W2 Mopar inspection w/RAMM
I’m saying exactly what you are saying. And flow bench won’t make you an expert, but it will teach you what is straight bullshit.
That was a reference mainly to the hundreds of magazine articles, web blogs and the like where they spend all their time talking about shape and then defer to the flow numbers as the ultimate arbiter of making power. That’s what I’m saying.
I’ve also said I am not impressed with flow benches that don’t have analog manometers on them. I don’t translate digital numbers into my head very well. With an analog manometer, I can see what an inch of turbulence looks like. I want to see how steady or chaotic the manometer is. Had a set of AFR CNC heads on the bench that were so horrible I had to cut the air to the manometer to the point you couldn’t really trust what you were seeing.
If you can make 50 bucks an hour after paying everything else that’s good money. I probably don’t charge near enough. I did an Indy intake manifold for a customer. And his -1 heads. I used to have before and after pictures of that, but the web site was changed and I have no idea where they are. That intake was JUNK. I could have billed 17 hours on it because that’s what I had in it, but that was $1445.00 and no one I knew was charging that. So I charged 750 and took the loss. That was a case of me not letting a pile of steaming garbage go out on an engine with my name on it. And Indy was not only unapologetic for sending it out like that, they were insulted that I said it was junk and would be embarrased to throw it in the scrap pile before I did some work to it.
That’s why is so damn hard to make money. I just can’t let little stuff slide. And the big stuff makes me lose sleep at night.
