Mopar Follies (was: easiest engine)

In rec.autos.tech Daniel J. Stern > wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Dec 2005, TNKEV wrote:

> > Edward Strauss wrote:
> >> You don't like my opinion so I am a fool and should be embarrased?
> >
> > I could care less of your opinion, and I could care less about the
> > subject and I could care less if you are embarrassed.

> And me, I *couldn't* care less about any of those things. If you *could*
> care less, it means you care _some_.



Another caring person. The world must be full of them...

In rec.autos.tech Steve > wrote:
> Edward Strauss wrote:

> <deleted>

> Some monkeys WILL fling a lot of poo, won't they?


Sure will.

On Thu, 8 Dec 2005 11:14:10 +0000 (UTC), Edward Strauss
> wrote:

>Yes, your giving me your opinion. My opinion was that ballast resistors were used on
>Mopar's far longer than they should of been.

should of been?

On Fri, 9 Dec 2005 08:30:46 +0000 (UTC), Edward Strauss
> wrote:

>> Mopar eliminated the ballast resistor in model year 1978 with the
>> Omni/Horizon.

My '79 had one.
1 Ohm, if I remember correctly.

>Which GM's had external, firewall mounted, ballast resistors?

1953-54 Buick, Olds, Cadillac. Maybe even a few more later years.
1959+ had resistance wire in the harness.

>With Fords they had the wire not the external firewall mounted ballast resistor.

Sunbeams using Ford engines used one one that was not resistance wire.

On Thu, 8 Dec 2005 09:36:25 +0000 (UTC), Edward Strauss
> wrote:

>A mag would of worked fine. A Vertex only needs one wire.

would of?

On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 06:10:45 -0500, Nate Nagel >
wrote:

>> share a keyboard or do you claim to represent everyone else who reads this
>> group besides me?

Nate can speak for me. Or for the group.
Nate for President in 2008!
Would be better than the last 25 years of trials.

>I think I can safely speak for most of the group when I say that a lot
>of the time we don't have a clue what the hell you're on about, just
>that you really, really don't like MoPar or external ballasts.

I wonder how he feels about ballast tubes in some antique radios.
Maybe he prefers the Ford/GM thinking of a resistance wire
in the power cord instead.