The drama of this thread, and many others, is disturbing. As usual, I'm not getting it. Perhaps I am learning disabled as well.
I know the Moo man quite well.
This saw was just a gift to Jake by some generous folks here. I haven't seen anything insulting come from Jake. Perhaps some uncomfortableness about receiving a gift from an unknown person, but that's about it. I think many of us may have reacted just the same.
The story on the saw is as goes...
Someone bought Jake's old crappy 266SE off of him and sold/gave/swapped to another member. The saw wa in bad shape internally. The piston was one of the worst many saw in a running saw. Squish in the front was apparently in excess of .125.
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A bunch of guys starting chatting about it and decided to give it a go. It got a NOS 272 P&C that was ported with some good numbers.
Then it got carried away, because the 272 jug required a ton of parts that simply didn't fit the original 266. So parts started being shipped to Moo from the corners of the earth. The generosity was astounding.
At one point, the Moo man even tried his hand at hydrodipping, but it didn't work out.
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So the build was nearly finished, after swapping in 100 parts that weren't know to differ from a 266/272. Like the entire intake tract, the bolts to jug, the clutch cover that wouldn't clear the decomp, the replacement cover that got ruined in the hydrodip attempt, etc...
The flywheel springs weren't any good, so Moooooo threw his hands in the air and the Mango Man offered to finish the saw up.
That's pretty much it. Was a fun idea and the Moo man hopes Jake likes the saw. He thought his 064 might have just been too pretty to toss in his truck for work, but that this lil beast might suit Jake well.
