Re: time for this old guy to retire/new electronic

Posted by NC Wayne on October 04, 2005 at 20:48:47 from (152.163.101.7):

In Reply to: time for this old guy to retire/new electronics. posted by thejdman01 on October 04, 2005 at 13:35:22:

My auto mechanics teacher in HS used to work in Detroit at one of the car Mfgs. He started with an office at the back of the building and within a very short time it got moved to the front. Seems he cussed every engineer he passed every morning on the way back to his office and they didn't like it much. His favorite saying was "Engineers alway work in pairs. One comes with some dumb a-- idea and the other either puts it where you can't work on it or makes it so you can't work on it". True technology has come a long way but give me the old stuff anyday. They still hype cars getting 20+ MPG---well my 55 Chevy with a 283, power pack heads, a nice cam, a 450 spread bore Holley, backed with a 4 speed Saginaw never got less than 20 MPG unless I was playing around and keeping those mechanical secondaries wide open. The best thing was if it didn't sound just right I could pull into any parking lot and run the valves, etc in just a few minutes (yeah I was running solid lifters). As far as equipment goes I've got a customer right now that bought a brand new 345 CAT excavator a few months back. It's been down with problems in the electronics more than it's been up digging. To think he traded in a perfectly good old 3345 CAT that, with the engine we had just built for it, was running great except for an occasional line bursting from old age.I doubt the new one will ever get old enough for that to happen.... .......As for old -vs-new on emissions I've got a 78 Jeep J-10 that, based on what the sniffer told him, the guy doing the inspection said runs cleaner than a new car...... The bad thing is as long as people keep buying into the new technology their gonna keep "making things better" til he-- freezes over or the life expectancy of new items gets so short people stop buying. Problem there again is the life span of new stuff has gotten progressivly shorter and shorter over such a long period of time that many people don't realize how bad things have gotten. On that note for those of you that say I'm wrong think about this. Sure they say that new motor will last 100,000+ miles before it neds rebuilt. Problem is the plastic car it's in won't last that long. Look at the shape most cars from the '80's are in and their only 25 years old. Then take a look at the metal cars from the 30's on to the 70's and how many of them are still on the road. When that new cars engine needs rebuilt figure several thousand dollars, and then set it back into a pile of plastic junk. Now when the old engine needs rebuilt think several hundred, and you still have a good all metal car to put it back into....now you tell me which is best........

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