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Originally Posted by Henry Schmidt
I have no interest in arguing the merits of clean, orderly assembly other than to ask this question: What is the rationale behind a sloppy looking project.
As for "squandering money" if you can't afford to clean a project, perhaps that project should sit until you have time to clean it.
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Don't change the subject, we can all see right through that.
This thread started out with people drooling how engines looked and that had nothing to do with how
clean they were.
It was all about how shiny and buffed out and painted and polished they were. Then you changed it to sloppy, then you changed it to CLEAN. Stick to one thought process.
90% of overhauling a piece of machinery is cleaning parts for inspection and reassembly. You can't rebuild something correctly if it isn't cleaned correctly.
But there's a HUGE difference between clean and shiny.
This thread isn't about cleaning an engine or it's parts, it's all about making them pretty, shiny, chromed or polished, painted, and otherwise buffed out.
I appreciate pretty machines. The engine in my blown gas flatbottom was a supercharged chrysler hemi and everything on that engine was chromed, painted, or polished. Everything. Cost lots of money to get it that way.
But there was no BS involved, I make it clear that I did all that JUST to make it pretty and none of that pretty had anything to do with how it ran (high 7's in the quarter). I could have painted it all flat black and it would have ran just as fast and just as long.
I've been to your shop Henry and I appreciate how the engines you work on look.
You know what you're doing but you don't have to treat me like an uninformed customer. I'm not.
To pretend that they look all shined up because that's necessary to make em run good ain't gonna fly.
They are shined up and prettied up to appeal to the senses, not to make them run better.
There are allot of people out there who simply don't know any better and they think pretty and shiny means good.
Motor meister can polish parts too, but I wouldn't let them touch my engine.
It's a good business strategy to provide good AND pretty because that makes makes the customer happy, so there's nothing wrong with it unless they're told that pretty is necessary to make it run good.
In the old drag racing days we had a saying, "if it don't go, chrome it".
Oh, and anyone who rebuilds a 911 engine without installing seals on the rocker shafts is nutz
(That should do it.)
