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Originally Posted by Geronimo
This was the general feeling I got from the guy. I asked him to give me a specific example that was "wrong" in the book... I got
"I could spend a month making a list of a hundred things - I do not have time for that. We are booked solid with over 40 engine builds and rebuilds in progress and have a lead-time way over a year now. I am working on another book, and it will not try to compete with the excellent factory manual or Bruce Anderson's book but more be a part and part difference guide what you can use with what and what you cannot and why etc. - maybe I will include a chapter on the many, many things not to do and why. If you want to know how to do it right, ask any professional, not someone who writes a book on building his first engine - we keep learning after hundreds of engines rebuilds and builds, you learn every day and trust me, the "Porsche Witzbuch" is a joke that is misleading a ton of people - people think just because it is written or printed it is right - the quantity sold has nothing to do with it's quality."
I would love to get my hands on factory manuals, might be over kill but would be nice to have.
Thanks for confirming the feeling I got from this interaction.
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Yet has the time to engage in verbal slap fights on FB.
He's probably more miffed that Wayne has empowered people to do their own engine rebuilding, taking away from his service business. If the guy really cared about teaching people to do it right, he would host classes like Bruce Anderson and Jerry Woods used to do. For some people it's about the community around the cars, for others it's about how many $$$ they can make.
Are you building an engine right now? I'd lend you my factory manual if you are.