More poorly built engines

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In the same vein, it's unwise to believe ANY supplier is honest nowadays.

I paid California Import Parts about $300 for a set of stroker I-beams. Weight span was 16 grams. (You can only shave about 6g off an I-beam type rod.)

They refused to replace the set or to refund my money.

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By comparison, the last set of rebuilt stock rods I got from RIMCO had a weight span of only 6 grams and two of them were within 2g of the lightest -- an easy set to easy to balance.

-Bob Hoover

Scat I-beams with ARP bolts: $250 and all within 1g ;) (don't take my word for it, weigh them anyway)

Jan

While on the subject of suppliers, I was at OVW today talking to Nancy (and buying a wheel bearing). I was saying something to her about something I'd read in a sermon and asked her if she'd heard of your shit. She said she hadn't seen you in a while and told me about how you guys used to argue about VW's outside the shop. Any case, small world, eh? Back to the question -- I can trust Nancy, yeah? I know I've gotta use my judgement on parts and work, and right now I'd say it feels like she's damned honest. Thanks and have a good night!

-Kevin

Fuck. Nix this. Supposed to be private.

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No problem. Nobody reads this shit anyway :-)

Yeah, Lou & Nancy are honest, in my opinion. But that's only based on knowing them for 25 years or so.

I'm not sure what she meant by 'arguing' unless it was over at their old shop, where I had words with a fellow who thought it was a good idea to run-up wide-five lug bolts with a pneumatic tool set to about

Speaking of the 'sermons,' I offered Nancy a chance to sell the printed version. She turned me down flat :-)

-Bob Hoover

Didn't that idiot know it was just a matter of time before those lug bolts came loose and fell out? It's not like he couldn't have just bumped up the air pressure a little bit and got the damn things on there TIGHT like they're supposed to be.

I'd buy a copy. Have you considered marketing them elsewhere?

Tony

..................I'd buy his complete works in a heartbeat. And I wouldn't be worrying too much about the cost either.

Reminds me of my friends Humber engine which he bought at an autojumble (swapmeet). Someone had rebuilt it in the past and found two of the bores scored. So instead of getting the engine bored up to the next size, just had the two cyliners that needed doing done. Goodness knows how long the engine had been running with different sized pistons!

I think that was the guy she was talking about, she only touched on it for a second or so. She was telling me about some more blood flying in OVW. Do you know Javier (local mechanic at Carriages LTD or wherever)? Apparently he was talking about one of his theories and someone said something to Nancy and she got pretty damned mad. Javier's a way nice guy -- he doesn't deserve that kinda shit. Speaking about the sermons, would you care if I printed many many copies out and stuck em under the windows of beetles with the rims and chrome shit? I'd feel pretty smug after doing that and it'd give them a chance at redeeming their POS. But yeah. Any case, OVW is the place.

-Kevin

I was thinking about asking her (and you, quite obviously) if I could make a million copies and set em in there, cuz copies are cheap. Thought about it a bit longer, smoked a cigarette, then I forgot about it. People wont listen to reason, cause it tends to require a bit more thinking to accept.

-Kevin

On Wed, 15 Jun 2005 01:15:38 -0700, Kevin Holzer scribbled this interesting note:

Put a different way: Common Sense ain't so common...

-- John Willis (Remove the Primes before e-mailing me)