Inliners International Forums General Discussion Bench racing my wife thinks i have to many

think six is enough? she does. engines that is. she said there is no way i can ever use them all.
i've got 3 292's, 2 230's and 1 250.

how about you guy's?
tom

Hide the new ones you get. Or won't she 'buy' a 2 1/2 - 3 foot tall coffe table? (engine, no honey I bought you this nice counterweighted coffe table, see it won't tip over that way)

To answer your question, no, I don't think 6 is enough. But then, we have approxiamtely 14 (counting the ones in vehicles currently) between dad and I.

1 vortec 4200 and another one on the truck... due next week..

Just 2. My done 235 and my work in progress 216. What bugs my wife is that I have most of the 216 in the cellar! Right next to the laundry room!

I had a wife like that once, the new one was much better. Engines...a 292, a 250, a 230, a 235, a Crosley, two 259 Studes, several flathead Ford blocks...S

Toooooooo Many Never. If we do have to many one can always be given to someone else who may not have any and needs one. Seem most Boneyards/Junk/scrap yards crush them all.and They don't have any. But I'm not about to give them some to waste/crush.

Allan Jackson sings: Too much of a good thing, - is a good thing!! I think that relates to our 6 cyl engines too.
In the barn I have 4 gMc 302s, one 248, one 228, a Chevy -56 235, a 250 and an AMC 258. Some are good, some are objects. And then a 248 in the -55 gMc. Shes never down there in that old barn, so she dont know.

If you've got the space, why not? I've only got room for the one in my car.

1) 292 2)261 1)302 No wife!!!!!! I once made a propane powered, backyard heater out of a 283 Chevy. Didn't know what else to do with it.
Moondog

When I read this I thought what would a guy do with six engines sitting around in his garage. Then I got thinking; there is a 235 under the work bench, a 235 under the under the wall cabinets, a 250 sitting on the engine stand, I still have to go pick up a 261 and I am going to be pulling the 261 out of the 53 in a couple weeks. Oh and then there is the Mopar 383 with a 4 speed sitting in the corner, but it doesn't count because it has two to many cyclinder. So on second thought six engines shouldn't be a problem. I'm sure that this is alright with my wife as long as she doesn't know about them and she can get her car in the garage this winter.

Sweetie pie gives ya the " look " now and then, but she`s good about it. After 37 years together she understands the car thing. I have two 265 MoPar flattie sixes and one 57 Buick nailhead engine with tri-carb intake and lots of assorted parts---ya know them, the ones you might need but will never use them........oh well....52er

Just a side note---here in Minnesota we have a guy on 1500 am radio and his show is called garage logic---everything can be figured out in the garage. He has the 48 hour rule---if the CP ie: chief procurer( wife ) does NOT ask about new objects in the garage within 48 hours--it has always been there. If she does ask within the 48 hours you have to fess up---then you get the LOOK!

My V8 buddies keep throwing out their 6's and I just can't refuse a free 6 cylinder, so I have:
1-230, 6-250's,3-292's 1-55' 235, 1-62'235. I did buy 1 or 2 them. There is a 472 Cadillac in the collection but that's in another garage, I don't let it mingle with my 6's.

Steve O #1623
Mid Atlantic Chapter

After 37 years my wife still does not quite understand the need to preserve wonderful engines. Out in my retirement home (a shop/garage in the back yard) is a like-new 261 short block and two 261s awaiting rebuilding for installation in a 37-55-1 pickup (still to be procured). The 261 that I started with in 1958 is now in a self-propelled engine stand.

When the Wifey said the outside is mine she waived her right to an opinion of what is too much.I did get "The Look" from her when she came out to the garden and seen I used an old 216 block for a flower pot. It went real good with the tranny housing on it's end for another pot. She said I gotta quit coming up with ideas for the garden when I'm sippin' on a few Buds.

Three GMC 302s--including one (320 cid) that (as of 30 November 2007) actually runs, and sounds soooooo good--one Chevrolet 216 (running well); one Chevrolet 235 (not running); one 218 Oldsmobile flathead (not running). The daily drivers in our household are inline fours: a 1994 Mazda Miata and a 2007 Toyota Prius. We have long since shed the last v-thing, a 1999 Ford F150 that belonged to the Executive Committee.

The '52 Chevrolet Styleline Deluxe four-door with 216 belongs to the Executive Committee, and has therefore received priority in "restoration" work--paint and chrome--and maintenance. For years, the Committee's vehicle was the only one running and on the road, aside from the daily drivers. Her interest and pride in her own vehicle has, however, given the Committee patience with other projects and the parts thereof. Occasionally the Committee meets with herself and issues Summary Judgments about "too much clutter" and the like, but in general the Domestic Tranquility has been preserved by assiduous attention to the Committee's priorities, albeit at some sacrifice to the General Welfare of other projects. Yet such attentions assure that other projects can proceed and, eventually, even be completed. We live in hope.

God's Peace to you.

d
Inliner #1450

Don
Just a quick note to say that it was a pleasure to meet you and the committee last summer at the columbus picnic. You said you have the GMC running is it installed in something, on a dyno or an engine stand?

That GMC is running in the '52 Chevrolet two-door, with only a few hundred minor details to which we must attend before that vehicle is fully roadworthy. The GMC ran on the dyno in July 2004, but on Friday evening last we woke up all of Shirley, Indiana, in honor of my sixty-seventh birthday. Warmed up, it idled at 900 rpm with 50 pounds of oil pressure, just as it did on the dyno. i cracked the throttle a few times, and it sounded much like i hoped it would, through two 20-inch Smittys. If it runs as strong as it sounds, then that will be all i could ask of it . . . after close on 22 years.

God's Peace to you.

d
Inliner #1450

I have 10 engines, and if you count motorcycles I have 12 more, then there's the leaf blower, lawn mower, edger, etc.... count 'em all I have around 27 total. No such thing as too many!

Going back to the guy on the radio here---he calls all engines working or not are your C.I.---cylinder index---there is a rural and urban count, you should have more if you live in the boonies. Ya call up and he likes to hear you engine run. Lots of competion as to has the most. How about it!!! Who has the most cylinders! You can count your daily driver,classic,lawnmower,chain saw ect. 52er...

Let me see now... Peugeot 504 engines I have three TIs and four carby models. Two 404 engines. That's not counting a couple that are being discarded soon.

I have a 230ci Mopar six coming in, and there's a Nissan 3.0 six (RB30... what a lovely engine!) that's just come out of one of my cars and will be a spare when I fix a big end bearing.

Do I count the 318 Poly? Probably not...

Well lets see now...

2 inline 4200 - 1 in the '51 and the '06 4200 sitting in its bed waiting for attention..

a 406 sbc in the wagon...
a stroker 434 sbc on the engine cradle waiting for diagnosis what ailiin' it - the '51 got priority
2 400 sbc waiting for there turn to be assembled.
and a turd 350 in the camaro

Okay, if we're counting Vee engines as well, I've got a Poly 318 complete and a Poly 318 that's had many years of elemental exposure.

Looks like an oxy torch will be required to remove the crank, but the cam will come out all right. The heads are good, the block's been frozen and has some nice 'stitching' along one side and in the vee.

Isnt counting vees off topic??? Come back inline guys!

well if it seems like(one has to many or not much need for then why buy more?) I have enough blocks
& cranks. BUT i could use/need more Heads.Good ones not like some of the rotted,cracked,pitted up,ripped out threads. Peices of junk i have come across lately.And to think what should have gone
to the scrapper still floats around. Kinda makes you wounder what some people are thing????

Larry;

You'll find plenty in the mid-west.
Call Tom's Truck Parts.

Good luck.

As a very good friend of mine used to say, "If some is good, more is better, and too much is just barely enough" At the moment, I have one 194 in the Nova, and one on an engine stand, and I'm thinking seriously about acquiring a 250 to play with. Wives never understand this stuff.

Can I play? There are five 270s, two 302s, four 292s, four Ford flatheads,one 283,one 327,one 331 Caddy,one 500 Caddy,and fourteen Stude V8s(don't ask). Those are just the loose ones. I'm not proud of this it just happened. Do you want to talk about trannys,rear ends,wheels,doors,fenders........? It's a sickness,but I've got a great wife! She thinks we've only got 10 grand in the kids Stude! Boy can I pick 'em! My collection is small compared to some I know.

I was in a shed recently that had more Stude engines than that... maybe 20 more...

Problem is they were all in Studes.

Don't tell me where it is he'll have more! I'm thinking of building a new shop out of them.

Do what I did, get rid of the wife, more money for car parts.

Good idea,and when you get all those shoe boxes out of the closet there'll be room for a couple more engines

well hell!
as long as we're counting......3) 261s, 1) 235, 1) 250, 1) 292 & now......I BY GOD GOT A 302 GMC!!!! i haven't had a chance to brag yet this seems like as good a place as any. my dad & brother spotted it in an old yard a ways south of here. it appeared to have sat in the open in a bare chassis for years & maybe even under flood waters from a nearby creek. i knew it would be a gamble but it was just iron to the yard owner & he took $75.00 for it!!
when i got it home & torn down i found original gmc bearings on a beautiful crankshaft! ( thank god there was enough oil down there! ) #2 thru 6 cyl. bores had only light rust & very little ridge on the original cyl. bores. #1 was where most of the flood water ended up & froze & busted the cyl. wall from inside out. good news is that even before we unloaded it from my truck my machinist said that if the rest of the block checked out a sleeve would take care of it. AND IT DID & SO DID THE HEAD!!! no other cracks anywhere! best 75 bucks i ever spent! altho i'm still & always will be a big 261 fan, i'd never been into gmc before & have to admit it's far superior to the chevrolet.
it's partially reassembled for now & stored in the mini barn behind my shop. it'll go in my '50 coupe when i get my truck finished. i'm thinking i'll weld up an aluminum intake for 3 holley webers when the time comes. thanks for letting me brag guys!
robert
p.s. i don't know anybody who has enough of anything they like!

Met a guy yesterday who didn't plan that... but it's what's happened...

An old car dealer from way back, retired in 1992. His wife died three or four years ago, so he's been steadily increasing his collection of cars to fill the void.

Yesterday he took me for a run in this one:



Of course, it is an inline engine, so it qualifies:



But not all of his cars are. He has three or four Mercedes models (250CE, 280SE and CLK that I can think of), but a couple of Fords have V8s in them.

All the same, the enjoyment he gets out of these cars and club activities with the cars are making his life less unfulfilled than when he was first widowed.