I think that statement was taking the P**S,

Forgive my 17 year old ingnorance wise malc it catches up with me sometimes heh, but who's statement?

The statement "Get that puppy up to 6000 rpm and 240 mph"

Ahhh I knew it! Lol I should've gone with that on my first instinct, heehee sorrryyy for misunderstanding you. I am young and confused sometimes... ok all of the time.

About 25 years ago I worked for a small compay that manufactured packaging machinery. We hired this guy to be a service tech. Forget about 7/8th of the "stories" he had but one of the better ones he told me was that he owned a Indy Pace car Corvette he bought new from the dealer and that it had an all aluminum 350 He was so totally incompotent and a liar, I finally told one of the owners of the company that this guy had a BS in BS. He was gone shortly after that.

Up untill 2 years ago,I had a 1949 Mercury,this was no led sled.I wont go into all the details, but most of it was fiberglass,full cage,ladder bars,31/18.50/15 M/T street slicks,trans break,250 hp shot of NOS,basicly a race car.It ran 6.30 ET in an 1/8 mile.I drove this thing to the local cruise night one Saturday.So this guy comes up to me as I was getting rready to leave,and starts talking to me about my car.He was older,so I was kind of impresed that he was talking to me,because most of the time most of the old guys just think me and my pals are just punk kids.So he starts asking me about the car and how fast is it and what had I done to the motor and all the usual.So I tell him,and as I'm talking,I could just tell he was just waiting for me to finish so he could tell me about his stuff.After I had finished, he started...."man I had this 57 chevy when I was your age,for fun we used to jump coke bottles.This car was bad,you have a fast car,but this thing would have wore you out!"Usualy,I would have let that slide,but he kept going on about how his car would have out run mine.So I ask him what kind of tires he had on it....he says....L60'S.I ask him what kind of transmision he was running,......he says a 4 speed.I asked him about the motor,.....he says he had a 327 wit "double hump heads!"I ask him about the rear gear,.....he cant rember.So by now he see's whats comeing,and just as he did,I unloaded.I said to him"well.....you know....It's a funny thing......I have a car,with street slicks,trans break,ladder bar set up,a 250 shot of NOS,513 gear,full cage,a prety healthy small block,90/10 shocks,and the car weigh's 2900 lbs......and I can jump coke bottels in the parking lot."He didnt say a word......just put his head down and walked away.

I'm in Auto Tech at the local CC. I love when the kids [most of the guys in the program are 19-20 years old and not long out of high school and don't realize I'm almost 28] try to impress me and I correct them. They usually give me the, "oh yeah, I knew that" mindless gaze and wander off to spill their senseless babble on some other unsuspecting kid that might believe it. I don't even bother trying to talk or socialize with the kids because I can't find one intelligent enough to converse with me.

My mom says I need to learn to play stupid some more, guys don't like being shown up by a chick. I can't help it.

Well I go to high school so I run into crazy stories a lot. This guy in one of my classes has aparently blown up several transmissions, drove across country by himself several times, killed about a dozen cops, put a 350 in a vw that ran in the 9's, banged every varsity cheerleader, beats the living piss out of people everyday (even though hes 6'1 and weighs 130lbs), he does all this and he just turned 16 in January. I could go on for days about that guy. Everything he says I just nod my head and say yep I hear ya. I feel bad for the guy.

I got this thing off the internet, you put it in your intake path and it create turbulance in the airstream and make your gas milage get Better!!

I think these storytellers eventually get jobs and work for some aftermarket place making "fart cans" and "milage improvers"

Tornado anyone? They really work I promise because it spinnnssss! Hmm.. people fail to recognize that the motors vacuum makes the blades spin and.. that's it.. Just another bs part to rake in more money, I'm not even going to talk about the unbelievable benefits of exhaust tip spinners!

the magnetic gas line clamp things are even worse. what is magnatisim going to do to somthing that is not affected by magnatisim, other than attract each and every rust particle from your gas tank and eventully clog the line.

Last-week, I was in automotive class for a while, one guy says his yellow Stealth runs 12's now (Fart-Cans and a K&N filter gives your 200hp, remember?) Where as it ran 14.15s from the factory. The guy he was talking to comes over and tells me about his cousins mid-12-second SRT-4, I'd say its more like high-12's or 13's flat based on what the guys done to it though.

Then the guy says that the third fastest car in the world is a mid-6 second Mitsubishi four-banger. Nevermind all those Funny-Cars and stuff that run a little faster than that.

-GF

This used to be sort of true. Fresh cast blocks were said to be "green". The cores would actually move if immediatly subjected to the heat/cooling cycles of normal use. So the rough castings were left outside to "cure" for a certain length of time to allow for the castings to "relax". Then final machining was performed, and the engine was assembled. Cast blocks are now seasoned in ovens and coolers to accelerate this process. IIRC, lots of race builders didn't call a block "seasoned" unless it had been overhauled at least 3 times, as the hot/cold cycles of that length of time further relaxed the casting.

hi i was reminded of this when i read one of the first few posts.
there was about ten of us standing around our shop when my friend paul thought he would try out his new slicks.
so he pulls up to the concrete slab at the side of our shop and proceeds to rev up the engine then he dumps the clutch at about 5g and hes in reverse.
well he gos flying back words and onto the gravel well i almost peed my pants laughing.
so then he pulls up to try again and dose the same thing again well that was it he put the car away and finished getting drunk.
we laughed for days.
then came our annual hill climb and the first race his ring gear broke and he tore his rear diff up pretty bad.
he wasent laughing after that.
i felt bad for him so i lent him my super shifter with reverce lock out. he hasent don it since.

Doesn't MoPar stand for "Mo"tor "Par"ts??

I love the guys who have Shelby Cobra engines 'cause the fenders and valve covers and horn buttons and their jacket patches have snakes on 'em.

I got a 36 Hudson Terraplane 2door sedan for free from a country boy one time but he kept the engine 'cause it was one of those NASCAR engines that won all the trophies and races in the '50s.