Temporary Engine

Please state exactly when and where you intend to take this test drive so I can be far, far away.

Why not?

I want to see, I need a good laugh. 10 minutes to bolt in the motor mounts, and he's willing to take that chance?

An idiot is born every minute, i wonder how long his minute was?

LOL

Refinish King

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I'd pay to see that test drive!

Sideshow Bob wrote in alt.autos.gm

Not me, I want to sit on the side lines with some potato chips and beer.

My friend, what my esteemed colleagues are trying to tell you is this. Your engine produces 300+ odd horsepower and at least that much in foot-lbs of torque. Sure the weight of the engine is a lot, but not nearly enough to hold back from all that power. Those engine mounts are the only thing to keep your engine in place as you try to tear up the tarmack.

Think of it this way. When everything is in place, the easiest reaction to the power (and engineered this way) is coming out the back wheels and propelling your 3,000+lb vehicle. If you don't bolt in your engine, the easiest reaction is for the engine to flip in its little cradle.

Ever hear about how some frames have to be reinforced for the power of an upgraded engine? That is not for the weight but to hold the power it produces. That power gets to the frame via the engine mounts.

Good luck!

ps pass me some popcorn, will ya! hahaha

Have someone video tape the test drive. THIS I GOT TO SEE!!!!!!!

Also have them video tape when you return the borrowed engine to its' owner. THAT I'D LIKE TO SEE TOO.

I did not plan to bolt the motor mounts or hook up the exhaust, guage wires or any other unnecessary stuff. Someone told me that I MUST connect the motor mounts, or else the engine could flip upside down. Is that true? I dont want that to happen, but dont want to waste a lot of time bolting stuff either, because I may not keep this engine if it's not powerful enough, and will get something bigger.

This is also why some people have chains to supplement the motor mounts, because the motor mounts can only handle SO much power...

PARTY POOPER!

Refinish King

You Anita Bryant type!

LOL

Refinish King

I was going with two Sony Super 8 cams!

LOFL!

Refinish King

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I would have been able to watch that with my grandson when he gets old enough to understand, what a pisser that would have been.

King, makes you wonder where they come from huh?

I was thinking about this post today during a long drive home in light traffic. Either we are all having our chains yanked or else somewhere there is a village missing its idiot.

LOFL!

Refinish King

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I would have been able to watch that with my grandson when he gets old enough to understand, what a pisser that would have been.

This reminds me of a funny occurance I witnessed. I'll try to be brief, but you know how I am.. sorry.. :)

I was driving home one evening from Walmart. I pulled up beside a mid-sized early-90s Oldsmobile at a stoplight and noticed the heavy steam billowing from the hood cracks. I looked at the driver and he seemed oblivious and obviously unconcerned -- he was chatting on his cell phone. Fighting back the good urge to tell him he had a problem, I chose to tag-along and see just how far this moron would let his motor go. The steam would stop when the person pulled away from a stoplight. It returned with more volume at each stoplight. Eventually, about 6 or 8 miles down the road, the steam vanished.. I guess the guy was thinking "hey, i'm good now, no more steam"... well .. about that time, I could hear the motor start ticking really badly... he made it about a mile further ... the engine noise increased the whole time until finally -- no more noise. He coasted to a stop. I made four right turns and came back around to see him standing there, bewildered, still talking on the cell phone.

I guess that makes me a bad person on some level ! Oh well... I figure someone that stupid really doesn't need to be operating a piece of machinery as complex as an automobile anyway.

Also reminds me of the guy with the 525i and a busted plastic radiator... car would hold no coolant at all. We told him to tow it in. He drove it in anyway to our disbelief... "The gage didn't get to the hot zone on the way over!!" said the customer... "Yeah, well it has to have some coolant in the system before it will register anything on the gage!" said the german auto mechanic

There will always be idiots.

I guess we should have the goverment hold our wee-wees when we pee as well because some people will always pee on the floor. If the gov't is holding our wee-wees, then nobody will pee on the floor.

YAY! Problem solved!

Well at least that gets one self important cell phone idiot off the road for a while. One can only hope that he was closing a $300 business deal while he ignored a $3000 engine going to hell.

" This reminds me of a funny occurance I witnessed. I'll try to be brief, but you know how I am.. sorry.. :)

I was driving home one evening from Walmart. I pulled up beside a mid-sized early-90s Oldsmobile at a stoplight and noticed the heavy steam billowing from the hood cracks. I looked at the driver and he seemed oblivious and obviously unconcerned -- he was chatting on his cell phone. Fighting back the good urge to tell him he had a problem, I chose to tag-along and see just how far this moron would let his motor go. The steam would stop when the person pulled away from a stoplight. It returned with more volume at each stoplight. Eventually, about 6 or 8 miles down the road, the steam vanished.. I guess the guy was thinking "hey, i'm good now, no more steam"... well .. about that time, I could hear the motor start ticking really badly... he made it about a mile further ... the engine noise increased the whole time until finally -- no more noise. He coasted to a stop. I made four right turns and came back around to see him standing there, bewildered, still talking on the cell phone.

I guess that makes me a bad person on some level ! Oh well... I figure someone that stupid really doesn't need to be operating a piece of machinery as complex as an automobile anyway.

Just wire it up with about 30 cents' worth of bailing wire. That bailing wire'll tame those 250 ponies in your V8. Dude, did you escape from a "Tobacco Road" type situation? There's a lot of car juryrigging in that book.