quote Originally posted by crzyone: It's time you start following some of your own advice. Here is a picture YOU posted, the bottom left corner is the easiest to see. Clearly a crush bent exhaust pipe. See how it gets skinny as it goes around the bend? That is what is meant by crush bent. Mandrel bends are the same diameter all the way through the bend. If you don't have a mandrel bender, you deforming a pipe to make it bend. Your exhaust Mandrel bends

The pipes my bender bends are the same pipes Oreif has on his car & he's already proven that between the engine & the wheels the power loss is acceptable.

If you'd like to buy me a mandrel bender then get to it.

Otherwise KMA.

Archie

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quote Originally posted by Archie: It looks like Howdy Dooty Time

How very professional of you. Oh, BTW, it's Howdy Doody.

I've seen a lot of name calling (from both sides), and I think it's pretty pitiful. Why can't someone disagree with someone else and simply state their case without being childish?

quote Originally posted by FieroBobo: I for one am getting of the petty bickering.

You aren't the only one.

quote Originally posted by Unsafe At Any Speed: There's immature **** talking (among some stuff that is valid) that goes on constantly on both sides of this argument.

I agree 100%. Both sides do have some valid criticisms, but they tend to dredge up old stuff and resort to name calling too much.

quote Originally posted by Archie: You know, you better get used to it or stay away from these kinds of threads.

If it stayed in these threads it wouldn't get nearly as annoying.

quote Originally posted by Archie: it's the jab that he lives for.

Hello, Pot, I'd like to introduce you to the Kettle:

quote Originally posted by Archie: It looks like Howdy Dooty Time

quote Originally posted by Mickey_Moose: ...hmmm...that is why it's called "put up or shut up" - if you KNOW your car can beat the other, then you are risking NOTHING. If you are scared to lose the money, then you have doubts that you can win and are admitting that the other car is could actually be faster.

And would you bet $5k that you can run 5 essentially back-to-back passes and beat somebody else in at least 3 of them? Do you KNOW that you won't have a tranny failure? Do you KNOW you won't blow out a tire and put your car into a wall? Do you KNOW you won't have gotten a bad tank of gas and wind up detonating and holing a piston? No, you don't. Ergo even if you are sure your car is faster, there is some element of risk involved.

quote Originally posted by Mickey_Moose: Obvious, you have no experience here, any engine can be built up to produce way more than it puts out in stock trim, be it a SBC or a 6 cylinder, etc. If not, the Lingenfelters, the Shelbys, the Elderbroks, etc would be out of a job. Could it be that some people are happy with the stock hp when they install it?

I don't remember saying that an engine couldn't be built up. Nor do I remember suggesting that the people who own the cars that don't impress me aren't happy with them. They didn't build their cars for me, I simply stated my opinion, "I'm not very impressed with (most of) them." And I stand by that, most of the numbers I've seen I'm not particularly impressed by. There are of course exceptions. Typhoon's car, Troy's car (at the top of page 2), an a few others that I've seen things posted for. And Dave(bmwguru)'s no matter what kind of power it makes, just because I love the look of Webers on a V8.

quote Originally posted by Archie: This is it, everytime some jerk gets called for something stupid he said or did on the Internet, he says "Oh, it's just the Internet who cares" YOU SHOULD CARE !!!!!!!.

But, why should I care that "he" is being an idiot? Even if "he" is being an idiot towards me, why should I care?

Whodeanie... Good luck I think you will probably have a hard time routing 1000 hp worth of exhaust in a Fiero, but I will certainly be impressed when it gets done.

quote Originally posted by animal: Can you effing read?????????????????????

Can you:

quote Originally posted by Cliff Pennock: Multiple Usernames It's not allowed for a single individual to register multiple usernames. Everybody hates sockpuppets and we don't want people to hide behind another username. Usually the system detects when somebody tries to sign up a 2nd (or 3rd or 4th) username, but this system is far from perfect. If I detect someone is using multiple usernames after they have been registered I will delete all usernames used by this individual starting with the oldest and leaving only the most recent (this could mean you loose that username with 10,000+ posts). In some cases I will allow multiple usernames (for instance when more than one individual in a household register to the forum). If it was obvious the new username was only created to get into some heated discussions (or start flamewars), then the user will receive a warning. If after this warning he/she still (tries to) register(s) a new username (with the same intent) an immediate ban will follow.

That's from here, in case you were thinking I'm putting words in someone's mouth.

quote Originally posted by animal: I did not know Shaunbag was taking video. [...] I personally feel like Shaunbag has invaded my privacy [...] I personally consider Shaunbag a wacko and a potential physical threat

1.) It does not matter if you knew, you were in a public location.
2.) You have no reasonable expectation of privacy in a public location. There was a case from Washington a few years ago where someone had a camera on his shoe, and was recording videos up women's skirts. The charges wound up getting dropped because there was no law against it since there was "no reasonable expectation of privacy" in the mall where he did it.
3.) If you really feel this strongly about this, what did the cops say? It's not like he lives out of state and you might have to deal with Federal issues or even extradition.

quote Originally posted by Leafy: Thats Because the dyno results typically suck compared to the Horsepower numbers they claim before they hit the dyno.

I don't think that's it, necessarily. I think it's the excuses that follow, rather than admitting they may have over estimated their engines. Rarely (if ever) have I seen someone say, "I'm pretty disappointed with the results, I'll have to check/tune [insert whatever here]." Usually it's more like, "Those numbers are low because [insert lame excuses here], my engine is really making *** horsepower, no matter what the dyno says."


Good grief, that's a lot of typing. Here's some more.

I think several of these disagreements have initially started because the written word does a very poor job of communicating, compared to the spoken one. You can't type cadence or inflection, so the subtleties of meaning get lost and the reader has to interpret everything based on the literal wording alone. The problems get worse when someone's pride becomes an issue. Nobody likes to admit they were wrong, that they may have said something they shouldn't have, or that they lost their temper. Far too many people take everyone else on the internet too seriously. Personally, I don't care what any of you think. It has no bearing on how I am going to live my life. I am going to work where I want, drive what I want, date who I want and build what I feel like. If any of you don't like it, do better yourself. Live your life the way you feel is best for you, and take pride that you have a better life than me.

EDIT to add a link to info about the Washington issue

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