[blykins]

Not offended by you Paul, I just thought it was poor taste to to start an argument in someone's build thread. I post these threads for a reason, basically so the customer will get a pictorial and detail-oriented step-by-step of the engine as it goes together.

If I were in Jeff's shoes, I would rather have a bunch of "atta-boy's" and "wow, that's a nice lookin' engine" than a bunch of guys arguing because the engine builder isn't doing the things that *they* would like to see done.

If you want to get down to it, an engine dyno will never simulate the true environment of the engine in the car. Sure, you can bolt headers and sidepipes on, and you can use the correct air cleaner, but what happens when you put the engine in the car and the hood shrouds most of the air cleaner flow? Should we dyno with the front end of the car around the engine then? What happens when you're shipping an engine half way across the country into a totally different climate, or half way across the world as I've done many times? Should we put humidifiers and heaters into the make-up air feeding the dyno room?

You can only do so much, and if anyone is *that* concerned about what horsepower their engine is making in real world conditions, they need to stick the car on a chassis dyno. Period.