Ive got a friend who is like this. Talks about all of this stuff he is going to build and bla, bla, bla.
He is trying to finish a 351w build on a very exotic looking MPH body kit Fox Mustang.
I built the short block for him, with a mild hyd flat tappet cam, around .550 lift at 112 LSA.
Anyway, I tried to tell the idiot to buy a good set of used aluminum heads along with a used 4bbl intake and be done with it.
He spent $450 on the 1980's iron heads that came on the car, just to get them back to stock.
Then he installed an aluminum 351 2bbl intake.
I told him the rockers would have to be shimmed to run that cam that I gave him. He about pooped his pants when I told him that. I also told him that the stock springs are going to float, and he would be lucky if he didn't drop a valve with the 2 piece retainers.
I helped him get the intake on, and some other odds and ends. I tolld him to get the MSD dizzy {I WAS able to talk him into buying that##, and we would drop it in.
I just happened to look in the dizzy hole, guess what, no oil pump shaft
He said how did WE miss that, I told him there wasn't any damned WE to it, that he was an idiot, and I had already told him, after I built the short block, that he would have to install the shaft when he put the oil pump in.
At that point I left as I didn't want to be there when the oil pump shaft falls into the oil pan. I did tell him in an email to put Vasoline on the end of the dizzy shaft then put the ops in the hole, and that may keep it in long enough to get the ops in.......
Cheap is fine for coffee makers, plates, forks, etc, but sometimes you spend more money being cheap.............he will learn.
He is trying to finish a 351w build on a very exotic looking MPH body kit Fox Mustang.
I built the short block for him, with a mild hyd flat tappet cam, around .550 lift at 112 LSA.
Anyway, I tried to tell the idiot to buy a good set of used aluminum heads along with a used 4bbl intake and be done with it.
He spent $450 on the 1980's iron heads that came on the car, just to get them back to stock.
Then he installed an aluminum 351 2bbl intake.
I told him the rockers would have to be shimmed to run that cam that I gave him. He about pooped his pants when I told him that. I also told him that the stock springs are going to float, and he would be lucky if he didn't drop a valve with the 2 piece retainers.
I helped him get the intake on, and some other odds and ends. I tolld him to get the MSD dizzy {I WAS able to talk him into buying that##, and we would drop it in.
I just happened to look in the dizzy hole, guess what, no oil pump shaft
He said how did WE miss that, I told him there wasn't any damned WE to it, that he was an idiot, and I had already told him, after I built the short block, that he would have to install the shaft when he put the oil pump in.
At that point I left as I didn't want to be there when the oil pump shaft falls into the oil pan. I did tell him in an email to put Vasoline on the end of the dizzy shaft then put the ops in the hole, and that may keep it in long enough to get the ops in.......
Cheap is fine for coffee makers, plates, forks, etc, but sometimes you spend more money being cheap.............he will learn.
