Ace-Garageguy

Feet without OJ are like shoelaces without Anita Bryant.

Magic Carpet Ride still works for me...

Love this build. I have a full-scale 450SL theft-recovery that's too far gone to make a straight restoration really feasible, so it's slated to get a supercharged 351C Ford I have lying around from a long-ago project. Oddball Merc hot-rods are cool.

Found him, finally. PM'd

Subject yourself to daily doses of pain and starvation if you want to dislike your lot in life even more than you already do.

Forum rules seek to eliminate political arguments that are usually pointless at best, and downright rude and hateful at worst.

Yeah man...that engine bay is pretty.

For all the Yugo bashing that goes on, it's really not that bad a car for the most part. Kinda like the Corvair and Pinto and Fiats in the US, it's become popular to rag on them without much first-hand knowledge to back it up. The Fiat the Yugo is derived from is actually a very good little car, but being small and having a much more highly stressed engine than the big loafing American engines people here were used to, they required more regular but relatively minor maintenance than they usually got...and the lack of knowledgeable people to work on them led to their supposed unreliability. Fiat 128 and Yugo cam belts, for instance, required replacement at around 25,000 mile intervals IIRC, but unlike something like a PT cruiser or a Neon, which last around 100,000 miles but are a nightmare to change, the Fiat / Yugo cam belts can be done in a matter of minutes...because they were designed to be easily serviced. The only basic flaw with the Yugo I can recall is that a batch of crankshafts were made of the wrong material, and failed very early. Other than that, they were just a cheap car made inexpensively, and anyone expecting Rolls-like quality simply isn't living in reality.

Works fine...

Dog lovers with chihuahuas should be careful of cat lovers with pumas.

All they have to do is use the email address they provided when they signed up and the existing password.

End unfair appropriation of gravity so that everybody weighs the same !!!!

Toes to toes with your Bose in it means something but I fergit just zactly what, though it might be about speakers...or sneakers.

Here's more mix-and match info on hot flatheads, just to confuse you thoroughly...

Home is where the hard-hat hangs.

Whole lotta stuff out there if you know what you want, even Ardun heads in the Revell '50 Ford pickup (but be aware the earliest versions have incorrect exhaust manifolds)... ...and if you want really wild, Replicas and Miniatures of Maryland has the most exquisite little S.C.o.T. blower for a flathead you'll ever see. EDIT: Some of the 3D / resin Ardun engines have only 3 exhaust ports and primary header pipes, which is the same mistake the early Revell Ardun engine had. A correct Ardun has FOUR exhaust ports on each head, naturally having FOUR exhaust primaries as well. EDIT 2: A S.C.o.T. blower is pretty much the ultimate engine jewelry for any hot flathead, whether flat-headed or Ardun-headed.

Probably the only thing I'd ever buy from TEMU.

Ah yes...that's pretty funny.

For airbrushing, model-builder extraordinaire Donn Yost recommended thinning Testors bottle enamels with cheap lacquer thinner. He's no longer with us, but his website still seems to offer his 90 minute DVD on painting model cars. http://oldmansmodels.com/id76.html His typical results would tend to prove he was right...

Block people whose ideas you disagree with, even if you know absolutely nothing about the topic you are heavily opinionated on, to maintain the safety of your own beliefs inside the echo-chamber you choose to inhabit.

Corndogs like guacamole and salsa and melted cheese dips too.

Just out of curiosity, what is y'all's thinking on the micro-cracking on the surface of those rotors?

C'mon man. Somebody else'll do it. What's your problem?

Yup, yup, yup. Like it a lot.

In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, honey...