OK... this baffles me...
Originally Posted by
av8tor1977
Ha! Ok, ok.
You are the greatest engine guy ever. Your tuning acumen and engine expertise is amazing and could never be really appreciated by mere mortals. You are so "with it", up to date" and on top of things. So innovative! Just how do you do it? Amazing! Wow! I humbly defer to your obvious grand wisdom and superiority.
Just really seemed like you needed that...
;~)
Av8tor
Really? No I am not, but it sure sounds like you feel challenged in your assumption that YOU are? Look, YOU are the one opening a thread titled "remember me?"... Not me. That suggests a need for validation on your part. Not mine.
You are the one claiming to be that grand tuner, ("
I have been involved with building and tuning race engines of all types, two stroke and four stroke, as recently as this morning, and on a continuing basis" is your statement, not mine). I never claimed to be a tuner (building race engines or souping up existing ones), please show where I did.
You asked a simple question: "is anyone still doing conversions?", and received a simple answer:
Originally Posted by
1967brutus
Not in the sense of converting chainsaw or weedwhacker engines to aeronautical engines...
But converting glow engines into gassers seems to gain ground.
So yes, converting engines seems to be very much alive, just in a different way than before.
You COULD have left it at that, no? Because I sure as hell was going to... I could see this escalation coming from a mile away and the lack of detail in that post was deliberate.
Post 9 and 10 was just a bit of banter between two engine enthousiasts you telling what you did and why you no longer pursued that, me giving some more detailed insight in what I was up to these days, AGAIN clearly indicating that there was a significant difference between what you did previously, and what I am still doing to date. You converted weedwhackers, I convert "slimers". If it wasn't allready clear from post 8, it sure should be clear after post 10.
AGAIN you COULD have decided to leave it at that... But you didn't.
Along came post 11... You basically started telling me how glow-to-gas conversions should be done (your way, the old way), and why such conversions are in your opinion problematic. Although worded different, what it came down to was, they basically are not worth it... What did I write post 10 for, then? Did you even read it? If you did read post 10, you would KNOW your post 11 was BS, and if you didn't bother to read post 10, then why then bother to respond at all? Would be a bit silly, wouldn't it?
I did not start spouting incorrect facts. You did. All I did was point out that those facts were wrong, and proven to be wrong allready many years ago.
I tried to do that as respectful as possible in post 12, but apparently the reality of your knowledge being obsolete was more than you could handle.
If you cannot handle being proven wrong,that's on you, not me. If that causes you to attack my accumen, please keep in mind I never attacked yours.
I for me, I simply refuse to let incorrect information stand...
Let's leave it at that...
And Kamlooper, yeah, I am usually a decent guy to be around both on and off the field...
I might get a bit edgy though, when a polite discussion, NOT by my doing, derails into someone trying to sell me BS and then, when I/m not buying that BS, starts projecting his own shortcomings on me...