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C H E A P People that you know...what are your stories of that person you knew that went overboard with their habits?

In my 20's with my first apartment, I discovered turning off my hot water heater when not using saved maybe 25% of my electric bill.
After my divorce and now living alone, I went back to my bachelor days. However, now with a secondary insulated water heater, unsure of the savings today, but I do wash my clothes with whatever hot water is left over after a hot shower.
 
Where do you get a hot water heater?
That seems redundant, like scented cologne.
 
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ok i was about 7 years old and with my dad at a flea market. A seller had a blanket on the ground within his booth with alot of rusty tools and parts on it with a sign that read "all items ten cents" So my dad picks up a box with a brand new tapered roller bearing. He opens the box and sees this has never been used. It was an american made bearing but the box had only the part number on it and no way to know what vehicle this fit, or even if it was a wheel bearing or axle bearing or a bearing for some random other type of machine. So my dad asks the seller " how much?" The seller was a huge guy, mean looking tough guy type of guy. Now the price of this bearing was clearly ten cents, its value was about 24 dollars i was told later. So seller says :]" TEN CENTS". Even as a young child i figured it was a great price for this part and even i could have afforded it at that price. So my cheapskate father says " ILL GIVE YOU A NICKEL FOR IT" The guy jumped up from his chair and yelled loudly that it was only ten cents and sworth so much more. He was so angry! My dad just put the bearing back down on the blanker where it was before and walked away. Now my dad had no idea what that bearing fit, nor was he in need of any bearing in any of his cars, he was just so cheap that it was merely a reflex to counter offer with half the asking price. Now thats cheap!
 
That reminds of the story about the teenager that went into the drug store in the 60's to purchase some personal intimacy protection items.
He asks the druggist how much are they
Druggist replies "$.75"
The kid says "I'll take four".
The Druggist replies, "that will be $3.15"
Kid asks "what is the $.15 for".
Druggists says, "for the tax".
Kid replies, "so that is how you keep them on"
 
What would lead you to think I addressed you?
#105 was directly above mine.
 
Kern Dog said:
I've wanted to switch to Trick Flow heads but at $2000+, I wonder if they would deliver enough of a power increase to be worth it.
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440 with six pack rods & pistons 10:1, std port cast iron org. 906s w/good perf. valve job
clearance for the valvelift on the guides & decent Comp cam, like .540" gross valve lift-ish
w/an Edelbrock RPM dual plane intake, Holley 850cfm DP (IIRC)
Harlan Sharp Rockers/shafts (IIRC) built by Steve Dulcich (spell)

then switched everything over except the heads over to;
Stealth's Alum (Chineseium) 'std port' un-ported 200cc (maybe, they claim 212 ?),
bigger 'cheap valves' 2.14"int./1.81"exh. valves
(not great quality valves either, really need to replace them with a good quality Stainless Steel Valves
at a min. & I can attest to that 1st hand experience's, so add in that expense too)
80cc comb. chamber, maybe at best 260cfm flow, (they claim 280cfm :jackoff: ) w/std straight plugs
look the most like stock 906s, of the alum heads tested, they are 29#s each
made about 20hp over stock cast iron 906s, across the whole rpm range
base priced at $699.95 ea., you can get better USA sourced parts, by/from 440source.com
but it starts adding up, not a great bargain then...

then;
Edelbrocks RPM 'std port' 210cc un-ported & true 290cfm+ flow
2.18"int./1.81"ex. quality 11/32" all USA sourced parts/castings, Stainless Steel Valves
(IIRC) use the 84cc comb. chamber, you can get them in 75cc now,
14mm - 3/4" long-reach angle plugs,
need special ARP head bolts/washers $79-ish
across the whole RPM range about 40hp above stock cast iron 906s,
$929.50 ea.

then last;
Trick Flow Alum 240cc 'std port' are CNC ported
(that's about a $600-$1000 value in most cases, for porting),
& TFs have a lil' bigger intake valve 2.19"int./1.78"exh angle plug heads too,
(a tad smaller exhaust valve/than the Edl. RPMs)
a lil' smaller combustion chamber like 75cc
need special ARP head bolts/washers too $79-ish
made about 20 hp more, across the rpm range, than the Edelbrock's un-ported RPMs,
so about 60-ish hp more than stock with cast iron 906s
it's pretty good investment for HP gains
$1,399 ea.

IIRC each head, one was about $300-$400 more than the previous one, tested
according to Dave Freiberger, at the time filmed/tapped

All the alum. heads, were closed chamber heads too 75-80-84cc's
all are about 50-ish lbs less, overall combined weight savings depending on the heads,
over a cast iron 906s

Engine Masters did a good show on it, compared them, back to back to back to back
I think it was called the "Wedge head shootout" or comparison (? something like that)
to 1st they ran stock cast iron 906s
then to out of the box Stealth's
then to out of the box Edl. RPMs
then to the CNC ported 240cc Trick Flows...
 
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My family was doing pretty good financially as a kid but my dad grew up in the dust bowl depression era of Oklahoma. When the ketchup bottle would get low he'd add water and shake it up. Then, since we didn't know we'd open the bottle for our French fries and drown them in watery ketchup. Even though they were poor his mother insisted they all get a college education. My dad was a geologist like me.
 
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