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ORIGINAL: Texas Jim

DeeVee,
Is that small metal Edelbrock item on your Mickey Thompson valve cover not a "breather?"  It reminds me of the hot late '60s engines in everyone's cars in high school and just after.  And remember the "filler/breather" cap on the valve cover?  The ones w/ the steel wool in them.  LOL  That cap was also on the filler tubes of the 283s, when the valve covers were solid.  I remember them in my brother's and afew other guy's '57 Chevies that had a 283 in them.  They were the running cars in those days.  Now I look back and think about that BIG car w/ that SMALL V8 in it, even the worked ones... LOL 
And that's a really good looking motor.  I especially like the "old Chevy orange paint" and the fuel pressure gauge.  It sounds stupid now to me, but I remember being quite annoyed when the small block Chevy turned that ugly blue.  As I said before, I built a 350, I believe it was a 1980 block, for my '62 Impala in '83, and I painted it "Chevy Orange."  To me, that was the "REAL" color of the Chevy engine.  How VERY close-minded and what a trip I was back then. LOL  I now feel that a person needs to change w/ the times if they want to live long and happy.  Thanks for the memories. 

(My father's middle name was "Devee."  How did you come up w/ that User Nmae?)

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I used to participate on that "other" forum, you know, the one with the mentally and chemically imbalanced napoleonic bi-polar schizophrenic "been abducted by aliens   that's why I act this way" moderators?

Well, I got into it with one of the mods there and the little prick sent me to banned camp for life for failing to reply to an email he sent me. I never knew I had the damned email until it was too late. Anyway - something must have been slow in their "detection" systems and I was able to log on under a new user name and play for a while longer. I was still pissed off at them, so I chose the name Deviate  - but it seems someone else already had it, so I simply rephrased it as DeeVeeEight. Anyway, that got me back in for awhile, then their system must have figured me out, 'cause I started getting blocked from participating in the forums. I really don't mind - I figure that they are a bunch of turds  who think that their stench don't stink. Ever since they sold the forum the pop up ads became unbearable too. It seems that a lot of people contributed money and information (I did) to that forum, then were unceremoniously dumped for no apparent reason. Now all of that information and money belongs to the owners of that forum and they profit from it, I am sure.

They also had a bunch of new folks come on board who were nothing but a bunch of posers, handing out some really bad information  and claiming to be the authority on the subject. The really sad thing is that for some reason the mods bought into all of this misinformation and thought that these posers walked on water. Most everybody who was anybody worthwhile seemed to be getting sent to banned camp (and pissed at the posers) and one day I simply asked "Hey! Where'd everybody go?" - I was redirected to this (and some other) forum(s) by another member  who was feeling the same way.

I do not go back to that other place EVER! It pleases me to no end to watch the mass migration of members from that site to other more user friendly sites like this one.