Why aren't all questions this easy to answer?

[SandyC]

Ahem, my original post was just a simple, hopefully somewhat humorous comment about something that happened with my engine. Perhaps I can just leave it at that. Now, how about that Michael Jackson memorial...

[trularin]

That is too funny. LMAO!!!!!

[csx4910]

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As I said before, Hothead, I don't know of care how great your mechanic is, ditto for you $40,000 engine. This forum is here to share experiences and questions with members. Lots of disagreements and scuttlebut goes on here every day without bad attitudes toward commenting members. You sound way too defensive and angry. Like someone else said before, if you don't want commentary, use a PM.

Thanks Sandy for bringing us back. I agree that this is a public forum and everyone has a right to thier opinion - that also means when someone disagrees, I am free to share my disagreement as well. i am not angry and defensive, but I don't care for people making comments without all the facts. That being said - I apologize to those whom I might of offended.
Ron
PS Sandy, when will you get your car back?

[Hotfingrs]

Cover your wheaties.....

I don't care for people making comments without all the facts

Fact as stated....

with the throttle to the floor you're only getting about 80% throttle

Fact as stated....

Shouldn't take more than 30 seconds to adjust throttle

So what facts are missing. One fact was stated and one fact was answered. Doesn't take longer than 30 seconds to adjust linkage to get 100% opening. To adjust computer and other componets takes longer. That fact wasn't stated. Maybe if you want someone to address all the facts, they should be posted.....but hey, you don't like people chimming in on a public forum....maybe this post should be moved to the mind readers forum....

[blykins]

Sounds like a nice EFI motor....and some extra hp goodies to be found as well. Good result in the end.

As for public forums, there are always those who like to make roman candles out of their mouths without knowing all the details. We will never be able to change that.

[mikiec]

Enough of the pissing contest. Everybody go to a neutral corner.

Mike

[sdfletch]

May there be peace on earth.

Originally Posted by mikiec

Enough of the pissing contest. Everybody go to a neutral corner.

Mike

[csx4910]

Already have Mickiec,
I didn't mean to start this, I just don't like people jumping to conclusions about someone (in this case Charile) that they don't know but I understand by putting my opinion out there I opened myself up to attack. I am a big boy I can handle it but I won't participate anymore
Ron

[Jamo]

...although, if I may, I've got to relay a story of my own a bit related to what Greek Basturd and Scott were refering to.

When I first got the Kirkham put together about six years ago, something happened about a week before the Fling that year which required me to have the motor pulled. I was up to my ass in work and couldn't touch it, and the mechanic I normally would use was out sick...had to use a guy who did hot rod work who really hadn't dealt with Cobras before. He was damn careful...didn't scratch a thing...and by gawd, he got it all put back together in time to have it shipped from Fresno to London.

Now mind you, this thing had about 200 miles on it. So The Formerly Large Mikie and I jump in it and do some major burnouts in London...despite the additional traction aided weight...and everything runs well. But later in the day, Turk in his CSX and I match off in a high speed run along that old four lane that led from London back to the motels...he had Bob Marsh from Shelby with him and I had Computerworks. So we're about dead even for several miles, and then he just starts pulling away. No way he should be able to do that given the monster I had.

Later, when we all got chassis-dynoed (that would be at the point in time in which Hotfingers and I swapped spit when it appeared I cut in line in front of him), the damn thing only pulled about 360hp at the rear wheels. WTF? I mean, we had some major folks looking at this thing and couldn't figure it out.

A year later, Buckley, Turk and I head to Redding and go flat out on I-5 a few times...again, up to a certain speed, three unpainted tin cans rolling down the highway at the same speed, and then the other two start pulling away (Buckley finally outpulled Turk, truth be told).

The next day, we're cruising around Redding and coming back from Shast Dam and pull over for a cool drink. Buckley comes over and pops the hood after I shut it down, takes the air cleaner off and tells me to slowly floor the gas pedal (motor's off), and starts laughing his ass off.

The linkage was tapping out against the old Lucas fan relay next to the fuse box. The secondaries weren't even opening. So, of course, tool bags come out and he fixes it right then and there.

I couldn't keep my phuking foot out of it all the way back to Sacramento, despite a downpour the whole way home (with Turk stopping at every overpass to light a cig).

Nobody's passed me since.

And as for Hotfingers, as Mikie sorta implied, he knows very well of what he speaks about WOT and a Cobra's ability to fly a fter a little 1/8 mile demo. I would say that the butt clenching that must have occurred is the only thing that saved his driver's suit from a horrific ending. But, by God, he never let go and lived to tell about it.

Moral of the story...even the best mechanics can miss sh!t.

[RodKnock]

A very good friend of mine, who was all things mechanical performed virtually all the work on my Big Block mid-year Vette, as well as many of my other cars, over the years. He/I built 3 or 4 engines for my Vette, the last being a 540ci. Anyway, when he installed them, he would secretly give me only partial throttle just to make sure I was safe with all the new HP each time I moved up the ladder of HP. I only found out many, many years later that he was not giving me full throttle right from the get-go and I never bothered to double check it. Once I had some miles under my belt, after taking it back for something else, he would adjust the throttle.

I'm not saying that happened here, but just relaying a personal experience with partial throttle. I hate when that happens.

[xlr8or]

Jamo it's really a shame we don't have a video of the kiss at the dyno. I was laughing my asss off and the look on Jacks face was absolutely priceless. Hard to believe that was 6 years ago.

[Hotfingrs]

I'm still stunned and haunted by that kiss........actually it wasn't the kiss as much as the tongue.

[Jamo]

I think your wife damn near fainted.

Hey, it was the only way to get you to stop screaming...thought you were gonna rip the guy's head off.

Miss ya, buddy...you know, in a brotherly way.

[mikiec]

Ahhh, the memories.

We did have a good time that year. Jamo, less weight on the pass side now. We may even go straight.

Mike