[Cliff R]

"Let's be honest, this board has a lot of toxic elements and not everyone in the Pontiac hobby actually posts here. Nor should posting here be some sort of qualification to sell a Pontiac good.

This thread kind of proves the point. By my count there's only been a couple people post that have actually read the books. The rest are speculative without first hand knowledge and the thread as a whole is now a Bruce Fulper punching bag."

I really wouldn't say a "lot" of toxic elements, but for sure there are some folks who post on here who know little if any more than their Google/search engine skills allow for, and they have never even ported their first Pontiac head, built an engine, or even have a Pontiac powered car that moves under it's own power. I'd also add that their arguments are pretty much meaningless even though they often try to back up their information with "weak" associations with some of the folks that they source the info from.

Don't know exactly how many years I've been posting on here, but one thing is for certain........I do this sort of thing for a living and actually test scores of parts and combinations of parts to see how they work, and post the results. I also stay on topics that I have a LOT of first hand experience with, which tends to keep me out of trouble for the most part.

One of the BEST things that I do here to broaden my knowledge with these things and help folks at the same time is custom tuning. About 10 years ago I opened up a couple of Saturdays a month in the warmer weather to custom tune troubled combinations. I've had hundreds of vehicles brought here and sometimes from great distances. The record to date is 1800 miles one way, but most are within 200 miles or so. I get to see some really nice cars and meet some really nice folks. My success rate for tuning is nearly 100 percent, even if some of the parts involved in the engine combination aren't all that well chosen. So I learn by actually doing this stuff, and try to relay that information as accurately as possible in Public Forum. Even so I often find myself arguing with folks who have less actual experience with these thing than I spent on the crapper this morning. It's just goes with the territory folks, and personally I just put the info up here to help out, whether you use it, or makes copies and use them for toilette paper, or go another direction and get things working well enough for you liking, really doesn't matter in the big scheme of things.

Anyhow, at this point in my learning curve I certainly don't know everything, but do know what doesn't work well, and even better who in this industry potential customers should avoid like a big dose of the COVID 19 virus!......FWIW.......Cliff