No

Up until around 1974 or so chevy painted their engines orange, then they switched to blue. In the 80s they switched again to black

i thought it was for the size because i have seen orange 427's. never seen a blue block till now

Someone painted this engine the GM corporate blue color

that is a nice blue

I bought braided stainless blue rubber plug wires to match it

it kinda reminds me of dodges b5 blue

the distributer stuff seems confusing

im not as educated as i should be on the older stuff

It's a dying art

Hotrodding, manual machining, mechanical diesels, the old school stuff is all a dying art

yeah efi and the computer stuff has taken over everything

If anything ever happens that sets us back 60 years in technology, people like you and I will be kings

lol kings

takes over every car manufacture

Think about it

The dude who knows his way around the stock market? Useless, post-SHTF

The liberal that censored people on facebook for a living? Same thing

"Journalists?" They're done, too

yeah

But the guy who can keep your truck running?

people would be freaking out

That dude, you'll want as your buddy

you would make so much money from that though

Even in a barter economy, practical skillsets from back in the day will make you a very rich man

really one of the only things i dont care for when it comes to cars is the wiring

yeah it would

I can even go one step further

I know how to make lathe tooling

really?

thats cool

Yes, I can grind my own tools

grinder and a hammer

If you give me some high speed steel stock and a bench grinder, I will make a general purpose cutting tool, a UNC thread tool, a boring bar, parting tool, whatever

if i had to make a tool i can probably do it, it would just take me some time

I actually still have some makeshift tools around here somewhere

The boring bar I made needs a sharpening

I beat the snot out of that thing taking quarter inch passes on aluminum with it

i need to step my tool game up. i do a lot of rc stuff and i really need to put aside my current stuff and get one of those boxo moto boxes

Spend some money on good quality tools