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Wipe a thin film of cooking oil over the block and when it heats up it will season the block just like a frying pan, well like frying pans used to be before the non stick crap, and it will be a nice dark colour with slight sheen
Or leave it rusty, then when you drag off that HSV, you can say haha this rusty pos beat your crappy plastic toy, or if you lose, then you can say, man the motor is rusted out bro!! |
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Speaking of cast iron blocks - how many modern day engines don't have an alloy block?
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the residue will darken up the rusty block and put things right... |
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We shall call it the Ford brown motor lol!
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I don't really think a rusty engine block is quite the image that Ford want's to portray to potential customers. Pretty poor cost cutting IMHO.
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I've bought a bit from him over the years... cheers...
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You mean to tell me that Ohio Mustang has literally be right across the street from the Ford plant I work at and don't know it??? Holy crap! Tell him he needs a sign! The copyright on his website is 2003 so he's been there for 7 years without me knowing it. How does that happen? Thanks for the heads up. Geesshh!! Quote:
I am personally a little bothered by someone that buys a car from a dealership and then drives it to a show where many people are displaying cars they have worked on for years, rebuilt, customized, and have literally left their DNA in skin and blood on the car.......and then this car straight from the dealership pulls up. Hey, it's still available at a dealership if I want to see one of those. I come to a show to see cars people have worked on or had worked on, restored, rebuilt, customized, and slaved over. I see new cars on the street everyday. I don't need an event to see a new car. Ok, personal rant over.... Quote:
A few weeks ago we went to where our daughter is going to college to see her perform with the marching band. Her boyfriend's parents were there too. We drove my wife's 1966 Mustang to the event as it was a nice day and probably the last chance to drive the car due to winter. The boyfriend's parents were checking out the car, and the 50 year old mother was admiring the engine. She said she didn't even know what she was looking at but it was beautiful. Then she made the comment that you could see the ground while looking in the engine compartment. She asked if something had happened. I told her no, that's how all cars are, you just can't see past the engine in modern, tight engine compartments. She said that she always thought the engine compartment had a solid floor, like a trunk. This is an older woman who has driven cars all her life, and she didn't even know that the engine compartment was not like a trunk (boot). I think these are the people Ford is expecting when they leave the iron blocks bare, but yeah, then why all the covers? Steve
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i dont care what anyone says but this isnt a good look,a person who knows little about cars would be horrified to see any form of rust on a brand new car.no wonder ford sales are in trouble
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why is it being referred to as 'rust'?
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What is it then? Dan |
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it smells like rust
looks like rust feels like rust and tastes like rust then it must be rust. |
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You look pretty strange smelling your engine block....
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not half as strange as when i lick it
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Join Date: Jan 2007
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Alloy doesn't 'rust', but still has corrosion. Just a difference of colour, that's all.
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What a laugh
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If I purchased a new falcon and it turned up like this I would not except it. I just don't like buying new things with rust on them. Owing an XA also makes me very paranoid about rust.
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