It seems one of these threads pops up once a month around here.
Do yourself a favor and walk away from the Mustang magazines, or really any of the brand specific mags, period. If you want tech that wasn't written by someone with an 8th grade reading level, go for something like Hot Rod, Popular Hot Rodding, Car Craft, etc. Any of the brand specific or new car magazines are written by journalists, not necessarily high level car guys, and are highly motivated by sponsorship and trendy fads.
I remember one of the final straws for me was reading an article in a Mustang magazine where the author admitted that he thought "degreeing a cam" was just lining up the dots on the timing set. Someone with that level of tech knowledge should be making Starbucks runs for the REAL writers, not writing engine build articles themselves.
My cam is installed straight up, but then it has advance/retard ground into it already (not sure which actually). Just sayin
dgollem hits the nail on the head for me, though. Every time you read about a feature car it goes something like this...
John Smith bought this 91 LX from some old lady, and decided after six months he didn't have enough power. So, he shipped the car off to such and such engine builders to build and install a 347/393/408 take your pick here. Then, after he blew up that combo he decided to upgrade to a 408/427/460 and also paid someone else to install a blower/turbo and tune the car.
After that, the car went to the suspension shop where the owner dropped another 8K for some other people to work on his car. After all this work, John finally decided to do some body modifications and dropped it off at yet another shop for some more friendly people to do more work to his car. John did pick out the custom color that was from a Porsche though.
John is so proud of his car because it runs 8's in the quarter mile and wins at all the shows. John doesn't own a screwdriver. The end.
last windsor tech article i read was a 427'' stroker build, it made like 550 hp, and peaked at like 5500 rpm.... I just laughed and put the magazine down. With current technology and resources, there is no excuse to put that crap in print. If you put those kind of numbers up on hardcore5.o or yellowbullet, you would be laughed off the site. Then you have hot rod mag, ill never forget when i read the big bang theory article. No agendas in that one, no pushing parts that dont match. Just a good old fashioned group of gear heads pushing the limits of junk. It made me feel like a kid reading that, it was exciting.
Kind of like those goofballs on HorsePower TV that throw $10 grand into a motor and it runs like crap. I love how they always say, "while we are at it we replaced the following ( another 5 grand in unrelated parts) I remember they built a fox body a few years back and dumped like 20 grand into it and it ran like 12's before breaking down.
dgollem hits the nail on the head for me, though. Every time you read about a feature car it goes something like this...
John Smith bought this 91 LX from some old lady, and decided after six months he didn't have enough power. So, he shipped the car off to such and such engine builders to build and install a 347/393/408 take your pick here. Then, after he blew up that combo he decided to upgrade to a 408/427/460 and also paid someone else to install a blower/turbo and tune the car.
After that, the car went to the suspension shop where the owner dropped another 8K for some other people to work on his car. After all this work, John finally decided to do some body modifications and dropped it off at yet another shop for some more friendly people to do more work to his car. John did pick out the custom color that was from a Porsche though.
John is so proud of his car because it runs 8's in the quarter mile and wins at all the shows. John doesn't own a screwdriver. The end.
Meh,...he laughs a little too much for me. Everything he says he ends w/ his dorky yuk. I do give him credit for his skill and diverse interests though. And the Cougar,& the 40 Willys military truck are soo cool...Stacey David FTW.
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