Recent content by nobodyspecial

My mistake, I must have missed the part where the seller wanted people with no interest in buying the car to shout out that, to them, it was not worth that much. To make anyone who it might be worth that much money feel foolish and not pursue it. The car is worth what someone will buy it for...

Well, if it is not worth 8g's to you, don't buy it. If the seller feels the car is worth that much to him, then that is his business. If, in the future, the car doesn't sell, the price will soften a bit. Let the man conduct his own business until/if he asks for pricing advice.

Your use of the word power is incorrect and could lead to confusion for some readers. Power gets work done, torque is an instantaneous force, but results in no work. You want to use 'torque peak' instead, and it is a generally accepted rule of thumb to have a true stall about 500 RPM under...

A wideband O2 dyno tune on a forced induction engine (with appropriately sized injectors) will run like it did from the factory, probably better. It is a bit more pricey than swapping out jets and adjusting timing, but you will be very impressed with the results.

It means that you will get fewer miles per gallon, in my case, it is an 8% loss in my LT1 (350cid) Caprice, the price might drop a few cents a gallon as it is <currently> pretty heavily subsidized by the Governement. Oh...yeah, almost forgot, it takes more oil energy to produce it than it...

Well, aside from it being easier to cast blame than to come up with real, workable solutions to the complex problems the Country faces, it is apparent to me and other people who actually take a look beyond the media's quick and often incorrect (as the media would rather be first than spend time...

Battery or battery cables. Possible bad ground at the alternator or battery

You are close, but don't quite get it yet. The wrong hands are the people who ignore the law and carry anyway! Gun control laws do not keep guns out of criminal's hands, but out of the law-abiding ones. The more strictly it is regulated, the tougher it is to do it legally will do nothing to...

I see that you are mad at me for disagreeing with your choice of adding acetone to your car. You wouldn't feel that way if you were 100% sure it were safe. You would have produced evidence that it was ok. Instead, you attack me as having no basis for caution instead of admitting that you may...

Laughing, you do know that the same guy wrote both articles referenced in this thread, right? Using an article written by a dude to 'prove' another article the same guy wrote is just plain silly. Now, I see that he sells additives, which makes him less of a crackpot and more of a scam...

well, it is in "moint condition" Not sure what that means, but it sounds impressive. Also about the first thing addressed is the special paint that cannot be duplicated. Don't know about you, but I would hesitate to buy a car with a paint job that I could never repair. Of course, if you...

While the author claims that he put carb parts in a jar for testing (nothing about wiring or other in-tank fuel pump parts), he also writes; "Be consistent where you buy your gasoline because different gasolines vary tremendously. The best gas and the worst gas in your neighborhood will likely...

last I checked, acetone eats plastic, you know, like the wire jackets on your fuel pump wiring. Sounds like a good way to get a short in that wiring. Maybe someone will run a test with the right proportions in a glass jar and dropping a wire in it to see if the concentration is high enough to...

What is to stop someone from driving 700 miles and swap the cluster for another, drive as much as you want and swap it back before 'testing'.

The long chain molecule known as gasoline is the same no matter what the Octane. The various additives can raise the ignition temp point (to keep it from pre-igniting), but a spark plug generates enough heat to fire off any Octane gasoline and once the reaction starts, the heat generated is...