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Originally Posted by Oldsmaniac
This is a little off topic but since Mondello was mentioned in a sort of bad way I need to say something. Ive been building Oldsmobiles since the early 1970's. Back then the only game in town was Mondello.....while everyone else was poo-pooing Olds as a boat anchor Mr. Mondello was running these engines and putting together performance parts and manuals on how to make the engine survive. Wether he got his info from someone else or came up with it on his own is not important. He was the one stop shopping for Oldsmobiles and was involved personally with the brand. I give him credit for that and for promoting Oldsmobile with racing and performance. There are surely other sources for parts that were mentioned and Ive dealt with them and had my problems with them as well. They are all in it for the buck....wouldnt you? I built a 425 with all Mondello specs. and it has gone 7000 RPM and survives still. It would take my 67 442 into the low 12's with me shifting at 6400 RPM....As for ROP that site in my opinion is a bunch of snot nosed kids who thrive on BS and have a back slapping mentality among themselves. Yes there are some real racers there with top notch info but they are very Few! While Mondello was building and racing Olds engines most of the visitors at ROP were getting their diapers changed and nose wiped by their mothers. Just my rant....real info can be found here at Classic Oldsmobile.
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Hey...just putting it out there that there are currently OTHER sources for these parts. You are 100% correct in saying that Mondello was the only one in the game for that time. Dick Miller is a close second if not equal to Mondello at this point. Between this site, ROP, and 442.com there is varied info on building a motor. Oldspower.com seems to cater to the G bodies and even though I am a member there as well, I am finding the snot nosed kid to actual intellegent builder ratio is MUCH higher. I am VERY careful about what info I pull out of ANY site.
If you have no gripe about Mondello, cool. HOWEVER if there is more bad juju about going to (for example) Home Depot vs Lowes wouldn't you want to know too??
John