| Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,792 | Back in the early 1970s one of our competitors on the California dirt tracks ran nothing but 302 engines. Back then we called them "301s"- - - -283s bored out to 4". Chevy cheated half a cubic inch and called a 301.44 cubic inch engine a "302". Those rebored 283s had cylinder walls so thin they blew out occasionally- - - - -.125" oversize!
"It is better to be silent and be thought a fool than to speak and eliminate all doubt!" - Abraham Lincoln Cringe and wail in fear, Eloi- - - - -we Morlocks are on the hunt! There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. - Ernest Hemingway Love your enemies and drive 'em nuts!
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