Where did I ever say I knew it all? Sorry if I've been on this board learning and helping for the last couple years answering questions from how to change O2 sensors to how does a supercharger work?
If you think I've never had an intake off a car, swapped exhaust, engines, rear ends, rebuilt auto overdrive trannies, fwd, rwd, or done bodywork, your wrong. I've got the dirty *** clothes hanging in my closet right now... Not the dirty dirty dirty and torn shredded, ones. Those go to the garbage can. LOL.
I was rebuilding auto overdrive tranny's when I was 18. It wasn't fun, and I certainly didn't do it because it was my job. But I did get the job done. I've owned 8 cars. 5 Mustang's, everywhere from a 77 Mustang II with 180k on it, to a Dodge Shitow. Have I ever swapped rod bearings? Please refer to last car I mentioned. Question answered.
I didn't see myself being an *** before somebody implied I didn't know what I was talking about. So I posted the flow numbers, posted links to where I got them, posted my research, posted why, and told the person who said I didn't know what I was talking about to jump in a lake.
I'll be honest with you. I don't like working on cars. I'm tired of it. The only reason I continue to do so is I don't like calling the Ford dealer and asking how much, only to find out ever repair is $500
. My daily driver is what I have. If it breaks, I have a deadline to fix it. Gotta be working. I never had it easy, my first car was a 1977 Mustang II Fastback 302 V-8 C4 that sat in our yard for 3 years before I got it. It had 170k on it, and I put up the money to fix it up and get it onto the road. I worked my *** off to get my first 88GT. When the clutch and waterpump took a dump less than a week after I bought it, I was the one under the damn thing wrenching. When I got faulty ujoints that took out my driveshaft, blew my tranny case, busted up my cats, broke a chunk out of my engine block, broke my motor mounts, shot my starter off, and generally took my entire driveline out, who do you think was under the thing? That's right, I was.
Everybody wants to come up and accuse me of not knowing anything. Not having any real world experiance. Never modding a car. Never working on a car. Have I read magazines? Yep, had a few subscriptions for a while. What did I take away from them? Basic theory of operation, mostly. What have I learned from being on the Mustangworks? I have access to information about 1000's of members cars, their mods, their successes and failures. Their performance, combos and tons of other info. There is a ton of awesome people on this board. If you think you or I will EVER know as much as the collective knowledge of the pro's on this board, your nuts.
There are also a few 10-20-30-40 post fly by night people who come in here not really knowing the real deal. They know their buddy got this car into this time, or their buddy who works out of his garage says this or that.
Here I like knowing I have 13,875 buddies that I can ask questions of. I don't have the umpteen millions of dollars to do every single one of those combos. Do you? If you do, that's great and I'm envious, I wish I did. Instead I have to rely on what I've personally seen, and the information that my friends, and others have posted that they have seen or done. My car isn't modded all to hell right now, I plan on getting something else as soon as I can afford it. It'll still run it's 13's on a good day, 14's on a bad one needing a tune.
It doens't take an expert to tell people .600 lift with stock heads isn't a good idea. Or that stock intakes on 347 strokers isn't gonna do real well.
When I post that and I have somebody right after me posting that I don't know what I'm talking about, that his 87 GT with S/D has an X cam and it goes to beat all hell with stock heads, I get defensive. Not so much because he is contridicting me, it's because he is wrong, and now he's telling another member to go and make a stupid mod, waste his money, and get disappointed. That really pisses me off.
Every time I buy a car I ask what the owner has done to it. Not cause I care what he's fixed. It's cause I want to go back and fix it right. So many people who work in the auto industy, or are mechanics just have NO CLUE. I speak of this from PERSONAL experiance. Clutch specialists who forget half your bellhousing bolts, ASE certified tech's who have never done a brake job, mechanics who can't put brakes back on right. I have personally dealt with these instances. So when I come across as harsh, it's generally because I have some real world knowledge to back my position up, and I feel I have been directly attacked, and the person attacking me stands against the great majority of information that I have learned, be it HANDS ON, or FROM THE RESPECTED MEMBERS OF THIS BOARD's hands and eyes.
Later,
Kell