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Re: V8 conversion comments - per Persig



OK.  I'll admit to righteous indignation when I first heard about this but
I'm settled now.

There is a difference.

If Mr. ZO6 wants to accomplish this forced miscegenation because he simply
has the cahones to do so,  the event becomes trivial on its face.  Its final
resting place ?  A large round place filled with wretched excesses
perpetually "refreshed" by ideas-cum-things that at least one driven
individual thought clever.

As Phaedre said to Persig, Quality is an event.  In the Alfa quadrant of the
galaxy,  this is a non event.

There!

Don

91 164S
86 Graduate
79 Alfetta
Q45 Infiniti

----- Original Message -----
From: "Greg McNair" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, October 21, 2002 8:56 PM
Subject: V8 conversion comments


> As I said Peter, money and time is no object to him.  His daily driver is
a
> Z06 so his V8 needs are bountifully met, and he's the furthest from Joe
> backyard mechanic I have ever seen.  If it weren't for "joe backyard",
Dick
> Rutan wouldn't have circumnavigated the globe on a single tank of fuel.
Your
> words are just the kind that boost his spirit.
>
> Greg
>
>
>
> >Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 18:29:07 -0500
> >From: "Peter Webb" <[email protected]>
> >Subject: RE: V8 in a spider
>
> >Once again, why would anyone want to do this?
>
> >It makes far more sense effort and cost wise to buy the car that meets
your
> >criteria then try to modify one.   There has to be something out there
that
> >rumbles and handles reasonably well for less time and money that it would
> >take to attempt this.
>
> >It occurs to me that cars are a complete design.   Many experts spend
many
> >hours getting everything right, and along comes Joe backyard mechanic
that
> >immediately says they all got it completely wrong and this is the way it
> >should be done.   Baloney.   Find a professional design that fits your
needs
> >and buy it.
>
> >- -Peter
>
>
>
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