>I feel sorry for people like this.< Hey thanks, I appreciate your sympathy. I'd have never gotten to where I am without help from people like you. >Someone who can call a complete stranger these horrible things is not someone I would like to associate myself with.< I'll admit, my communication skills have been developed to impart information in a logical, concise and accurate way and sometimes tact and discreetness fall victim to such a mindset but I see no "horrible things". I'll try to do better. Then again, I'm here to help, not to make pals. Judging by the requests I get off list people seem to know which is more important. >This Checksix guy obviously has problems in life and his > attitude on the list shows that. I'm sure in person he is not the > most pleasant person to be around.< Of course. Those here who know me better will tell you just how many problems I have and how bad a guy I really am. >If he acts this way on the forum to complete strangers, imagine how he is in person.< Yes, just imagine! ;) > My name is Erik Geerdink, I live in Holland Michigan.< Hello Erik, thats a great last name you have there. Btw, have you ever been a victim of identiy theft? > How could I laugh at a near perfect stranger who drives all the > way up to my house in Maryland from the Carolinas to help me shoe- horn my transmission in, in the dark and rain without proper tools?< Never said he wasn't a nice guy, he seems very willing to help. But disseminating inaccurate information does harm to those who want the facts. It's nice he helped you with your car. If he continues maybe someday it'll run just like his. > It's your car, if you want to slap a carb on it, I'm not going to > say boo and the -rest- of us shouldn't either. Same as smashing one at an air show. I think it's a waste but I'm not going to tell anyone not to do it.< I completely agree. It's his car and he can do as he wishes, it wasn't my intent to say he couldn't. He can put stone Flintstone wheels on it and push it with his feet if he likes. Come to think of it, he'd probably see that as progress. > This guy just runs around in the park with a sharp stick popping everyone's bubble. You'd be astonished at how blunt my stick is.< >Forget him.< Wise advice indeed! ;) >Because it allows you to fly upside down. Know a little about > aviation history too...< Very little it seems. You're wrong, the vast majority of injected aircraft are not certified to "fly uspide down". (The correct term is inverted.) I was addressing the reliability issues of FI in aircraft use, not it's ability to operate inverted. Does your knowledge of aviation history also tell you what happens to the oil in such a flight attitude? Does FI take care of that too? >Hmm, YOU'RE calling ME a "grumpy old man?" THAT'S funny. BTW: I'm 38.< 38?? My apologies, I had no idea. Now that I better understand the situation I realize any further attempts to change your mind would be absolutely futile. > Re: modern cars -- has anyone ever noticed how many old domestic > cars are still tooling up & down America's byways vs Europe? Has > anyone ever priced parts for those cars vs new models?<< Maybe in the South where such cars reign supreme. (It's often joked how this region of the country is stuck in time.) In the rest of the US you'll see more older European or Japanese cars than dosmestic. Dukes of Hazard efforts not withstanding, those cars last far longer than domestics...and for good reasons. >Forward progression of time does not automatically equal "progress."< It does in technology. Everything else is a matter of opinion or taste, such as how a car's styling appeals. Yes, parts are more expensive because the technology (materials, engineering talent and manufacturing methods involved) are more expensive. If you don't think the cost of doing business (salaries, materials, quality control, etc) has changed in 20 years then you *are* stuck in the past. The Delorean failed because people didn't want it and it would fail miserably if marketed today for the same reason. Today's value of used ones reflects that. Try to sell your old domestic cars and see what they'll bring. My point is you're in a minority, most people don't feel as you do. >IMHO we've entered age of the disposable automobile. People get the good out of them then crush them to be made into something even uglier (poor designers have lost all their T squares.< T squares? Thank God those days are gone. Ever heard of Cad/Cam? The average Honda or Toyota will outlast practically anything on the road. If you think older automotive technology is better than new you clearly don't understand the new. >Am totally underwhelmed by extensive use of plastic (Sunday am going to junk yard with fellow from church to find METAL window cranks to replace his plastic ones.< Plastic? There is no such thing, the term refers to a material's properties. For chemical inertness, strength to weight ratio, corrosion resistance, and manufacturing ease composites and polymers are *far* superiour to metals in almost every case. A resistance to their acceptance is a classic sign of old fashioned thinking. > Now if you'll excuse me I have to go put finishing touches on my little silver car for SEDOC. That's right -- ANOTHER 1,000 mile > trip or #5939. Since I don't know what I'm doing, perhaps you'll > tell me where put wrench...< Don't put it near that bed of silicone you used to seal the intake, it might get stuck. 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