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replicaracer43 said:
I dunno, but there's a lot of horses to be beat! It would appear he was quite the scammer
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I would like to see some proof of that. I never got that impression or saw anything to lead me to that conclusion. What have you seen?
 
replicaracer43 said:
Hey seemed like a good guy, and a knowledgeable builder, but he tended to claim ridiculous dyno numbers that could NEVER be backed up. Often 100, 150 horsepower exaggerated
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Ok, I understand now, but do you think he was intentionally trying to scam people? Seems to me people paid for an engine and got an engine. That hardly seems like a scam. Misrepresented, maybe? I've never seen what his dyno was corrected to. There are several ways to read dyno numbers and no two are the same. Mike just hardly seemed the scammer type to me. When you can call someone up who builds engines for a living and he gives advice knowing you're not going to buy anything just doesn't seem like a scammer to me. I know he's done that for many people.
 
RustyRatRod said:
Ok, I understand now, but do you think he was intentionally trying to scam people? Seems to me people paid for an engine and got an engine. That hardly seems like a scam. Misrepresented, maybe? I've never seen what his dyno was corrected to. There are several ways to read dyno numbers and no two are the same. Mike just hardly seemed the scammer type to me. When you can call someone up who builds engines for a living and he gives advice knowing you're not going to buy anything just doesn't seem like a scammer to me. I know he's done that for many people.
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Advertising... it can be deceiving.

And cheesy as all hell... classic cruiser... fkn dumb. I hate gimmicks.

His builds should have been called "bendover"
"cheek greaser"
and then the baddest of them all..."the sack clapper" for the way he screwed his customers.

Now that's "Classic".

From now on... lames with old cars who cant work on them are called "classic cruisers"
 
MOPAROFFICIAL said:
Advertising... it can be deceiving.

And cheesy as all hell... classic cruiser... fkn dumb. I hate gimmicks.

His builds should have been called "bendover"
"cheek greaser"
and then the baddest of them all..."the sack clapper" for the way he screwed his customers.

Now that's "Classic".

From now on... lames with old cars who cant work on them are called "classic cruisers"
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Now I completely agree about gimmicks. Makin it stupid seems to suck some people in. Where do you come up with this stuff? You must sit around late at night. lol
 
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44 years of racing and building engines running from 8.40’s to 13.80’s and I’ve never quoted a horsepower number. Don’t know, don’t care.
 
Not that bright either. I told him I had to have my cam's base circle lowered. 040, and he actually though I was losing .040 lift..

Wouldn't listen to reason either. But I like YR feel bad for the horse. Don't know why.....
 
Wyrmrider said:
how did you lower the base circle
new lower cam tunnel?
I like YR too
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A bench grinder will lower the base circle. Back in the 1950's Dad was racing Migets. One racer went home after getting beat, pulled the cam and laid it up against the bench grinder. He stayed away from the lobe peak to keep his lift. He ran pretty good the next weekend at Ascot. Have no idea how long the engine ran that way, but it was good that night.
 
IQ52 said:
A bench grinder will lower the base circle. Back in the 1950's Dad was racing Migets. One racer went home after getting beat, pulled the cam and laid it up against the bench grinder. He stayed away from the lobe peak to keep his lift. He ran pretty good the next weekend at Ascot. Have no idea how long the engine ran that way, but it was good that night.
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I did that on a briggs and Stratton mini bike engine when I was about 10, but it didn't seem to run any better, although I thought it was a smart plan
 

Strange, I asked about sleeving the lifter bores when I had the machine work done on my 440/505, at the supossedly best machine shop around Tulsa, they told me they couldn`t do it !
 
I would do it. It helps with oil control and corrects geometry of the lifter to the cam, Also helps with the pressure on the lifter bearing especially on the up.
 
davescuda said:
I would do it. It helps with oil control and corrects geometry of the lifter to the cam, Also helps with the pressure on the lifter bearing especially on the up.
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It’s kinda funny how many 8 and 9 second engines that are out there running weekly without this 600.00 expense. Money that could be used for go fast parts.
 
famous bob said:
Strange, I asked about sleeving the lifter bores when I had the machine work done on my 440/505, at the supossedly best machine shop around Tulsa, they told me they couldn`t do it !
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Probably because some shops could screw up and make it worse than stock.
 
famous bob said:
Strange, I asked about sleeving the lifter bores when I had the machine work done on my 440/505, at the supossedly best machine shop around Tulsa, they told me they couldn`t do it !
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davescuda said:
I would do it. It helps with oil control and corrects geometry of the lifter to the cam, Also helps with the pressure on the lifter bearing especially on the up.
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We used to send out blocks to have the oversize lifter bores sleeved... Then we would machine the lifter bore back to size and redrill the oil passage for the lifters so it wouldn't be blocked by the sleeve.... It saved us from scrapping otherwise good blocks...
 
Thats only a 1/4 mile at a time. Street drive is a lot harder on stuff. I did not do on mine but I wished I did.
 
Only if it w
krazykuda said:
We used to send out blocks to have the oversize lifter bores sleeved... Then we would machine the lifter bore back to size and redrill the oil passage for the lifters so it wouldn't be blocked by the sleeve.... It saved us from scrapping otherwise good blocks...
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Only if they were 426 wedges or hemi....otherwise you spent more fixing than it was worth.
 
". It helps with oil control and corrects geometry of the lifter to the cam"
it should but a lot (most) shops do not have the tooling to do it correctly- especially for a mopar
If a roller check out oversize bodies
 
lowering the base circle wont do squat if you cant adjust the rockers to compensate!
 
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