All I'm sayin is, quench ain't the end all be all that all the magazines and forum heroes make it out to be. Everybody reads all these articles in these magazines that have sponsors throwin expensive parts at them push. There's your clue. Those editors will say anything their sponsors want them too.
People go runnin out and spend all kinda money on a quench engine so they can push the boundaries of what pump gas will run on for what? 20 more HP? Ok, let's say everything is a great match and say 50 HP. Then, if they make one tiny mistake guess what? they have a big heavy expensive pile of metal that has to be spiked with race gas.
I'm glad you could put in print what my jumbled mind thinks. How many projects are never completed or sold for pennies on the dollar because it has to be built a certain way and no other will work. Or so they are told. Not saying the other way is wrong, maybe just not right for the majority of people. I'd love to have a zero deck, flat top piston 360 with Edelbrock Magnums with all sorts of neat valvetrain pieces. But the stock 360 short block with pocket ported 587's and stamped steel rockers arms would get the engine in the car a bunch quicker and a whole lot of more smiles per dollar. IF the beater 360 could run 13's and the sophisticated quench engine ran 12's, which would be a bigger surprise to people? Thanks for letting me rant. No rights, no wrongs, just what the $$$ will allow.
