i hate talking cars/trucks with people sometimes
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i hate talking cars/trucks with people sometimes
you know, you can know the **** like the back of your hand and someone will still argue with you about it. i had my wifes friend tell my i was confused as to what awd and 4 wheel drive is. we were speaking of the ss tb that is soon to come out. my wife wants one. anyway, her friend said i was wrong about awd being all the time. and that is what 4 wheel drive is. i just walked away laughing and said, well, if awd is what 4 wheel drive is then whats your husbands z71? no reply. i think she realized she was busted. but anyway, some people leave me dumbfounded.
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Originally Posted by goshawk23
you know, you can know the **** like the back of your hand and someone will still argue with you about it. i had my wifes friend tell my i was confused as to what awd and 4 wheel drive is. we were speaking of the ss tb that is soon to come out. my wife wants one. anyway, her friend said i was wrong about awd being all the time. and that is what 4 wheel drive is. i just walked away laughing and said, well, if awd is what 4 wheel drive is then whats your husbands z71? no reply. i think she realized she was busted. but anyway, some people leave me dumbfounded.
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people at school will start talking cars this cars that. i just have to walk away most of the time. i don't want to be the know it all and prove everyone wrong. then again, i might have been that way too when i was 18 to 20 years old. now close to 30 i have wisened up a bit. don't talk **** about something you don't know of, and don't talk it to a person who has what you are talking about.
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Same here...
My G/F's dad thinks he knows everything about cars/trucks. Don't get me wrong he knows his 1960-1980 carburated crap. Here is some of things he has argued with me about, this is what he has told me:
-my truck couldn't have come with roller rockers and hydraulic lifters
-when you change that cam, you need a tuned intake manifold and bigger carb, oh that's right, your fuel-injected, you still need a different manifold.
-That 1998 Ford Explorere has got a 351
-His son and him think that a regular pontiac grand prix has between 250-275hp
Just a bunch of stupid **** that burns me, because if I tell them otherwise nicely, my g/f acts like I'm a know-it-all *******! "They don't know everything like you do."
Then my real good buddy thinks he can put a T88 turbo on his stock ranger3.0, run 20lbs of boost and run 9's. I told him various reasons why that wouldn't work, traction being one of them. He said, I could just put all-wheel drive on it.
Sorry to ramble on, just sharing some of my experience. You aren't alone!
My G/F's dad thinks he knows everything about cars/trucks. Don't get me wrong he knows his 1960-1980 carburated crap. Here is some of things he has argued with me about, this is what he has told me:
-my truck couldn't have come with roller rockers and hydraulic lifters
-when you change that cam, you need a tuned intake manifold and bigger carb, oh that's right, your fuel-injected, you still need a different manifold.
-That 1998 Ford Explorere has got a 351
-His son and him think that a regular pontiac grand prix has between 250-275hp
Just a bunch of stupid **** that burns me, because if I tell them otherwise nicely, my g/f acts like I'm a know-it-all *******! "They don't know everything like you do."
Then my real good buddy thinks he can put a T88 turbo on his stock ranger3.0, run 20lbs of boost and run 9's. I told him various reasons why that wouldn't work, traction being one of them. He said, I could just put all-wheel drive on it.
Sorry to ramble on, just sharing some of my experience. You aren't alone!
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I was talking with this one kid who has a WS6. I told him that my truck had a 3.42 rearend and he said that that was really high gearing, I have 263 (or something like that). If that was true, then his would be MUCH higher geared than mine. Anyway, he said that he even had a badge that said that was the gears and that he knew almost everthing there is to know about F-bodys. I guest that's why he put some 20s on and said he can tell they made it faster.
Later on, I realized what he was talking about, final drive ratio. Luckily he had a fine *** sister that I was trying to hook up with or I would have had to slap some sense into him.
Later on, I realized what he was talking about, final drive ratio. Luckily he had a fine *** sister that I was trying to hook up with or I would have had to slap some sense into him.
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I work at a perfromance shop in Baton Rouge and customers constantly come in looking for a "chip" for their 99+ GM trucks. I tell them that they are really looking for a programmer. After totally confusing them about how a programmer works, they insist on wanting one. I proceed to ask what size engine is in their truck...and here is the common repsonses i get...
1) "It has the 350, ya know, the same motor I had in my 95 Z71"
2) "Oh it has the small v8" I respond, "the 4.8L?" "no its the 305"
I try to inform them but being as how I am younger than them (I'm only 20) they just take what I say with a grain of salt.
I cant believe guys are paying $20+ grand for a new truck and have idea about whats under the hood.
1) "It has the 350, ya know, the same motor I had in my 95 Z71"
2) "Oh it has the small v8" I respond, "the 4.8L?" "no its the 305"
I try to inform them but being as how I am younger than them (I'm only 20) they just take what I say with a grain of salt.
I cant believe guys are paying $20+ grand for a new truck and have idea about whats under the hood.