I bought a set of. .810 bars from MP a couple weeks ago, supposedly the last pair in the system. Got a quote on them on Wednesday, called to get them the following Monday and MP had raised the price $100. Lucky for me my dealer honored his quoted price.

Bought the MP oil pump primer today. Cost all of $8. 😀

The Ma Mopar/Chrysler Corp we all fondly reminisce about doesn't exist anymore and hasn't for a long time. Face it, we're no different than the Studebaker and Hudson guys.

I ran a NEW set of viper rods and balanced them
and shot peened.. one broke in half.. just a
glorified stock rod.. I wont use anything but a
H beam

You got it... Ma Mopar doesnt exist anymore..
its Fiat and they dont care about the OLD stuff..
I seen it going down hill when I was still working
at CTC.. the race group was dieing rapidally

I work at the Dealership..Fiat screw up every thing they touch..

Jamie... are they selling Fiats at your dealership..
if so they did just what they wanted..they got a bunch
of dealerships for cheap.. and they are still making
money on the Rams and Jeeps

We are the new AMC and Pontiac guys. FIAT is only fleecing the USA for all it can while it can like EVERY top heavy greedy corporation.

Well that depends on what you call a Fiat LOL Dart - new jeep - 200 They are all fiat's with a dodge emblem on them..Junk !

Of which you can still get decent blocks for.

I know, didn't want anyone cutting their wrist, so I left that out lol.

Fiat really did a business move by ditching the grassroots Guy altogether and just wrapped up the entire MP catalog up in one purchase, the Hellcat or the ACR.

I left the Mopar dealer in 2011 and even before I left I could get SS springs cheaper from Mancini then at my dealer with my discounted price. I hardly ever bought anything from my dealer because Mancini or my local speed shop was cheaper. It seems most of the parts we buy for 440's and 340's today are aftermarket most of the time. Heck my mild 440/493 is a 440Source bottom end and Indy EZ heads and Indy dual plane intake with a Holley 850 Carb. Not many of us even low buck guys run the older Mopar iron heads today. Most Mopar muscle cars today roaming the streets and tracks dont use many factory parts other then the block. I guess its only the ones who restore cars to original like the numbers matching guys who use alot of the factory Mopar parts anymore. The fact is the after market makes most of the parts for our cars today that are of better quality since they have 50 years of technology upgrades they build in the aftermarket parts today. I mean how many of you know anyone with a Mopar hotrod that still runs the older factory iron heads ?? Probably not many. Ron

SO TRUE LOL

Many years ago a local now closed speed shop used to sponsor me and I had him order me some Dirrect Connection brush on intake gasket sealer from Ed Hamburger. The owner a Ford guy placed the order and when it came in he looked at it and peeled the label off and it was made by Ford Motor Company. He walked back to a shelf in the shop and showed me 6 cans of it he had sitting on a shelf. He still laughs about that.

This all started long before fiat bought what was chrysler.

Yes it did... when Damn near Chrysler took over
they sent all of the R&D work over to Germany
and that was my job till then.. all I did after
that was fix screw ups.. thats when my job went
down hill... even before that the performance
side was lacking..except for the Nascar group
and look for that went..being we have no parts
for mopar anymore.. it just doesnt bother me
that people turn to the dark side

That blows.

(Investor's hindsight...i should have bought Mega blocks instead of property)

Naaa... that dirt will be worth more in the long run..
I am trying to buy another 40 acres that buts up to my
75 acres but the county(the owners of it) are out of their
minds on the price.. they havent had any offers yet and
its been 4 years since they put it on the market.. I put
in a price and they didnt counter offer or anything

Amen. Well said.