*standing ovation* Truer words never spoken, my friend!

 

Haha, you guys are funny. To be completely honest with you though, my first car was an Oldsmobile (I was only 15 when i bought it, i couldnt even drive yet) which was a GM. The year and a half i had it, i had more problems with it than good times. My Vette is my 3rd vehicle. It is already in the shop and has had more than $1500 worth of repairs PRIOR to this visit to the shop. My 2nd car was a 1999 Ford Escort ZX2. The ONLY thing that ever went wrong with that car was that the AC stopped working. EVERYTHING else on that car still worked perfectly when i sold it. The only reason i sold it was because i didnt want to drive it and it was pointless to keep a car i didnt drive. So, say what you want about Ford, but i think they are pretty reliable.

Then again, i dont really have a preference when it comes to the make of a car. If the car looks good and it has a decent engine, i like it. I am not a Corvette guy, or a Mustang guy, or a Viper guy. I am a CAR GUY!!! I LOVE ENGINES!!!!

But i love Corvettes also lol.

 

Yeh, by and large, me too, my friend. My Cobra was an OK car; there for a bit, I actually kinda liked it... but, it needed way too much $$ into it for it to become anything real serious... so...

One of my favorite cars of all time is the '70-'71 HEMI 'Cuda droptop. Of course, you need to own a small country to be able to afford one these days, but yeh, I love that 426 HEMI.

But, with all that bein' said, if left with a preference, I'd rather be in the 'Vette, hands DOWN!

 

You know...the way to make horse power at the intake level ...is to smooth the air flow out...not make the air "tumble" ...tyo make the air flow smoother at the head area they "port and polish " the valve area ...chambers..they don't rough it up to make the air more disturbed...make sense ??

 

Years ago, prior to getting the "Starship", I had a 1970, 440, 6-pac, Road Runner. That ***** could run. It could hang faily well in the turns. Had it up to 145mph but had to back off 'cause a turn was commin'. Went through 3 tranys, 4 or 5 altinators, (had lots of elec probs with it), and the cam broke in half once. My RR fell victom to five deer crossing the road, about 10:00pm, while I was doin' about 95mph. That was when I was in my early 20s. I've wised up since then. I don't do those late nite Wham-Jams anymore.

 

God yeh, we did that on one of our V8 Vega's from years ago... did a 3 angle valve job at the same time... that thing flowed like a river, and you could really feel the extra power!

 

Sweet Lord; bustin' a cam like that!! We did that on one of our 350's that was runnin' a dual-4 carb setup on a tunnel ram. Grenaded the entire motor!!!! That hurt....

It's funny how when we get a little older, the "Late Nite Wham-Jams" seem much less like a good idea, eh?? The, uh, officials, up here have taken my license from me like 4 times when I was in my late teens... (over 20 yrs ago now).... yeh, I do NOT drive like that anymore!!!!

 

I have a friend(mustang guy) that works in a machine shop and got a turbocharger off of a 1989 labaron in a junk yard. fabbed a bracket and crossover pipe to keep the exhaust pressure the same and hooked it up to the plennum. clames it works great. cost him 25 beans at the salvage yard plus the plumbing. Maybe I'll steal the one off my wifes old Labaron in the barn.....Hummmm!

As for chevy vs ford...I love my new 'Vette and have always wanted one. But I miss my '70 scj Dragpac Torino I had when I was 17. I got it from a crippled guy that work for ford and special ordered it, He couldn't drive it anymore and cryed when I toted it off. The hardcore ford guys tell me it never exsisted but sorry to tell them It did. this guy was an electrical engineer for What is now "Ford raceing" and ordered the car with a NASCAR Boss 429(HEMI). yeeoow...did that car run. unfortunatly it was stolen and never found. I'm not particular about makes just raw American(canada versions included, Topspeed)horsepower. nothin like an american V8. I have owend a bunch of old Fords, Chevy's and Mopars(even a Studibaker Avanti, kinda like a 'Vette). If you take care of them they will all last and bring lots of speeding tickets....Hell, I had seven speeding tickets among others before I had a drivers liscence......and who says you have to give up the late night runs when you grow up....if that's true I'll never grow up..I'm only 46.

 

The guys next door here have a tuner shop... they do this stuff ALL the time! One of the dudes is a master fabricator.. I've seen these guys take a pile of junk and stick it on an import, and viola!.. the thing rocks.

Those cars ain't my cup of tea, that's fer sure, but I do admire the engineering those guys do...

Your concept is sound and proven blueshark!

GREAT post! You had one of the 429 Ford HEMI's?? Dude, that's mighty mighty rare stuff... WAY COOL!