[DeTomaso] supercharger questions

[MikeLDrew at aol.com]

In a message dated 1/4/10 13 10 56, boyd411 at gmail.com writes:


> Once again in the interest of keeping my post brief i have condensed my 
> message. I know I have habit of being long winded and I am trying to improve 
> on that trait.
> 

FAIL! :>)

But it's all interesting to read, so it's all good! :>)

BTW Smeding is right up the road from me; I went in there a few weeks ago 
to learn a bit more about them, since several friends have Smeding crate 
motors and they really like them.   Turns out they are not a machine shop in the 
traditional sense, but rather a small engine factory.   They build a 
handful of different engines, all exactly the same as one another, and just stamp 
them out like a cookie-cutter.   There are no real options.   You just buy 
the engines they build, or you go somewhere else.   

It's an interesting business model, as this gives them terrific 
repeatability since they're not experimenting all the time.   They've got their recipe, 
and just bake the same cakes over and over and over.   Each engine gets run 
on the dyno before it goes out the door, and in fact when I was there the 
dyno was humming and there were several engines lined up waiting to be 
tested.

If you happen to like the cakes they bake, it seems like a very good 
alternative to having an engine custom-built locally.

Mike