Ace-Garageguy

Cool. I still have one in silver Burlington livery...assuming my remembry is still working.

Worse, worser, and worstest just isn't the right progression.

It depends. Certain classes of drag cars that are pushed to the line, fired up, staged, run, and shut down really wouldn't benefit that much from circulating coolant. We're only talking about 30 seconds running time. Some drag engines, like those that run on alcohol in particular, get enough cooling of the piston crowns and valves from their fuel to prevent catastrophic failure. IIRC, Danny Thompson's recent Bonneville record car had solid billet blocks, with no provision for cooling, and those engines ran for several miles flat out. His father Micky Thompson's Challenger 1 had large onboard coolant tanks, but no radiators, and simply circulating cool fluid from the tanks was deemed sufficient, in the interest of eliminating aero drag from radiators. "Hot rod" engines, on the other hand, assuming a "hot rod" is a street-drivable car, will need a functional circulating cooling system to prevent melt-down. HOWEVER...we'll usually run newly-built engines for 30 seconds to a minute or so to check for oil pressure and oil leaks prior to adding any coolant. But honestly, I'm not current on how things are done today in drag racing. I know some real racers who ARE current frequent this forum, so I'll leave the definitive answers to them.

"With" is a preposition, and we're told not to end sentences with prepositions like "with", but nobody much pays attention to that these days...other than the terminally pedantic.

No problem. Sorry here too.

" Hoarded" kits from other old geezers' stashes frequently find their way into my "hoard", and if I don't build them before I fall off my perch, they'll end up getting "hoarded" by somebody else.

I'm not familiar enough with this car to give you a definitive answer, but in general, coolant reservoirs on a lot of drag cars were nothing really but "burp" tanks, giving the hot steamy coolant somewhere to go other than out on the track. Many drag cars today, and for quite a while now, have no cooling systems whatsoever. Water jackets filled with "cement' were once common, and solid billet blocks with no water jackets at all are seen frequently these days.

Think of driving along the southern coast of France, say Cannes to Monaco, in a Bentley S2 Continental, in the late 1960s.

Yesterday I had more turkey left over than I do today, and after tonight, it'll just be a fond memory.

What the hell? I answered it right on the 20th. http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/messenger/112575/?tab=comments#comment-561958

Which goes a long way to explain the commonly bloated ranks of do-nothing middle management. On the other hand, productivity drives lots of businesses. Lawyers bill hourly, and associates are judged on how effective they are at generating billables. Doctors in their own practices bill for services performed on an individual basis, as do hospitals. Competent architectural and engineering firms rarely tolerate deadwood. My own old engineering-consulting and product-prototyping company billed by the hour, as our "consulting" work evolved primarily into patent research for law firms who hadn't the technical expertise on-staff to get it right the first time...and they had no problem with me billing for hours actually burned. I paid my people based on hours they worked and results, as having done a fair bit of technical research and writing myself, I pretty well knew when a timesheet was being padded. We never did product development or prototyping to contract or bid; we billed for hours burned, and made it clear up front there was simply no way to know what it would take to do something that had never been done (exactly) before...and my people on that work were paid an industry-leading rate per hour in the shop. Again, as I'd done similar work, I had a good idea of what one element of a project should take, and slackers were shown the door. Of course, I was almost always on-site, and had my fingers in every pie, so I knew who was doing what, when, and why. But a company where the upper management isn't actively involved (and competent) in the daily operations isn't much of a company in my opinion, tends to lard-up in the middle with people who do more "delegating" than actual work, and is, unfortunately, more the rule now than the exception.

Of course, anyone with a modicum of internet knowledge, common sense, and a little healthy distrust (and who pays attention to details) can easily spot a spoofed address. But of course, I'm also aware those qualifications weed out most everyone.

Stellar work, as always from you.

"Up" is a relative concept.

Merry Christmas

Care when dealing with small things is akin to "the devil's in the details".

"Loner" is often used as a pejorative.

Greece has never had much of a native car industry, with Namco making trucks and Jeep-like vehicles using bought-in mechanical components, and MAVA building thinly disguised Renaults; recently the Keraboss Super K, a limited-production off-road vehicle, has been announced as "the first car manufactured entirely in Greece" (though there have been a few interesting microcars produced over the years).

Also Sprach Zarathustra by Richard Strauss was used as a major theme in 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Hmmmm...I've almost always worked in businesses...including the ones I've owned...where an individual's pay was based almost totally on his productivity, and I still do. No billable hours, no money, no exceptions, no excuses. That kinda tends to weed out the slackers and the incompetent (like the guys who can't diagnose, or have to do a job several times to get it reasonably right) pretty effectively.

Room lighting can have profound effects on mood and productivity.

Recipe-following is apparently, for some, beyond the ken.

I'm sure most of you know enough to read the sender line and not respond to this stuff...but just in case you don't, another round has started up, trying to get people panicked who're buying Christmas gifts online. It's an attempt to steal your personal and account info. DON'T FALL FOR IT The logo looks legit, and the email starts off: ?? ?????? ? ????????? ???? ?? ???? ??????? ??? ?? ? ??????? ?????. ??? ?? ? ??????? ???? ???? ???? , ?? ???? ???? ?????? ?? ?????? ???? ????. ?? ???????? ???? ???????, ??? ??? ????? ?????? ????? ??? ??????? ???? ???????? ???????????? ?? ????? ???? ?? ?? ???? ???????.