[455Grandville]

[QUOTE=SupergasDil]Here's another good one I heard last night at a local cruise.

I took the Ventura down. Someone showed up with a 65, 4 speed, 400 that sounded sweet. Nice cam. So we're talking and he asked if I had ever heard of Rock n Roll Engineering. Need I say more ? So he tells me he went there to get a pushrod guidplate. He said he listened to the biggest line of crap he had ever heard in his life, but had to because he hadn't got the guidplate yet. In the BS'ing Bruce told him that he GUARANTEED the guy would blow up his engine if he didn't trade the #16 heads on the engine for a low compression set that Bruce had. Probably small valve and would for sure need hot tank, new valves, seats, guides, surface, springs, retainers, locks, oh and pull out the press in studs and tap for new screw in's. Don't you agree ? You wouldn't put a used set of heads on a good running engine, Would You ?

Ive machined engines for years, I hate hearing the "looming and dooming" line of BS - Ive seen engines run completely out of oil, and not have a rod knock (no I dont advise it) . My ex girlfriend years ago had a old 302 Granada with a bad wrist pin (after it would heat up it would stop knocking) she drove it through 4 years of college, and another year afterwards & then traded it. Ive seen timing belts break at 50xxx miles and others go 220,xxx + miles. You never know -
First off,how would he know if the engine were to blow up ? Being its a 40 yr old car the engine has most likely been rebuilt,soooo how would he know it doesnt have low compression pistons ? Also, you cant judge the compression without CCing the heads - hell, no one can say every 6X head (for example) had a say, 98 cc's. Hell, at the factory they have to adjust machines, cutter wear, you can have a sloppy operator, etc, so the CC's could be even more , like 105 cc's. How much down in the hole is the pistons ? How thick is the head gasket ?