Ace-Garageguy

Yeah, I could see that. It kinda has a Jimmy Durante thing going on...

I posted the top two pix to illustrate long stacks on smallblock manifolds. I posted the last pic to illustrate staggered stacks on anything. EFI and "streetable" or not, stack length has an effect on the torque curve, because it effects when the reflected pressure wave hits the intake valve at a particular RPM (the "organ pipe" principle). It's all in the engineering books for anyone to see (and I'll be happy to post the equations if anybody is interested ). Some EFI-equipped production cars have been built with manifold runners that change length with engine RPM, to broaden and flatten the torque curve too. With direct-port EFI, a long runner has exactly the same effect (as far as the air is concerned) as a long stack. There are also some production EFI engines out there with staggered length port runners. But tuning on a dyno and then actually flogging the thing is the only way to be absolutely certain of exactly how well any combination of anything works on a particular car. I've seen staggered stacks on 4 cylinder road racing cars and smallblock Ford engines, among others. And...staggered stacks on a little bitty motorcycle engine. They work the same way. \ And then there's this guy...

That's all well and good...but there's no link to a "register" page, and if you click on "upload photos" you get taken to a page that requires your email AND your servimg site password. See, I tried all of that BEFORE I asked the question.

1) It depends entirely on how you set the car up, and 2) These ain't street setups...and they ARE smallblock manifolds. Another trick is to stagger the length of the stacks to broaden the torque curve...

So...with a free forum, and free image hosting, I have to wonder where their income stream is to be able to pay for servers, power to run them, and IT guys to keep it all working. And how long before they implode if they're overwhelmed by legions of freeloaders jumping ship from Peebucket?

What forum? This is the part I find incomprehensible and circular. They keep saying "from your forum" and I'm too stupid to understand WHAT forum they're talking about. Do you have to set up a Forumotion forum to be able to use the service? Like I said...I'm stupid.

I've been PAYING to use PeeBucket for years. I never EXPECTED a free lunch. If you had ever experienced the level or poor functionality of the FREE PeeBucket, with ads screaming at you to buy useless unwanted BS and slowing the upload time to days, you might understand WHY people run adblockers. BUT...I figured if I was getting decent functionality, I could certainly pay something for it...and would have HAPPILY paid 2 or three times as much as my current plan. But no, the SOBs just locked up billions of images. I can see PeeBucket getting rid of millions of freeloaders. I just have NO understanding of the WAY THEY WENT ABOUT IT.

If you can figure out how to resister an account, please be so kind as to let us all know how too...in comprehensible English if at all possible. I've found something that "answers" the question, but it seems to be very circular and doesn't give noobs any real specifics...or maybe I'm just stupid.

I almost don't care if it's a great kit or just so-so. I WANT several. There's just no other styrene source for that body, or anything even close enough. FIRST thing I want to do is graft on a chopped fastback from the old AMT Chebby, kinda like zo... (Steve Stanford design)

I have a 1T backup drive as well. It only runs once a week, and if I inadvertently delete something I need, the image it forms of the machine when it runs will mirror the deleted version, and the file will be lost. It's a VERY good idea to have photos and other critical files stored on separate removable media, and that's something I should be much more diligent about. Thanks for the reminder. Redundancy is good...especially when it comes to data storage.

I'd have an easier time understanding your point if you would elaborate on your definition of "periphially engaged". Far as being told "something or someone is going to kill us (or at least take all that we have) at any given moment" goes, only a few years prior to my birth, the first atomic weapons had been used in anger. The world was a little jittery then, and for good reason. School kids were taught the "duck and cover move" (not that it would do much good) and every time a big plane flew over, a lot of people looked up in fear. Some people used THAT as their justification to screw unto others as fast as you can, but it was far from the seemingly universal standard-operating-procedure it has become. Today, the only real threat any individual faces is that some sociopath, hiding behind a poorly-reasoned religious or ethnic grievance, may open up on a room or street full of innocent bystanders. It's not quite the same thing as an ever-present threat of global thermonuclear holocaust. And I do get so very tired of excuses and justifications for everything these days, no matter how morally reprehensible.

Long stacks increase bottom-end torque. A smaller displacement engine can dramatically benefit from long injector stacks, especially if it's hooked to an automatic gearbox.

They do not display properly in the Windows photo viewer (Windows7 PICTURES LIBRARY) but appear to display properly when uploaded here. The odd image compression in "Pictures Library" makes it difficult to identify exactly what image you want prior to uploading here. The "copy image" function is also disabled, and if you try to save an image to your own drive as a jpeg, it gets the odd vertical compression too. THIS IS NEW. THE PBUCKET SITE DIDN'T USED TO WORK THAT WAY. Obviously, some real effort went into trying to FORCE less computer literate folks, or those who don't have their own backup files, to pay the ransom. BE CAREFUL IF YOU DECIDE TO DELETE THE VERTICALLY COMPRESSED PHOTOS DOWNLOADED FROM PHOTOBUCKET... EVEN IF YOU HAVE BACKUPS ELSEWHERE ON YOUR DRIVE. The files you download from PB are still labeled with the file number that your camera or image processing program assigned to them when they were shot, most likely. If you look at them in your computer's photo viewer, see they're oddly distorted, so decide to delete them because you have backups elsewhere on your drive, your computer MAY NOT REALIZE YOU ONLY WANT TO DELETE THE DOWNLOADED FILES. It MAY delete EVERY file with that file number, and your other backups will be gone too.

YOU ALL BETTER CHECK YOUR DOWNLOADS FROM PHOTOBUCKET, IF YOU REMOVE YOUR FILES FROM THAT POS PLACE. I JUST DID A TEST DOWNLOAD OF ONE ALBUM TO BEGIN RELOADING ONTO THIS SITE, AND THE PHOTOS ARE SQUASHED WHEN YOU OPEN THEM. UNUSABLE.

YOU ALL BETTER CHECK YOUR DOWNLOADS FROM PHOTOBUCKET, IF YOU REMOVE YOUR FILES FROM THAT POS PLACE. I JUST DID A TEST DOWNLOAD OF ONE ALBUM TO BEGIN RELOADING ONTO THIS SITE, AND THE PHOTOS ARE SQUASHED WHEN YOU OPEN THEM. UNUSABLE. They do not display properly in the Windows photo viewer (Windows7 PICTURES LIBRARY) but appear to display properly when uploaded here. The odd image compression in "Pictures Library" makes it difficult to identify exactly what image you want prior to uploading here.

YOU ALL BETTER CHECK YOUR DOWNLOADS FROM PHOTOBUCKET, IF YOU REMOVE YOUR FILES FROM THAT POS PLACE. I JUST DID A TEST DOWNLOAD OF ONE ALBUM TO BEGIN RELOADING ONTO THIS SITE, AND THE PHOTOS ARE SQUASHED WHEN YOU OPEN THEM. UNUSABLE. They do not display properly in the Windows photo viewer (Windows7 PICTURES LIBRARY) but appear to display properly when uploaded here. The odd image compression in "Pictures Library" makes it difficult to identify exactly what image you want prior to uploading here.

PostImage fine print...same as PhotoBucket By uploading a file or other content or by making a comment, you represent and warrant to us that (1) doing so does not violate or infringe anyone else's rights; and (2) you created the file or other content you are uploading, or otherwise have sufficient intellectual property rights to upload the material consistent with these terms. With regard to any file or content you upload to the public portions of our site, you grant PostImage a non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable worldwide license (with sublicense and assignment rights) to use, to display online and in any present or future media, to create derivative works of, to allow downloads of, and/or distribute any such file or content, including embedded (hotlinked) into third-party websites otherwise not affiliated with PostImage.

Those of you recommending and fleeing to Imgur might just want to read the fine print... Also, don't use Imgur to host image libraries you link to from elsewhere, content for your website, advertising, avatars, or anything else that turns us into your content delivery network. If you do – and we will be the judge – or if you do anything illegal, in addition to any other legal rights we may have, we will ban you along with the site you're hotlinking from, delete all your images, report you to the authorities if necessary, and prevent you from viewing any images hosted on Imgur.com. We mean it. Quote Edit

Those of you recommending and fleeing to Imgur might just want to read the fine print... Also, don't use Imgur to host image libraries you link to from elsewhere, content for your website, advertising, avatars, or anything else that turns us into your content delivery network. If you do – and we will be the judge – or if you do anything illegal, in addition to any other legal rights we may have, we will ban you along with the site you're hotlinking from, delete all your images, report you to the authorities if necessary, and prevent you from viewing any images hosted on Imgur.com. We mean it.

Today's predominantly short-sighted and downright stupid business practices (see the PhotoBucket fiasco for clear evidence of this on a global scale) have no remaining sense of appreciation for customer loyalty, desire to provide QUALITY goods or services, or anything even remotely resembling ethics, for the most part. Make a fast buck today, screw tomorrow. Morons, greedy morons, everywhere.

You're a class act. Thanks.

What we COULD do would be to start a new thread, title it "REPOST OF HARRY'S (whatever subject)" and copy / paste his text, inserting the photos in the right places. Yeah, a hell of a lot of work, but possible.

Find the REAL size. Divide by 24. That's as accurate as humanly possible. For example, fuel lines are often 1/2 inch, which is .5. Divide by 24. .5 divided by 24 = .0208 So, .020" wire would look right for 1/2 inch fuel line in 1/24 scale. Brake line is usually 1/4 or 5/16. Heater hoses are 5/8, 3/4 and 1 inch. Radiator hoses are around 2 inches. Elementary school fractions and arithmetic.

I just looked and saw that all of Harry's fantastic Photoshop tutorial images are gone too, naturally. And there's a little snag with doing the right-click-open-in-a-new-tab thing. P-bucket won't display the photo if you have an adblocker enabled, and if you disable it, you're probably going to have to sit through a bunch of useless screaming marketing drivel just to post one photo.