there is a guy at my High School that has a 76 Nova with a 262 small block in it and that he is getting about 450 horses out of it. When i asked him how he said he had dual 4 barrels , 305 aluminum heads a stock intake and it was bored out and had 350 pistons in it! Now he has the car parked at home waiting on his new engine to get finished. It is a 350 with over 850 horses and stock cam lifter and crank. it has aluminum heads and a edlebrock intake with 2 850 cfm carbs on it. The best pat is that he has to put a wheelie bar on it so it doesn't' flip over when he hammers it!!

The first time I heard that one was 42 years ago in PS. I think I've heard it a hundred times since. The good ones keep getting passed on from one generation to the next. Here are some more that just never die.

There's a mint corvette that a guy died in (usually 100 miles away), and they didn't find him for a month. Nobody can get the smell out and you can buy it for $100.

Buddy took me for a ride in his car, and it launched so fast that the backrest broke right off the seat.

I just put a 3/4 race cam ?? in my car.

My car uses so much gas I can see the fuel guage needle moving while I drive down the road.

Buddy blew the engine in his car (usually stock w/2bbl) and the pistons went right through the hood.

My car is so fast even the police are afraid to race me.

The car I used to own would bury the needle and keep going all the way around again.

I put slicks on my car and gained 20mph on top end.

Buddy's Dad put straight moonshine in his gas tank, and now nobody can beat him.

My car was so fast I was scared of it, so I sold it.

Buddy's car was so fast (stock), that GM offered him $10K and a new car for it, so they could study it.

I went by the cop so fast that it broke his radar gun.

I floored my car with open headers and broke all the windows on the entire block.

People are so scared in my car that you can still see the fingerprints in my padded dash.

The police outlawed my car, so I had to take the 4 bbl carb off.

The list is endless.

kitkar

How'bout "I was going 'bout 130 and still had half a pedal to go!"

Or "It'll pull the wheels about this much off the line!" (on 215-75-R14 tires)

There's a million more I just can't think of any more right now.

I think it is funny the things that people say. Being younger, a lot younger and more naive a few years ago, I have heard a lot of things...especially in high school. A few of them were even mentioned here. I have had experience with the 100 dollar test one though. My auto shop teacher in high school had a 83 monte carlo with a crazy 383 in it. When the weather was nice in the spring semester he would bring his car and actually launch it in the school parking lot wiht each kid in the class, one kid after another. These classes were generally small, so it didn't take that long. He really did put a 100 dollar bill on the dash, but there was no way in he!! he was lettin' you keep it if you got it. It was just fun to have a teacher launching a 10 second Monte in the school parking lot!

LOL yea, the list IS endless, just for kicks (and a little humor for those of us who are not fans of ricers, this guy spends a little over 10K to get a whopping 248 hp! worth reading for the laughs.)

http://www.realoldspower.com/phpBB2...ngine+swap+olds

and even funnier....

http://www.realoldspower.com/phpBB2...ghlight=corsica

thought you guys might like 'em, in showing how much stupidity is actually out there.

Only if you drop out the back of a cargo plane!

My dad tells this story: Back in the late 60's, someone asked him and his brother why the cars had big tires and the rear ends jacked up. They said you get better mileage that way because you are always running downhill. Sure enough a few days later this old boy rolls by..........

Wow, its like a contest how much money can you spend?! 35k would have gotten me an 8-9 second american car. What a deuche.

K

Had a kid tell me a few years ago, how he bolted a set of Big Block heads on his small block Nova. Told hom, "Good trick, does it leak any water"....He said "No"

Have a guy at work now. He is 40 years old and should know better. Every time I talk to him, its a new story.
If he isn't building a "streetable" Pro Stock 70 Camaro, he is building a S10 big block Blazer 4X4. Yet, he drives an old ***** box to work, that his mother owns. Yes, he still lives at home with mom

I havn't seen him driving anything decent yet, and we have worked together for 15 years. Still waiting.........

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Sometimes I like to make up my own and tell friends to find out which friends of mine have at least some common sense. The one's that always say, "Really?!?!?!" with a ********* look, I just kinda laugh and say no.

At least I know not to trust them with advice.


MoocH

You really want to hear some, buy a Japanese Sportbike. Every idiot has a story about their friends/brothers/cousins/etc Ninja1000GSXRGT that they bolted a turbo on that would go 220mph.

Okay, for the record the fastest streetbike (production) was a pre-2001 Suzuki Hayabusa, which if lucky would run 192mph, stock. After 2001 all bike manufacturers agreed to speed limit their bikes to 189mph. This was most evident with the Kawasaki Ninja 12R, which was projected to run over 200mph.

As a final note, all motorcycle speedo's read 5-10% high, if not worse, so when your buddy saw his speedo at 140, he was doing about 126.

Or Mother MoPar.....Motor Parts.

These are all great. I've actaully known someone though that sold their jeep because it had too much power and it scared him to drive it. after it sitting there for about a year he finally decided to sell it.

I remember back in high school this kid in my science class thought he knew so much about cars. I can't even remember some of the stupid things he said. So one day I took a picture of a mustang in one of my car craft magazines. I don't remember what it was, something pretty rare. Anyways it was a 26,000 mile original, and when the picture was developed you couldn't tell it was taken from a magazine. So I bring it to school and tell him I am looking at buying this car and can get it cheap. He is sitting there telling me that its been repainted and the wheels ain't right and all this other stuff that is wrong about it. Me and my buddy who knew what I was doing were sitting there trying not to laugh our arses off while he is telling us all this stuff. I also messed with my best buds brother. I told him you should put a cup of sugar in your gas tank because it cleans your engine out and it will run better. About 5 minutes later he comes out of the house with a cup of sugar. I was like no no, don't do that you'll wreck your engine. Thats as bad as the guys that send people that don't know about cars to the parts store or mechanic asking for a muffler bearing or blinker fluid.

Maybe you could send them guys out for a bucket of Steam


bonuts

thats okay...its no worse than my dad sending his ex wife (NOT my mom!) to the paint store looking for striped paint!! to think. she fell for it. muffler bearings too! lol. (definately not my blood line...lol)