... Is that the best you can do on the price?"

I watched as Ralph got so red in the face I thought he would explode... Then he said to the caller; "Tell ya what buddy-- If you can get here before 5 o'clock I'll let you have the car for $75, ya want it?"

The caller says; "Well, let me talk to my wife first."

Ralph hangs up the phone and says you now see what I was telling you about people. Man how stupid and cheap are they. He gave the car away to charity...... Hee- hee!

I actually honestly believe you I run into similar scenarios often Makes me wanna try something similar.
However with me its military stories;
I know this is not a military forum but long story Short I did 10 yrs In the Marine Corps In the Infantry I proudly wear My vetrrans Cap and have the usual bumper stickers you normally see
You would not i mean would not believe the Bu**hit stories I hear
every damn body is a flipping war hero Man its discusting.
if you want I can elaborate at another time But like i said this is a Hot rodders siter Not Militry site But I was just making a parralel.

had a friend at work with a decent looking monte, a little built but we all knew he didnt build it ... he bought it as it was.

one day he was telling us how he took it to jiffy lube and had race oil (of some kind) put in it cause it would give him an extra 10hp. now it was mid march so the weather was changing, and without missing a beat my friend tim asked him if when they did that, if he had them change the air in the tires from winter air to summer air, cause it would help his 1/4 times because it was lighter. ends up he went back to jiffy lube the next day
he came to work MAD

i still get a laugh at that from time to time

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this is a great thread

From The Fast & The Furious-- "you're lucky that 100 shot of naawsss didn't blow the welds on the intake" HAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA

just like on the previews for the new one where he picks the front tires up while driving in the desert, on dirt...dirt...i hate those movies. they are a disgrace to car culture.

I don't want you to think that I'm being a know it all or something but the engine/motor thing is wack! We call the part of the train that pulls the train an "engine". We call the place that we stay in overnight when we take a trip a "motor lodge". We call water craft "motor boats" and we call the big vacation behemoths that we see running up and down the interstates "motor homes". So what's up with all of this? What’s up with the English language? And what’s up with me? Sometimes I'll call the propulsion unit in my car an engine and sometimes I'll call it a motor. Should we call a "motor home" an "engine home"? Should we refer to a "motor boat” as an "engine boat" and should an overnight hotel be called an "engine lodge"? Just bugging ya. When ever I take an automotive class I make it a point to call the engine a motor. It usually bugs the instructor to the point where he will say, "The correct word is engine. An engine is internal combustion and a motor is electrical and from here on out we will refer to it as an engine".
And then I usually respond with, "Ok I guess I came to your class tonight on my engine cycle and this weekend me and my wife and kids are gonna take the engine home down to the lake".

Pencil and paper............................................. .............. $ 4.59
Advanced engine diagnostics class................................... $189.00
Instructor with the deer in the headlights look.................... Priceless!

Chris Kemp
Once a class clown, always a class clown.

explain "toting the wheels" please
Thanks
Duane

lifting the front tires

OK,I was just on the Jeg's web page looking for "Toting the Wheels" bars. Funny, all they have is "Wheelie" bars. They didn't even have "pull the wheels bars","Lift the wheels" bars, they didn't even have "Papa Willy" bars. ***
They do have nice Engine stands! you can even get a pan that fits under them to catch any motor oil that may leak from your engine. No adapter's for motorcycle engines though. I wonder if you could hook up a small motor to rotate the engine on the engine stand? Well I gotta go change the blower engine for the heater in my truck.
ROF
Duane