#1. The inventor of the rotor set screw! #2. The guy who thought that said set screw, while not important enough to make out of decent metal (or to have a replacement included with the new rotor), was important enough to be torqued to more foot pounds than a stubby screw driver can handle (at least when siezed to the distributor shaft). #2a would be the guy who decided it was too expensive to use a hex head screw. #3. The guy who decided that plastic is durable enough of a material for a shaft cam on said rotor. Or any other structural material for that matter. #4 The person who decided that the back of a transverse mounted engine was an appropriate place for a distributor, oil filter, hearter hose connection, etc. #5. Anyone who ever rivetted anything to any car (including those of you who think that pop rivets are a body shop supply). #6 Anyone who ever RTV'ed a valve cover leak! #7. Any engineer who decided that a car with one basic engine with no variations in displacement needed 4 different fuel systems and 3 different distributor types. #8. The inventor of the snap-connect fuel line. #9. Anyone who ever designed a car where the trunk will hold a temporary spare, but not the tire it replaces after a blow out. #10. The engineer who invented the cooling system that needs to be blown out under air pressure to completely drain, and therefore must be filled using a pressure feed as well. I'm having a bad day. :blast:
im right behind you on that one man! add to the list all of the yuppie dorks that drive stupid cars just to get chicks, when they could get them much faster in an old muscle car!
And while you are at it please smack around the guy who designed the mounting for the dash for the 66 Buicks. Gotta be a contortionist to get under there.
...AMEN! I'd rather do an engine swap than a dash. Trying to remove the speedo cable in a GM can be a simple procedure: Put the car up 4 feet in the air. Open the drivers door, position yourself under the door. Break your arm in 3 places, any 3 will do. You should now be able to grab onto the speedo cable. You can't unplug it, but at least you got there. Push in the little tab you can feel, and while it's pushed in pull out the speedo cable. This will cause the small tab to sever your index and middle finger, reattach as desired.
Ford is bad with this. A guy will come into the store and ask about, oh, let's make it an oil filter for an, oh...1994 Tempo. You need to ask if it's got a 5 or 7 blade fan, AC, power windows, engine size(a given), heavy duty cooling or not, if it's serpentine belt or not, and a few other things that I can't remember off hand. Then yuou get the guy in that says(in redneck Indiana drawl) Hay, I gawt a Sev'ny fahve(75) fo'd truck with a vey ate. Ah neeeeeed a fu' pump. (translation: Hey, I have a 1975 Ford Truck with a V8. I require a fuel pump.) Ok, what V-8 does it have? Ah don't know. When Ah Gawt it, it din't got a moder, so ah got one in there from another truck. Ah think it's a Fo'd, but it maht be a Chevy. (I don't know, when I got it, it didn't have a motor, so I have one from another truck. I think it's a Ford, but it might be a chevy). Then I've gotta screw around trying to figure out what engine it's got, it turns out to be a ford, and I need to go through all the same thing as I did with a Tempo, but with someone who has no clue.
Actress Sophie Marceau. If you saw Braveheart, she's the princess that had Mel Gibson's attention. Been in love with her ever since. Just don't tell my wife... :laugh:
