Does it irk you……………

[Professor Fate]

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Oh, yeah.
I can tell right away how old the person who posted "liters" is... Extra demerits if you write "litres" (Okay, if you're one of our non-North American members, I'm good with that).
Only exceptions are Magnums (just to distinguish them from LAs), Gen III hemis or the occasional 2.2/2.5 four banger... You're usually safe by sticking with the factory designations.

 

[oldkimmer]

Have u ever heard anyone say they were engineering down the highway? Kim

 

[mopar head]

I went through most of my life pronouncing Weiand like whey and. Sounds cooler than why and.

 

[MMissile]

It comes out of my deaf friend's mouth as Eagleblock, I give him a pass and never laugh.

50 year friend, has always said edumbrock. Don't have any idea where he got that....but I've never said anything.

 

[ProjectBazza]

Oh, yeah.
I can tell right away how old the person who posted "liters" is... Extra demerits if you write "litres" (Okay, if you're one of our non-North American members, I'm good with that).
Only exceptions are Magnums (just to distinguish them from LAs), Gen III hemis or the occasional 2.2/2.5 four banger... You're usually safe by sticking with the factory designations.
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Just think of all of the Fox Body fanboys running around with "5.0" badges on their fenders.

 

[33IMP]

Just think of all of the Fox Body fanboys running around with "5.0" badges on their fenders.

The really funny thing is they weren't even five liters. The 302 is a 4.9 .
Boss 302, and Z/28 were specially configured to be under the five liter Trans-Am limit, even with a .030 overbore. Mopar was not remotely competitive till the rules allowed destroking a larger motor (340, to 305).

 

[barbee6043]

The term limited slip is a description, Posi and Sure Grip are brand names like Xerox, Coke and Marlboro.

WE used to say that "sum ***** ain't got no get!"
HS English teacher would tell us you are using double and triple negatives,,,or sum thin!!

 

[33IMP]

50 year friend, has always said edumbrock. Don't have any idea where he got that....but I've never said anything.

I mostly hear elderbrock.

 

[1973dust]

I mostly see it spelled that way in an ad for one of those 4 bolt main Chevy 350's (475 horse out of a Vette, you know the ones)

 

[rklein383]

motorcycle, motorboat, motorhome, motor mounts, and if f I remember right, Mopar is short for motor parts.

 

[Oldmanmopar]

My motor, 408 magnum, EQ heads

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That is not a motor that is a POWER source .

 

[Professor Fate]

Just think of all of the Fox Body fanboys running around with "5.0" badges on their fenders.

That's what probably started it, when Ford changed their designation from 302 to 5L. Heck, they even tried it in '66 with the Galaxie 7 litre, but that went over like a lead balloon at the time. But that was how the factory named it, so ya gotta give it a pass.
But Mopar never offered a 5.6! The stripes, hood callouts, factory paperwork all called it a 340- so that's what ya gotta go with.
Explain how a poked and stroked 5.9l Magnum becomes a 408 c.i. instead of a 6.7l.? Only in America...!

 

[ProjectBazza]

That's what probably started it, when Ford changed their designation from 302 to 5L. Heck, they even tried it in '66 with the Galaxie 7 litre, but that went over like a lead balloon at the time. But that was how the factory named it, so ya gotta give it a pass.
But Mopar never offered a 5.6! The stripes, hood callouts, factory paperwork all called it a 340- so that's what ya gotta go with.
Explain how a poked and stroked 5.9l Magnum becomes a 408 c.i. instead of a 6.7l.? Only in America...!

I'm a (not so frequent) member of a Ford truck forum, and the younger guys there can't stand it when I tell them a 460 is NOT a 7.5L!

Screw 'em.

 

[440 Mike]

Have u ever heard anyone say they were engineering down the highway? Kim

Nope. I've heard of an engineer on a steam engine!

 

[33IMP]

If I build a stroked 454, it'll be a 496. (I tell people it's "a hundred over 396", lol)
Chevy put the same bore/stroke in a truck, called it an 8.1
To me, the difference is the vintage of the block.