I thought you'd APPRECIATE that...

hopeful that will change soon

I am hoping things will pick also. I am in the coal industry and the current regulations on coal has cut in to my income a lot. Hopefully the new guy makes it more coal friendly. There are a lot of strip pits shut down for now. I hope things pick up next year.

I can remember 45 years ago learning the hard way and no one had the answers. We would of been in wonderland if something like Moparts was around then or up to the late eighties. Young ones don't know how good they got it now, just go on line and ask questions, amazing! Might be boring to the old guys but not to the guy who needs to know.

One thing is that nobody seems to ever push the envelope. It's the same old regurgitated builds and general opinion is "why mess with something that works". Well that may be the case, but things don't go forward if you don't push it.

Case in point. I have a friend up north with a Pontiac. REAL Pontiac motor with Edelbrock RPM heads and a single 4 cast intake. Its a 550 inch motor in a 3050 pound car on 10.5x 29.5s. The heads are highly worked but it's still a 400cfm head on a good day. The thing makes well north of 1000hp and the car has been in the 7s on motor.

Not many here seem to be willing to push something and when they do, it seems they get berated for stepping "out of the accepted box".

This happens all the time in cam threads, intake threads, whatever. And then when you suggest guys step into the "modern age" you get the barrage of "well, this X has worked for 30 years"

Wade stepped a little out of the box on that B-1 motor and it made 915hp on pump gas with a little over 10.5 compression.......so it can be done, just not many do so

Boring? Nah, the good natured arguments and vast experience and knowledge all wrapped into this online goodness? How could you go wrong? The general Moparts member isn't the richest kid on the block. Stepping out of the box requires a good deal of cash. I hear ya though, I think Al has a pretty good deal going with his Predator, I can't wait to see it run!

Unfortunately most guys these days use the Facebook Mopar pages to discuss everything. I get on there quite a bit but I really like sitting in front of a computer(just bought a new one) and looking at Moparts on a big computer screen. On FB, if someone posts a pic of a Mopar with a cowl hood they get chastised by 50 different people, it really gets old.

I see plenty of posts on here advocating fuel injection and other modern goodies. Hell, if someone brings up trying to run old iron heads the consensus is always not to blow the money on them and just buy aluminum.

I can't say I find it "boring"...Sometimes a few posts are so far over my head I just read and try to keep up...
The fabrication posts I try to follow as much as possible since that's something I can handle and maybe see a better way of building my junk...
I don't "race" and try not to put any input into posts about things I'm not up on...When I get back to tinkering with the Dart and the Duster next spring I'm sure I'll be one of those that asks a stupid question...I've always gotten great help in the past...maybe you have to just bare with a few of us...

OK that sounds EXCITING! How did you do?
By the way Billy not far from Martin MI we got 8" of snow!!!!!
How's that for excitement?

I am installing a crank trigger on my Barracuda, redoing the mandrel drive.
Some maint. stuff and planning for next year.
Yes a heated shop is a must for winter.

Also I was checking here for your latest installment of DW 2016.
Thanks again Billy and nice meeting you and your family at Martin!

I'm so excited I better take a chill pill.

Don

I joined Moparts almost 4 years ago. I don't have many posts, but I'm on here every day. I read and soak up as much information as I can. I contribute if I can to a subject, but rarely have to. There is always someone that knows more. Again, I'll learn from it. I don't need to start a topic either. Search, and it has 99% likely been covered more than once. There are many opinions and one needs to read through some BS (less than other forums), but in the end I can come to my own conclusions. I really appreciate everyone's experience and knowledge on this site. This means you!!! Thanks.

Say what??

I don't do facebook. Want to spice things up? Start another Street Outlaws thread or tease Big John about his new Hellcat purchase that he will make in the near future...

I usually only get on here w/ a computer when I'm at the office. Don't care much for the facebook groups...like Bob said, WAYYY too many close minded stuck in the past boneheads on there to have a decent discussion. Things tend to get personal quick from what I've seen too, so I just don't participate.
There has been a steady decline in forum interest though (not just this one) and I think it's due to facebook. Sad b/c I'd rather see stuff here.

What facebook pages are we talking about?

Lately, there just hasn't been any new projects being posted. Either people are not building new cars, or they are not taking the time to post anything about it. I guess I miss the days there was always a bunch of new cars being built.

I'm a member of a few Facebook pages.
Mean Mopars
A body Mopars
Acceleration Nation
Mopar builders


I try to spice this place up but a home built 7 second turbo mopar gets no respect around here lol
I try'd to show yall what an Indy headed combo will do with a turbo but my posts fail to gain any attention. Now I just help the guys I can and leave the drama to the old guys .

I am new to facebook, but have been on moparts since '99. I can't see how facebook is stealing the thunder of all the message boards. Yes, FB is fast moving and addictive. But there is no conversation. Its' like this: a picture of a car. then the "conversation" starts. "john's car" "66?" "67 dip****" "cooL" "uncle had one" "$$$" "nice" and so on. NO substance.
On Moparts there is a real discussion, people type whole paragraphs. They explain stuff. But it is getting more facbookized with brevity. Let's contribute more, make it more interesting. I'm on board, I'll start posting stuff just for the fun of it like I used to do.

There are so many of them I honestly can't remember. One quick glance through the current topics was enough for me to not worry about returning to them.
The only one I go on anymore is a local Mopar classifieds page.

This is a participation board, if you have boring participants you have a boring board. You may have just insulted everyone posting on here.

Or it could be that you are just board with the things you do.

Or it could be it is boring here.

You made your call, now what is the reason.