5.7 HEMI Vs. 408 Stroker

I think as with a lot of things, new R&D is never as fast as the sales people say. It's nothing new. "We need a deposit to get you on the list..." How much? "Well, it's easiest to pay the whole thing, then it will ship as soon as they are made." When is that? "Well, right now they are being flogged on a test car, but we should have them ready to go in about 2 months." Ok, here's my card #... 6 mths later... "Hello?" yeah, this is Mr xx... you charged my card 6 months ago, and your delivery expectation was 2 months. I now owe extra money for storage, and I have to move the car because of the weather ands torage for the winter. When are we looking at now? "Well, we did have a couple problems with the foundry... the metal wasnt what it needed to be. We couldnt use the softer stuff... it's just not safe. So we ran a new batch, they are being machined... I think probably another couple weeks and we'll be ready to ship. If you want, we'll overnight yours and bill your card. We still have it on file...." ...fast forward another 4 months... "hello?" Hi, is this mark in tech? mark, I did get me Wdget. But I've got the car apart, and in order to get it to fit,it has to be modified... Is this normal? "Well, it's not a factory part, and Mopars are notorious for loose specs on the unibodies. usually it's just a matter of enlarging the holes and it will jump on itself." Really? Because I enlarged two of the four... but in order to get the other two in the right spot, I'd be grinding thru the side plates. "Oh, well try putting the other side in first." I did... twice... before I oveled the holes. "oh.. really? We've never run int that before. Your car must have been hit..." It's my grandmothers. It was never hit. "Oh. Well... um..." Look, if you can't tell me what I need to do, can you send me another one? Maybe this one's bad... "Well, we dont usually do that because you've already modified it." But you told me that was your next step. "But you did it prior to calling us..." Mark? "Yeah?" You're an _SSHOLE. I'm going to pay shipping to return this POS because I dont think I wat to see it in the scrap pile and when I see you guys at Carlisle I'm going to camp in front of your rig with pictures and yell at people you d__chebag... "Well... um... Let me see what we can do. I have another one, but it's a test model. If you pay shipping, I'll send it to you, and you can keep the first one..."

My favorite line besides "..like 2 weeks..." is "We've never seen that before..." I applaud you finishing that Dart. It is Bad ***.