Funny stuff. And you are right all parts houses refer to automotive internal combustion propulsion unit oil as "Motor oil". I'll have to remember that one.

I got this local kid who is a real pain in my side. He has a neon and i call him the peeon in the neon. He is always tellin everybody how his car is outrunning every fast car in the area. So I am finally sick of this and call his bluff. He starts telling me all this bs about a trim 50 kit on his car and how it will do 9sec quarters yada yada yada. I was in my 66 chevelle SS which is pretty much a slightly improved version of the original 4sp car. It is probably a low 11 car with the decent tires i have on it. We meet at the track on race night and he is saying there has got to be a 500.00 side bet so I say no problem. Well long story short the neon is about a 12.5 quarter mile car and I zoom him pretty bad. The bad part is when I go to collect the money I hear his pregnant girlfriend asking him how are they gonna pay the rent now and what about the electric. I snatch the money and tell him the track boss wants to see him. When he walks away I give the money to his girlfriend and tell her to tell him to shut his yap. The next day I am hearing how he beat me at the track and his trim 50 neon pulled a 9.55 quarter.. sometimes you can't win

Guy sounds like a real jerk. You were very generous to give his GF the money (I would have felt bad about collecting it myself) and he still blows his mouth off.

You must find a way to humiliate him.

I have always heard motor substituted for internal combustion engine or electric, but I have never heard an electric motor called an engine

Vince

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That's true! But what about this: computer programmers often refer to the core of a program (the part of the program that does the actual processing) as an engine. Is it not run on circuitry? So does that make it electrical? Maybe - an electrical engine? Just more food for thought. LOL.

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My roommate has the last edition of the Eddie Bauer bronco, and he decided to jack this thing up on 38" tires. Then he cuts the exhaust off and slaps on a set of headers and thats it. It has a 351 in it and he has removed so much stuff that it runs like crap. He tells everyone that asks about it that it has ported and polished heads, and its bored .030 over making 400+ hp. and inside i am just laughing it up to myself say bull ***** this thing is bone stock with a set of headers. Now if you really want to laugh. There are only 3 or 4 bolts holding the trans to the motor and and each header has maybe 4 bolts in each side. and get this the driver side header has a easy out sticking out of the head that he got stuck. I figured yall would enjoy that. Either way hes my best friend and it gives me something to laugh at everytime he talks about it.

I'm gonna stick my nose in this one. I just can't stand it any more. Most of the people that this thread is talking about just don't have the skill to build any kind of a hot rod. Over the years I have helped many of people including the ones that every body is talking about in this thread. Most of these kids that boast and brag about their junk are just trying to hang with the big boys, they're suffering from an inferiority complex. On many occasions I have got them off to the side and said, "Dude come on, do you really wan't to make your car fast? If so lets do it! You be the helper I'll be the lead man and you by the parts. Together will make it happen and you can quit all this bull". Over the years I have made a lot friends doing this and helped a lot of troubled young kids turn into fine MEN. Kids that have grown up without a strong father figure and all they needed was some guidance.

I do realize that there is some people that you just can't help. But there is a lot that you can help. I have had these young guys cut my grass, pressure wash and paint my house because they wanted something done to their car. I have stood over them almost with a whip telling them how to sand and tape their car so I could paint it for them and I know that they walked away with some hard earned knowledge.

If I had a roommate like the one you described I'd say, "Look tomorrow we are going to fix your truck right and really give you something to brag about". And I'd drag him out there and the two of us would get elbow deep in it and fix it! I mean after all he is your roommate. What were you thinking when you let him move in. Evidently I believe in stronger bonds and morales then most people.

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for a good joke. After all I was the class clown and as long as it's good fun with a limit it's ok. But remember fun at another persons expense is NO FUN. To be little is to be little.

Chris, I have tried to help him, but he is the type of person where you cant tell him anything. And trust me i have spent many of hrs layin in the mud try to fix what he has broke on it. I really dont think there is much more i can do for him. But also back to what you were saying, i actually moved in with him, he kicked his GF to the crub and asked me to move in. hes more that my best friend hes more like my second brother. Great guy but hard headed. If i could keep him out of the mud i might actually be able to help him but that wont happen. All in all the motor is strong but hes cutting corners which will hurt him in the long run

Well I hope I didn't sound to harsh and if I did I apologize. It is good to hear that you think of him as brother. I have a few that are the same way. On the lighter side, the old saying is "You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink". Well two Texan's can. It takes one to hold his head under water and the other one to suck on his but. LOL Now I'm not saying hold his head under water but if you feel like he's a brother just hang in there. Some people you have to show them the way instead of telling them the way.

Chris

I am sure he is hard headed but you cant blame him for everything. Maybe if you could ditch the bronco and get a blazer things might start going a little better... Just kidding sorry everybody I couldn't resist...

i agree

Always heard it was a brick to the nads but I spose but suc would work to.

I remember last year when i was a sr. in high school I had brought my dads pickup back to the school shop. Dad has one of those old 1990 f-250 non-turbo 7.3 diesil pickups and he needed the oil changed in it, so I get the oil draining and i raise the hood and a kid in my class that always tried saying that he was some awsome mechanic (believe me im not saying im one either) comes over and told me I had a catipillar motor in it i thought it was kinda funny when i pointed to the international logo on the air cleaner, he got this funny look on his face and just walked away, i got a pretty good chuckle out of it. lol

I had a nod-and-smile-politely moment around a guy yesterday that I almost forgot to post about--- for the humor of the rest of you. I had to help a buddy move a refrigerator into the garage so the new one would fit in the kitchen. While there, one of the delivery guys started bragging about this "all special H.O. 6 cyl. '92 Pontiac SSEI (or something like that) with 4 piston brakes and high flow exhaust from the factory). Said it had minor rust and a bad head gasket, and he wanted to sell it before all the internals went south. Gradually, he started changing the tale to wanting to swap a new frame into it because it has some slight structure rot (IIRC, there was not a GM car made post '88 with a frame... ).


I was nearly ready to pounce, when he opened the yap a bit further bragging about his old "street special". '71 Chevelle with a 4 speed with an Olds 350 Rocket with 454 Chevy heads. Immediately upon his departure, I asked my buddy for a shovel. He (he's a decent guy, but not well versed in cars) asked why, and I told him if we hurried, we might catch the fertilizer and use it on his lawn. Some people......



In a while, Chet.

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