Boss hired a new guy who apparently has EXPERT knowledge of auto mechanics...

And in the first conversation we have he tells me that my '67 327 with 202 heads (he called them camel "bump" heads) running 10.3:1 compression would run better with a Holley 850 to 1000 cfm on top of it. I told him that it would be WAY overcarbed and he said he's seen dozens of them with 850's on them and that I was undercarbing it with a 625. Just shows you how many "experts" there are out there who don't know ****. And worst of all, I have to try to manage this guy so he doesn't give customers bad info...

 

Yeah, unfortunately there are alot of armchair hotrodders....just keep in the fact that you have a car to be proud of and he can only tell you about ones that he has seen....

 

You sure are lucky to have such a knowledgable and helpful person to give you advice, do you need to ask him for it or does - out of the kindness of his heart - does he just come forth with these gems of wisdom and experience.

 

Don't you know bigger is better. Bigger carb, bigger cam, bigger valves, bigger motor, taller tires, taller gears, BIGGER ****. There are a bunch of "experts" who don't have a clue that a motor has to be tha sum of the proper balanced parts. They read some magazine and become instant experts. They haven't even slept in a Holiday Inn.

 

What kinda line of ******** did he lay on the boss to get the job? Sounds like one of the experts that only can tell you what the ****izer says is wrong with the car.Change parts till he gets to the right one.

 

give him a 6 cyl chev dist to change the points in....bet he cant get the point strap loose form the post that goes thru the body of dist,,,,

 

Have a convo in front of your boss and bait him into explaining this wisdom. Maybe he wont be around long.

 

i bet he has a berlinetta with a stock 305 that runs 11's.

 

I hate guys like that so bad... especially when you have to work with them. I use to work at a place that didn't pay the new hire's real well so we got every gem that had ever tried to change his own oil. Had some real winners, and I had to train them. Had more then a few guys I BEGGED the boss to fire. In my experience these guys don't last long as they usually wrote a check with their mouth in the interview that their skills can not cash.

 

Makes 500 HP on 87 octane.

 

What an idiot. It's obvious to anyone with half a brain that what you really need are a couple of 1050 Holley Dominators on top of a tunnel ram. Geez, people nowadays don't know squat about cars!

 

hey if we did not have a few instant experts how would we get any entertainement??? thats the reason God put some of these jokers on earth

brings to mind my son in law had a "chrome" edelbrock carb, seen the truck last week yep it was made of kinda bright? aluminum

was fun showing him my "endurashine" 650

 

I'm with the dual dominators answer....

 

Proof that everyone serves a purpose. Usually not the one they think they are serving.

 

maybe he thought your camel bump heads were chopped and channeled. the really flow when they are chopped and channeled.

what kind of work do you do?

 

All I can say is 750 is too much ,It works but the sccrews could be turned all the way in. A 670 is perfect............. Introduce him to the HAMB

 

Workin' in a dealership shop I know exactly how you feel. One ****tard we hired a few years back had a near stock honda that he took the wiper arms off of to "save weight". Kid swore up and down that he could take on about any car or sportbike on the street with his Civic. Shut up real quick when the boss smoked him with a bone stock Mustang GT.

They don't last long, same kid put a freeze plug in a Ranger a couple weeks later, then started to do a trans flush on it. The plug he put in dropped out as soon as the engine got warmed up, and he just kept on doing the trans flush with a river on coolant on the ground right next to him. We had to buy the customer a new engine, ****ed cause the kids last paycheck only covered about 1/5 of it

 

this kinda reminds me of a experienced mechanic we hired. i was needing a left hand threaded 3/8 nut he handed me one. i told him these are right handed threads he said turn the nut over i had it upside down.

 

Sorry to double reply .Its hot here and Im extremely bored,,,,Ask him what the formula is for figuring out cfm for a motor .That should shut him up .

 

My expert mechanic brother-in-law says cruise control kills engines as it doesn't allow them to breath. Hmmmmm.

 

An old boy I used to work with told me he had a Hodaka bike with oversized valves and an Isky cam in it. Said it really screamed.
I'll bet it did.
Later,
****

 

Had a guy show up to buy a B&M blower setup I had for sale and was telling me he was going to put it on his "built" 350 with 11 to 1 compression. I tried to tell him that was way too much compression for a blower motor and maybe he shouldnt buy the blower unless he was going to change a few things or build a motor more suited to supercharging. Even suggested a couple books on the subject (***umed he could read). He started telling me all about how I was wrong and it would work fine etc. He bought it, been about a year and he hasn't called to tell me my blower melted his engine so I figure
A. He never got around to installing it and it is sitting in the shop so he can brag to his buddies how "someday he's gonna bolt that thing on his ElCamino and whip thier ***es".
or
B.Or the El Camino in question had a stock 350 with a bunch of miles on it and it is running fine.

 

Those oversized valves for a two stroke are RARE!

 

Had an "expert" looking at my 50 vert this monday, said he had restored 15 to 20 of em, had to call his trooper buddy to ask where the vin was on the frame.......downhill from there........hope he reads this

 

speed of light is quicker than the speed of sound thats why guys like him appear smart ......then they speak.

 

EXPERT = EX (has been) + Spurt (drip under pressure)!







Good Luck... it's hard to control a "loose cannon"!

 

Man you have a golden opportunity to win through doing here. Guys probably a blow hard or a nervous man who thinks he still has to impress rather than calmly and cool handed fix the problem at hand. Not the go to guy your Boss thinks he is. Keep doing your job well and eventually the opportunity will come where you win in front of everybody, he'll feel like an *** and go back to his corner and won't come out.


good luck to you,

Tim

 

Years ago I was headed down Madison Ave (Seattle) toward Madison Park. Driving my O/T 67 GT500. Stopped at light...dumb*** of my acquaintance (family) pulls up next to me on some ring-a-ding dirtbike....he revs it up....light turns....we take off...I get to hear him miss two shifts as I pull away from him handily. We do it again at next light...no difference. Pull into the Chevron station at the bottom of the hills, he follows me in and starts talking about how he needs to adjust the clutch, bunch of other ****ola excuses. I am standing there talking to a friend that had come in for lawn mower gas and this other 2-cycle idiot just won't shut up about his bike-racing experience and skills. When he can tell we just don't give a rip...he climbs on that thing, kicks it over (blessedly, it started on first kick), drops it into gear, revs it up beyond 'not necessary', and dumps the clutch in an effort to provide us with a demonstration of his prowess. Well, there is a God - the dumb*** loses control of the bike and it flips up and over and just kicks his **** all over the gas station lot - most entertaining 15 seconds of my life. Neither myself nor mower-man stuck around to see if he was alright, or to hear the bevy of excuses that were imminent.

I just love it when these guys get what's coming to them in front of their own audience.

dj

 

I am not the most knowledgable person but if I dont know I ask someone that does or I keep my mouth shut. These people will pay the stupid tax sooner or later.

 

So I heard this a little differently

X = an undefined quan***y or ZERO
Spurt = a drop or drip running off your chin...

Remember that when someone says they have 40 years of experience, it could be they learned for the first 6 months, then tried to repeat what they learned for the next 39.5 years.. Never growing or learning...