Buyer Beware - Rick Ehrenberg
The guys engine rebuilders been a huge suspect when I read this. obviously the original poster does not know much about engines at all to buy this. Now he's going to listen to someone lead him by the nose into spending more money. Let's ditch this 340 you paid all this money for? In favor of a 360? And he didn't do that in the first place? Way too many question marks?????
Uh-huh.
And why do I have the feeling that when Ehrenberg said this 340 isn't what you need, he did so by asking some questions.
Buyer has a fairly heavy car for an around the town cruiser.
Buying a 340 with a single plane coming from a pro-engine builder. Now, why the hell might a pro-engine builder put a single plane intake on it?
Cause the engine as whole is meant to run at a higher rpm?
Then throw a dual plane on it and it's down on power. Solution? Don't do a quick front end teardown to check a cam. Carbs! Yeah! Carbs! That's it! $$$$$
Then "master mechanic" does a ball hone and finds rust... Sure... Even more $$$$$
That amount of rust even a blind man can see. Never heard of wiping the bores clean? Amazing what a blue shop rag on the palm of your hand can feel, even if you can't see it. Now, the mechanic is just incompetent.
But, wait! Mechanic happens to have a 360 over in the corner. $$$$$
Did he also have a rusted up 340 sitting over the corner, too?
The OP is getting hosed five ways from Sunday. The supposed mechanic is either completely incompetent or a thief racking up the dollars.
