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Want to be different by installing a Chevy moder in a Dakota??

Kern Dog said:
I concur. Spelling and grammar DO matter. Proper use of the spoken word is important as well.
I know a guy that says stuff like "needs fixed, needs restored" and such. He texts with no capital letters or punctuation. Great guy but that **** just drives me batty.
A guy on Youtube that does a LOT of metal replacement videos on Chargers ALWAYS says VAY-lence instead of Vaaa-lence.
I wish that I could tune out that stuff. I wish that I had the ability that some mothers and dog owners do where they tune out screams and barking. I don't.
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YouTube is 1 word with the T capitalized and no space. Get it right.
 
Exactly! I'm keeping my eye on you.

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moparedtn said:
Awww, cut Chris some slack. The man might be goofy and mispronounce words intentionally for attempted
comedic affect, but he's doing some incredible work, too. :)
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I do respect his work and don't have a problems with his personality. He is entertaining.
 
Brands should have there own stuff my option I was gonna shove that srt8 6.1 in my caddy build but decided it was best left for a real car !
 
Ya know, I'm not against swapping and mixing brands but doing a Chevy motor into everything is so old hat and when there's a big supply of other kinds of engines.....it's like why not be different!! I was sick of seeing Chevy engines in everything 30 years ago and now it makes me just plain want to puke!
 
Cranky said:
Ya know, I'm not against swapping and mixing brands but doing a Chevy motor into everything is so old hat and when there's a big supply of other kinds of engines.....it's like why not be different!! I was sick of seeing Chevy engines in everything 30 years ago and now it makes me just plain want to puke!
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Exactly
I don't hate Chevy either, ran them for years

they just don't belong in certain builds

but;
it's not my $$$ or my car
so there's 'that part' of it too

the obligatory Chevy SBC in every coupe/roadster/rod
got really old
it was "mainly" because of oil pan/oil pump/sump in a huge part
easiest/cheapist way out
Especially Fords have a forward sump/pump,
most all Chevy's has the rear sump/pump/pan,
to clear the tierod & steering stuff
or the front axles or subframe

(many/most MoPars are rear sump pan too, rear Sump/Pump in SBM)

but;
a custom pan isn't "really that big of a deal"
or cost-prohibitive (especially nowadays)
people got so used to the catalog, checkbook buy a prefabricated & bolt-in deal
it became the accepted "new norm"

The early days of hot rodding it was common to see
Buicks, Pontiacs, Olds, Caddy, V8's anything overhead valve
made min. 2+ times the power of a typical Flathead
& even Chrysler/Dodge/Plymouth transplants too
most of the Hot Rods were flathead Ford
(they made 'millions' of model A's, they were dirt cheap)
or Even straight 6 OHV Chevy/Blue Flame or Stovebolt or GM's Flatheads
until after 1954-ish (started really in the late 40's with Olds & Caddy's)
guys coming back from WWII wanted to strip them Rod's down
& go fast with "whatever was cheapest, easiest", readily available
almost anything was more powerful in an overhead valve V8 form

it's not like that today
 
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Even Mopar has a rear sump setup for both small and big block engines......it's called a truck pan lol. A few years ago I saw a rat rod at the autorama and had to do a double take since it didn't have the 'traditional' chevy or diesel engine in it. It had a big block Mopar! Think I posted pics of it on here back then.
 
diesel_lv said:
A Caddy deserves a built 500". If you can find one anymore.
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I agree but I couldn't find one and probably couldn't afford one at this time it's got a 305 and a t5 5 speed in it ! Maybe down the line a ls1 and a t56 6speed but I'm not looking for speed I'm looking for a reliable drive type car cheap to maintain....
 
A few years ago, at the Kearney Cruise weekend, there was a pretty nice 79 Chevy Camaro Z28. It had a Ford 292 Y block truck engine complete with 2 barrel carb and the front over the top exhaust crossover pipe, it had the 4 speed truck transmission with the floor cut out. You should have heard the Chevy CRYBABIES crying.
 
I wonder how many members here got the joke....Cranky wrote "moder" NOT on his own but as a direct quote from the seller to which he is referring.
He certainly knows the proper spelling of the word.
 
Kern Dog said:
I wonder how many members here got the joke....Cranky wrote "moder" NOT on his own but as a direct quote from the seller to which he is referring.
He certainly knows the proper spelling of the word.
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What are you talking about? What seller? The 'moder' spelling comes from a member from another site that speeeled it wrong one day and it stuck. And you do realize there are members here that do poor sentence structure and speeeeling just for you, right? Please quit trying to correct us! We're all old farts now (well, most of us) and most of us young and old do not like to be corrected all the time by some English teacher that can't stand bad English. I for one ain't gonna change my bad grandma and bad speeeelin just for you to be happy so GET OVER IT!!!!
 
Cranky said:
What are you talking about? What seller? The 'moder' spelling comes from a member from another site that speeeled it wrong one day and it stuck. And you do realize there are members here that do poor sentence structure and speeeeling just for you, right? Please quit trying to correct us! We're all old farts now (well, most of us) and most of us young and old do not like to be corrected all the time by some English teacher that can't stand bad English. I for one ain't gonna change my bad grandma and bad speeeelin just for you to be happy so GET OVER IT!!!!
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Christ...I thought that you were making a joke and that SOME people might think that you couldn't spell. I was trying to defend you.
I see your point. I don't think that you see mine.
 
I think it just makes your car worthless, if I put a chevy motor in my roadrunner mopar people wont touch it because its got a chevy in it and chevy guys wont touch it cause its in a mopar, now I really like the look of a ford flathead all dolled up with offy heads with crome acorn nuts and three Strombergs or and old blower but I don't want to see it in anything but a ford , if your trying to sell me a mopar with an LS in it its gotta be damn cheap cause the first thing I'm gonna do is sell that engine to some chevy guy and start over but that wouldn't make sense in the long run would it
 
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