How do you keep crate late model from catching on fire?answer:Keep dynamite Dave Lewis away from it.hehehe  Rumor is that you are going to be the new head offical at ocean,any truth to this?

I dont care what happens but thats a great nick name and a funny joke too. Forever more Dynamite Dave Lewis.

Hey Dave if it is your choice to burn your motor, you might want to do it in your driveway instead of trying to burn Phil's eyebrows off.  If the wrench that went on the fuel fittng was the same wrench that went on the motor that Jeff Mead loanded MAD MAN maybe that wrench is ready to burn with the motor.  Looking forward to a big glow!!!!!

hey Dave, Jeff Mead here.  I knew if I responded to Elmer you would come back and play the big I AM.  I offered Mike a motor that was no where near completion.  One week after you personaly had to take apart a motor Mike had bought with a parts car and put back together and blew up in the heat race at San Jose and you charged him to assembel it.  Ripper fronted all the machine work and all the parts to finish it, Mike bought a cam and lifters.  When putting the motor together in your shop I broke a ring and called you to see if you had one.  You said yes put as much as you can together and I will bring it down after work.  You showed up with the ring, put on the piston, put the piston in the hole, put the rod cap on, snug it up while we were taking the old motor out and said got to dinner with my wife.  after the motor was out I came over put the pan on, not checking the rod nuts (that is were I went wrong).   Motor goes in the car, with the help of me, Mike, Travis, and Jason or Berry, no you did not install the motor you were at dinner and next door at McCouns.  You showed up to start the thing and load it.  To clearify even more Mike towed the car down, I got there late, Mike said the thing made a noise but I could not hear it suprise, suprise.  The motor come apart in the heat race.  Then you show up and it was Travis that borrowed the motor from Todd  and outside of barking orders all night and in the morning I think the only thing that you did was change the rockers and studs and even that turned into a huge delima.  After we get home and I muster up enough money to pay Ripper back, alls I hear for the next 9 to 10 years is how it was all my fault.  Dont have Jeff touch anything.  Now who is on the outside looking in, have fun on the computer, I will be at the track.   Have not seen you there much sense the fall from power.      

dave_lewis wrote on 12/25/06 at 5:49pm:



Hey, if you can't stand the heat, stay AWAY from the engine!

I crack myself up.

Dynamite Dave,if you cant stand the dirt ,then maybe you should stay out of the pits.lol not

I think the thread should be renamed "First mistake in putting a motor together". More than one person assembling a motor always ends in a failure, and turning it into a relay race will only make it worse.. Sounds like everyone had good intentions.

Honestly, it sounds like every one is trying to blame some one else, when in fact all involved could have double checked some torques(a good practice any way), and prevented catastrophic failure. There are about a thousand things to remember to do when assembling an engine, and ignoreing any one of them will ruin just about the whole job. I'm sure it's a whole lot beeper than that though.