That's why I replace mine with a Holley 600cfm. Very simple to dial-in.

 

I like the V8s of the 60 to80 years after that they went crazy with the compression and HP and you had to have all the technology to go into reprogramming them for more HP, They took the fun out of tuning them by what you know not whatyou did with a computer. I am old fashion if you can't do it with knowledge of your own, It just notany fun doing with a computer telling you how much to turn this or that. Trial and error was good times at the drags more so then it is now. You got to have all this special equipment even to test what is wrong with one now for all the chips and sensor on them. I guess if we don't go forwardwe will never see what the future is all about. We keep buying and and our pockets gets thinner.Life in the 21st century

 

i don't think i share the appreciation of a v8 you guys do. yeah,i belong to the computer generation. to me, fun in tuning is taking a tuning program and keep tinkering with the car until you get it right. i understand where you guys come from, but thats how the next generation is going to be. who knows, maybe in 50 years i'll be on a forum somewhere yapping about the "good 'ol days" when all you ahd to do was buy a couple of hundred dollar program and put it on your laptop, and keep trying out different tricks.

but back to the point, i appreciate V8's for the power they produce and the beautiful drone of the pipes that usually come out of them. man, i got to stay off this forum. everytime i come look at this06-07 V8 forumi wish i had bought that trans am....

 

Yeap cowboy, I could say that my generation is at the tail end of the industrial era which sprouted mechanical genious's.

Your gen is catching the wave of the technological revolution. I'm just glad I was around to see both.

For me at least, sitting in front of a lab top dialing in a 'chip' for maximum 'advancement' or retardation doesn't compare to turning a distributor by the sound of your ear for the same.

Taking that car and punching it until you hear detonation, stopping, and advancing 'just a little bit more' and 'a little bit more' and even 'a little bit more' until the ping is just gone under WOT and now you could take on the world.

Who needs a freaking timing light anyways.

Tweeking the air and fuel mixtures until you get that perfect odor of gas and air burning perfectly. Yumm, yumm.

With a chip, programmer, and laptop, almost anyone could do it who can read a book in English.

The former was truly a mechanical art form.

 

from mechanical art to electronic art... atleast we can respect each other

 

"I'm just glad I was around to see both." Well said, Dave, and ditto. Factory hotrods today are undoubtedly safer and more efficient than they were in the "day", but somehow they just don't seem to have the same fun factor...and I can't quite put my finger on why that is. Maybe, as you alluded to, it's because the personal "touch" and skillhas been taken out of the equation? Today you buy a tuner, plug it in, punch a few buttons and you're done. Not so in the old days, as you remember so well.

 

And, might I add, it's a shame that Cowboy and others of his generation missed out on the cars of the 60's and early 70's when they were new.Of course our fathers thought it was a shame that we didn't experience the 30's and 40's, so I guess it's a generation thing. Damn, Dave...I don't know about you, but I really don't feel old. Nevertheless, I guess we are. [&o]

 

"Dave is so old he remembers hwne working on a car mean't actually having to break out your tools and get dirty"

I really wish I could have been tehre with you guys back in teh day, I love muscle cars. I don't care so much for the 50's cars, although they are qutie nice. I like cars from about 63 or so on up to about 72. I love car shows and checking out those old rides, most of the times wishing I had a '68 Mustang fastback, 390... one of my favorite muscle cars of all time, that along with the '70 Chevelle, 63 split window corvettes, and the '67 GTO.

Although I think if I could live in any era I wanted, I would like to live in the Post WWI era to the Great Depression (though definitly not through the depression). Here are some reasons....

"Got a little headache, take a shot of whisky, that'll cure ya."
"Got a long road trip ahead but don't think you can make it thru the night, have ajoint, it'lll get ya through"
"Have a little Coca~Cola man, cocaine can't do but so much to ya...."

Sounds like a fun time...

 

LOL at this whole thread. Start a V8 thread and I am all over it.

Us poor ol' folk in E.L.A. could never afford mechanics so we humped it.

You learn alot under demanding conditions.

When I broke my leg from a motorcycle accident in 81, I had no choice but to replace my engine in my blown 67.

Back then, blown meant blown up and not supercharged.

I did it during my 2 weeks off from work for under $400, and on crutches, and with no help and no training and a winch in my garage and a tool box full of 20 year old crescent wrenches.

(I also walked to school 20 miles in the snow uphill both ways every day.)

 

True story up to the snow part.