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Ok, now the DOHC crossflow head, design it, so we can get it into production. Oh, and we need it by next week.

When the pressure was on, grossman took a dive and the bears never really pressured manning at all which is what it takes to beat the colts. I think the replacement bears showed up for the game. Well, all except Urlacher, one man defense. Grossmans lack of an arm really suprised me, he consistently underthrew about every pass and was picked off on crucial plays which demoralized the team IMO.

Can't stop the manning train baby! Sorry, I had to say it. Larry and his MoJo sidetracked the bears! I thought it was going to be a blowout after the first 15 seconds, but Rex "Gross"man will be looking for a new job after fumbling and throwing interception after interception taking them out of contention for the big one.

I'd stay dodge, several people here, like Leroy Gutierrez and Vernon Leseberg, have swapped cummins into chevy's! Vernons is a '72 4wd and Leroys is a 2002 4 door dually chevy. The frame brian has is straight, everything is there, no cut wires that I saw. Need a 2002 dash to make the gauges painless. I'd look for an '02 cab and front end, put a dump bed on it and paint it. Mind you this frame is totally rust free and looks like factory new being from NM. I thought about buying it and putting my '97 body on it, but my gauges aren't compatible. His number is 505-835-1586, if your interested in talking to him, his name is Brian Chavez, diesel mechanic par excellance!

Diesel rundown; Ford and Chevy, light duty diesel, rating = life to rebuild interval is 250,000 miles. Dodge, medium duty diesel, rating = life to rebuild interval is 500,000 miles. Diesels are certainly the most efficient way to go and get the manual trans! I have 3 dodge diesels with either the 5sp or 6sp and make sure you get the 3.73 axle ratio, the 4.11 or 4.56 suck balls, 1997, 1999 and 2004. Mpg goes hand in hand with HP. The 1997 = 26mpg avg (2wd reg cab 190hp), the 1999 = 22.5mpg avg (4wd ext cab 235hp), the 2004=17.6mpg (4wd quad cab 320hp). HP costs money, but I'll tell you the '97 pulls great with 190HP and 400lb-ft of TQ. Yeah, the '04 pulls better but you still have to stop. The '99 gets the best overall marks from me pulling, since it gets better mileage than the '04, less than the '97, but has alittle more power than the '97. I get 17mpg avg pulling heavy gooseneck trailer loads (14,000+lbs). My backhoe (JD500 series weighs 24,000 so I don't pull that with any of my dodges. Buddy here has a complete '02 dodge single wheel 1 ton frame, 4wd, with engine, trans and tc factory original, 69K miles, $5000. If you were to buy an '02 cab, slap a flat bed on it, you should be in for less than $12K total for a nice truck! Went with my buddy and his '02 Ford quad cab diesel 3/4 ton. He has the superchip tuner in it set on economy. Drove 430 miles, averaged 14 miles per gallon empty!! Another two buddies have the '04 Duramax dually 4wd's, try 17mpg empty and about 12 mpg pulling light trailers (less than 8K lb). To me the choice is simple. Also look at resale values! Dodge is significantly higher here than either of the other two. The '02 ford was just recently purchased for 13K with 169K miles on it. They had a '99 dodge, but it was 18K and had 139K miles. Chevy and Ford have creature comforts, but if you want a TRUCK buy a dodge.

Well, she said to "make sure he's dead!" HELLO!

Wow, so much bickering over so little. Here in NM I could be my own forum all together. Gee, I'll have to buy me a couple of mirrors, just to have a z meet! Ok, so here's a possible breakdown. Texas is big, but take alaska, tear it in half and still have the two biggest states in the union. What exactly is the purpose of regional forums? Warren lives in the south (which is anything south of arkansas IMO, not to be confused with the Deep South), along with scottie, z-gad, grumpy, and a whole pile of others. East, well, that's east of the mississippi, which includes folks like Mike Kelly and pardon me, my brain can't remember anyone else over there except muspuppies I think, no wait he's in Kentucky. States like Illinois, Indiana, New York, Maine, Jersey, Mass, etc, etc. Texas, well, Texas is just that, it really doesn't belong to the union anymore, hats to big, boots to big, butts we love ya'll anyway! We have Nextel group which is the carolinas. Then you have the north which is anything above colorado, like wyoming, montana, SD, ND, Michigan, Wisconsin. Then there is the midwest, which is iowa, kansas and nebraska. Then there is the hillbilly group, oklahoma, arkansas, West Virginia and Virginia, Tenessee, Kentucky. Sorry guys and gals, but even you know it's all too true. Of course, the southwest region, NM and AZ, simple and sweet, nobody can stand the heat, but at least good rust free cars come from down here. Then there is the West which is Colorado, Utah, Nevada, and Idaho. Which brings us to Northwest, which is Washington and oregon. California, deserves it's own, just because everyone that's from there thinks they are special cause they have more money than the rest of us do. Well, they do so deal with it. Everything in California costs twice as much as anywhere else. Yup, even strippers! The frozen group is Canada and alaska. We never hear from them till spring cause the keyboard is frozen!! International group, which is everywhere else other than the continental 48, alaska and canada. Yes, Hawii is international.

For 7K we can easily surpass the HP and TQ goal with just 406 cubic inches of sbc. That's sad IMO for the fords, which is the main reason I don't do fords unless they are trick. My all time favorite ford engine that I ever built was the 427 ford side oiler! The 390/428 is a close second with the Clevors coming in third. Fords lack of 4 bolt mains is the big drawback and the lack of good flowing heads relegates us to using aftermarket heads to achieve any big HP numbers.

Same color my boy picked. If it ever gets painted that is.

Well, ditch the 1.82 pg gear set, won't last long with that kind of HP.

Ouch! $12K, dayummmm.

[ I'm not as biased as you all might think. The sbf has some inherent drawbacks considering factory blocks and heads. Blocks suck, heads don't flow. But, if you get a dart block and some AFR heads, then your in the ball game, just down on cubes. Ala Eagle crank and rods and we have that brought up to at least a level playing field, but at the cost of mucho dinero. 383 build is next week, after that I have a proposed 434 build for a hybridz member, so after that if I win the lottery your in. Well, maybe you win the lottery and your in.

To put it mildly. A 306 fully built, solid roller cammed, with compression and NOS might get that done in a 2750lb race weight car. On motor with 9.5 compression, not a chance unless it weighs like 1500lb. One of these days I should do a ford engine. All motor and see what I could squeeze out of it. I've done several of the clevors for circle track back 10 years ago and I wasn't all that impressed. But today we have heads like AFR's and the like.

Cough, Cough, in what a 1500lb car? I seriously doubt the performance claims in anything heavier than that!

The tig I bought which is the 200 amp model, was $3100 or so delivered to the door with consumables. About $2900 or so just the welder, cooler, 25 foot tig torch and 25 foot pedal. Truly an awesome machine with a great manual and totally digital controls and infinite adjustability in 1 amp or volt increases. Truly has alot of higher end machine features for the mone and draws only 30 amps at 200 amps welding power!!!!!! Simply love it and Grumpy was the one that turned me on to it!

That is too cool!

I don't know how that is but there TIG welder kicks butt!!! I would imagine that the plasma is top notch!!

Mike, I thought you already bought a trans? Slacker.

You Da Man Mike!!!!

Would somebody P L E A S E give SuperDan a z.

Darwin award candidates for sure!!! The best one I've ever witnessed was at blasting school back in the 80's. 3 darwin award candidates stole some dynamite and electric caps (#7's) and decided to go fishing. One was holding a video camera, one put a #7 cap in a stick of dynamite that was wired to some electric wire. The other was to put the ends to a car battery. The guys thought that they would touch the wires, then the other would throw the stick into the river and they'd wait 7 seconds for it to go off and then they'd have some fish. Well, dynamite delay fuses or caps are rated in milliseconds not seconds. Good thing the camera man wasn't standing too close to the 2 stooges, but it was captured on film and showed to us at school. 2 less morons in the world today. Priceless.

Unless your driving that on the street and trying to get mpg's, you may want to jet it squared up, the same on all four corners. Properly tuning a car takes along time. I've actually never finished tuning any of mine on the strip.

Just curious. Thought I'll poll the masses and see how many run vs. how many don't.

If it has 4 corner idle then it has an adjustment screw. It doesn't look like the one on the front, takes a small allen wrench to adjust. With the carb off the car and holding it up to the light the primaries and secondaries should be close to the same as far as opening. Just slightly cracked, probably .015 of an inch or so is a pretty good starting point. I really like the 4 corner idle with big cams.

Every time you people start to seem normal I just up my meds. When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro! Around here it seems to be pretty weird all the time. Must be a float problem. Are you using phenolic floats or the brass ones?