User talk:Dyno Tested

Please consolidate your edits[edit]

Steve, I'm glad to see you've registered, and you're making some great contributions. Will you please try to make all your edits to any given article (or section of an article) in one go, rather than your current practice of making an individual edit, saving it, making another edit, saving it, making another edit, saving it, and so on? Consolidated edits are considered much more coöperative and user-friendly than numerous individual edits. You'll find the "Preview" button is a great tool; it lets you see what your edit will look like before you actually save it. Thanks! --Scheinwerfermann (talk) 06:42, 20 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! I can understand your artist technique — it's just a lot of editors take a dim view of multiple single edits, and some administrators see it as an attempt to stymie coöperative effort on articles. It can easily wind up working against you despite completely pure intentions. Also, I hesitate to ask because it seems to run against your grain, but will you please sign your talk page comments by putting four tildes ~ at the end ? Thanks again, --Scheinwerfermann (talk) 20:59, 20 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

:Image:Valiantcat.jpg[edit]

Strictly speaking, you may have taken Image:Valiantcat.jpg, but I strongly suspect that what you photographed was in fact a Valiant sales brochure or other promotional literature. Doing so does not constitute making an image that is yours to release to the public domain, and does not qualify as fair use. Would you like to please remove the image yourself without anyone having to report it as a copyright violation? Thanks. —Scheinwerfermann (talk) 02:22, 19 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

OK, fair enough. I'm human, which means sometimes I'm wrong. It certainly is a hell of a nice white Valiant they've got at the museum, isn't it! Did you spot the aluminum 225 engine downstairs? —Scheinwerfermann (talk) 01:17, 20 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Named references[edit]

Steve, you're adding great content to Valiant, but will you please take a careful look at how I've tidied up the multiple references to the Loofbourrow (et al) document, and emulate it whenever you're making multiple references to a single source? It's really easy and makes not only a much cleaner and neater reflist, but also a much easier-to-edit article. —Scheinwerfermann (talk) 02:41, 9 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Y'know, I lived in A2 for years, and knew the Detroit library is a treasure trove, but I never made it there to check it out. I was in Detroit a few months ago for the SAE Congress — saw Bill Weertman give a terrific presentation on the history of the (real) Hemi engine — but although I've got in my collection a great deal of the material you cited in Valiant, I've still never made it to the DTW Library! —Scheinwerfermann (talk) 00:34, 14 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Weertman took me on a tour of Arrow Engines, where all the MP crate engines are (or at least were, at the time) put together and prepped for sale, starting with production engines right off the truck lines. At that facility, I got to do a dyno pull on a gen-2 Viper V10. Talk about interesting sounds! Somewhere I still have the Arrow business card, which is made out of titanium. (Oh...one other thing: we no longer need to include the D-word when talking about Chrysler ;-) )—Scheinwerfermann (talk) 22:52, 14 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Image:Valiantmanifold.jpg[edit]

Very sharp eye, correctly identifying this as a 1960 sand-cast aluminum intake; Chrysler were receiving MY1960 aluminum intakes from no fewer than nine different foundries, some of which used sandcasting and some of which used semipermanent-mould techniques. I'm not entirely certain this is a 1970s engine, though. It's mounted on 1973+ spool-type mounts, but there's not enough surrounding detail to determine exactly what sort of car this engine is in, nor to discern other year-identifying features of the engine. Is this vehicle near you? —Scheinwerfermann (talk) 22:56, 14 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, the '78-'84 EB-welded intakes had real problems with porous welds, and they tended to crack at the floor near the EGR passages because the thin aluminum couldn't withstand the thermal cycling (cold from above, hot from below). These intakes can be used successfully, but it takes a great deal of careful prepwork and encapsulation (selectively-applied epoxy or powder-coating). They weigh almost nothing. The '76 Feather Duster / Dart Lite intake was a nice quality sand casting. The '75-up cylinder head doesn't have the plug tubes, you're right, but I view that as a disadvantage. There's much wider spark plug selection for the '74-down (plug-tube) head, which also weighs less, and the plug tubes really aren't difficult to seal.

Do I have a slant-6? Yeah, maybe one or two ;-) if you go hunting, you will find my cars sprinkled throughout the relevant articles. One of 'em's got an original aluminum-block 225 (another one [i]had[/i] a '62 aluminum 225 I swapped into it, but I sold that car...still miss it; my only link to it are the pics here on Wikipedia). And still another one really doesn't get driven often enough; I ought to sell it. —Scheinwerfermann (talk) 01:14, 17 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Nope, the Hyper-Pak wasn't mine, though I do have (and have had) some interesting and seldom-seen intake and exhaust manifolds that bear Chrysler casting numbers. The EB-welded intakes were a good idea, and the SAE paper on their development and manufacture is pretty interesting, but yeah, the weld quality was poor. Still, some very experienced slant-6 builders (and racers) do run them; see here (the whole thread's pretty interesting reading). —Scheinwerfermann (talk) 03:54, 20 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Dodge Dart Trans Am series, etc.[edit]

DT, can you please add some citations from reliable sources for the Trans Am material you just added to Dodge Dart? Thanks. This whole article is in great need of citations; I'm pretty sure you and I could do a good job of providing cites for most of the potentially-questionable assertions in the article, but even if neither of us has time to go through and do so right now, a good way of preventing the task growing ever-bigger will be to cite sources for whatever new material we add, eh? —Scheinwerfermann (talk) 19:05, 6 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Duplicate Image:Headers.JPG[edit]

Hello, this is a message from an automated bot. A tag has been placed on Image:Headers.JPG, by another Wikipedia user, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. The tag claims that it should be speedily deleted because Image:Headers.JPG is a duplicate of an already existing article, category or image.

To contest the tagging and request that administrators wait before possibly deleting Image:Headers.JPG, please affix the template {{hangon}} to the page, and put a note on its talk page. If the article has already been deleted, see the advice and instructions at WP:WMD. Feel free to contact the bot operator if you have any questions about this or any problems with this bot, bearing in mind that this bot is only informing you of the nomination for speedy deletion; it does not perform any nominations or deletions itself. To see the user who deleted the page, click here CSDWarnBot (talk) 17:41, 8 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

December 2014[edit]

Hi there! Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia.

When editing Wikipedia, there is a field labeled "Edit summary" below the main edit box. It looks like this:

Edit summary (Briefly describe your changes)

I noticed your recent edit to Birmingham, Michigan does not have an edit summary. Please be sure to provide a summary of every edit you make, even if you write only the briefest of summaries. The summaries are very helpful to people browsing an article's history.

Edit summary content is visible in:

Please use the edit summary to explain your reasoning for the edit, or a summary of what the edit changes. Thanks! John from Idegon (talk) 23:24, 17 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

ArbCom 2019 election voter message[edit]

Hello! Voting in the 2019 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23:59 on Monday, 2 December 2019. All eligible users are allowed to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

If you wish to participate in the 2019 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. If you no longer wish to receive these messages, you may add {{NoACEMM}} to your user talk page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:10, 19 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Disambiguation link notification for October 9[edit]

Hi. Thank you for your recent edits. An automated process has detected that when you recently edited Chrysler TC by Maserati, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Bob Lutz. Such links are usually incorrect, since a disambiguation page is merely a list of unrelated topics with similar titles. (Read the FAQ • Join us at the DPL WikiProject.)

It's OK to remove this message. Also, to stop receiving these messages, follow these opt-out instructions. Thanks, DPL bot (talk) 06:31, 9 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

ArbCom 2020 Elections voter message[edit]

Hello! Voting in the 2020 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23:59 (UTC) on Monday, 7 December 2020. All eligible users are allowed to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

If you wish to participate in the 2020 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. If you no longer wish to receive these messages, you may add {{NoACEMM}} to your user talk page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:39, 24 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Mopar[edit]

Lemme guess, you have an affinity for Mopar products? Best regards, see you around. Mr.choppers | ✎ 01:31, 20 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Good guess! I had three Slant 6 cars and my father was a Chrysler stylist. Just fun to tinker here! Cin cin! Dyno Tested (talk) 02:11, 20 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Had to click the username when I saw it. My father also worked for Chrysler (engineer). Cheers! IPBilly (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 17:31, 26 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

That's cool. My dad said if you worked for any other of the Big Three, the weirdos ended up at Chrysler. Dyno Tested (talk) 02:35, 27 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Logical quotation[edit]

Here is the link. Thanks, BTW, for your work on these articles. I couldn't create well-cited content with a gun to my head, so instead I try to know the MOS well and stick to copyediting. P.S. My dad was also a big Mopar guy (although he worked for John Deere). Primergrey (talk) 15:11, 28 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, I appreciate that! I've been attempting copyediting because my hands have been tied since Covid, to some degree of success! Yeah, Mopar is the best; Chrysler used to give you more bang for the buck. Did your Dad work in Moline? Dyno Tested (talk) 15:59, 28 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Steinbach, Manitoba. I personally grew up in the rear-facing seat of a Grand Monaco wagon. Primergrey (talk) 20:02, 28 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Really? Which year? Dyno Tested (talk) 23:27, 28 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

'76 (a year older than I was) with the 400. Primergrey (talk) 01:10, 29 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, the Magnum mill; I bet it hauled ass especially in a sleeper like a station wagon! Dyno Tested (talk) 02:21, 29 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

As long as its thirst was quenched, trailers were towed, hills were flattened, and good time was made. Primergrey (talk) 03:14, 29 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Ha! Very nice. I've never been west of of the Soo, though my wife and I almost went to one of the Phantom of the Paradise cons/festivals in Winnipeg. Dyno Tested (talk) 14:30, 29 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

ArbCom 2021 Elections voter message[edit]

Hello! Voting in the 2021 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23:59 (UTC) on Monday, 6 December 2021. All eligible users are allowed to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

If you wish to participate in the 2021 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. If you no longer wish to receive these messages, you may add {{NoACEMM}} to your user talk page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:25, 23 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]