SAM Monkey...and PROUD OF IT.

[Greg Good]

Have seen some bashing on SAM gradautes lately. Hmmmm. :nono:

I was Jud's FIRST head class student, so to speak. :biggrinbo

He did me right.

[Patrick G]

You're more like a SAM gorilla if you ask me! ;)

[Greg Good]

Hey Patrick!
:cheers:

[evltwins]

is this anything like trunk monkey??

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdLLdh1xECg

[Brian Carner]

Or a sock puppet? :D

[wkmcd]

I once had a girlfriend that I swore must have taken a head class...:icon22[1]

[SStrokerAce]

is this anything like trunk monkey??

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdLLdh1xECg

I tell you that trunk monkey really helps.... I've picked up a lot of time racing with one of those!

[racer7088]

SAM was the best thing that I ever could have done to learn more and grow further as far as engine know how and knowledge goes. I mean both practical and theoretical. The best part is that it is full of people that also want the exact same thing and are willing to move all the way from their homes and leave their life behind for a good while to do nothing but talk and learn engines and heads and cams and intakes and headers and dynos and so on and so on etc.

Joe Mendelis on here was a very good example. He talked and lived engines non-stop the whole time he was down here in everyway. I hate that he didn't live any longer because it is people like him that really are gung ho about things that make the school a great place to be. Basically almost everyone there is hardcore and wants to learn more and go faster. Like all schools there's a few guys just going through the motions but there are many that are out there now at or even running things at high levels.

Thirdly I have a giant family now of former employees and teachers and graduates I can hit up when I am stuck or need some advice on something. There's almost someone in every pro racing shop I can think of from SAM and almost every vendor I use so it's a good networking connection where we always have someone nearly anywhere at any shop to ask something of if we need to. I couldn't have gotten that any other way but SAM.

[Cesar]

I agree with erik and greg!

Erik speaking of needing some advice...answer your phone!

[racer7088]

Cesar, not there today but I will call you later.

[Johny GTO]

All of you guys seem to be good, knowledgeable guys, but what about The Son of SAM?? He wasn't very good to his customers. I think SAM needs to go back and see where they went wrong with him.

[racer7088]

All of you guys seem to be good, knowledgeable guys, but what about The Son of SAM?? He wasn't very good to his customers. I think SAM needs to go back and see where they went wrong with him.

He was in school in the NY area and we shut that branch down!

[A_VAS]

I would actually love to attend SAM, but I need to be laid off first from my job...damn LOL

I'm curious, how long of a program is it, and roughly how much $$$ ?

[racer7088]

I would actually love to attend SAM, but I need to be laid off first from my job...damn LOL

I'm curious, how long of a program is it, and roughly how much $$$ ?

If you are interested go to this website and contact them and they will get you some information.

SamRacing.com

Like any school you get what you put into it but all the good students while I was there did extremely well.

Engine building and head porting are not the glamorous exciting carreers always that some think they are but if you already love this stuff it's a job that you can really enjoy.

Of course with the economy not doing so well everything is down right now but hopefully in the next few years things will come back up a bit.

[A_VAS]

Speaking of this....was a guy named Spencer from TX that was up here in PA working for a short while last year at a shop I do some business with. He since went back to Texas from what I heard....seemed like a good guy.
Anybody know of him or what he's up to? Cylinder heads seemed to be where he focused.

[racer7088]

Yes he actually was offered a job back in Houston and took it there. He seems like a good guy as well from what I have seen and I have talked with him a few times too down here.

[A_VAS]

cool, musta been too cold up here with the yankees LOL

[KMS]

I would love it if they opened up a branch in the midwest, say.. Chicago :)

*hint*

As it is there's no way I can uproot and go to Texas with a 5 month old, a wife, a mortgage, and other typical things, not that a ton of people don't have this issue.

[racer7088]

Yeah we can race all year round so that's one advantage but I like the cooler weather you guys up north have besides the actual winter.

[briannutter]

Jud got me going down my path!

[Greg Good]

Hey Brian!!! :cheers:

[briannutter]

To Paraphrase Jud speaking to my class back in '97:

"10% of you don't need me and you would find your way into racing regardless. 10% of you-there isn't a thing in the world I can do for you and you're wasting your time. For you 80% in the middle -I can have a positive effect on you and help you move forward."

"Leave your poor broke-dick friends behind (meaning all those people that try to hold you back from being a success whether they mean to or not)."

"You will be treated like you are perceived. (meaning shave the mullett/mohawk, cover the tatoos, and pull your damn nose ring out). If you want to look like a Freak, expect to get treated like one and don't blame "society" for looking at you funny."

For me, it wasn't the engine building lessons. It was the fact he wasn't afraid to tell me the hard truthes about myself and society.

Anybody remember some other "Jud-ism's" ?

[Greg Good]

One that Jud repeats a lot is one that was given him by a former student.

"You'll only ever have as much money as your customers have".

Something along those lines anyway, meaning try to have customers that can afford to pay what the job is worth. Good advice.

[A_VAS]

....Vipers...Corvettes....now I see.

Good advice...Greg I am buddies with a guy here you just did a set of heads for...Bob Z with the 98 Viper. Very nice looking port work BTW. Bunch of F'd up engineering from the mopar camp on that stock engine though.

[racer7088]

One that Jud repeats a lot is one that was given him by a former student.

"You'll only ever have as much money as your customers have."

Damn, I didn't get that one but it is one true statement!

That statement is my new mantra! I used to have lot's of Jud's wisdom and sayings and I can say I know now that he knew even more than I ever thought back then! The longer you are really in business especially for yourself the more I understand some of what he said or got PO'd at us back at SAM about.

[briannutter]

Here's another, just thought of it last night:

"you can't read because you don't read and you don't read because you can't read".

[Greg Good]

....Vipers...Corvettes....now I see.

Good advice...Greg I am buddies with a guy here you just did a set of heads for...Bob Z with the 98 Viper. Very nice looking port work BTW. Bunch of F'd up engineering from the mopar camp on that stock engine though.




Thanks.

Bob is a great guy to work with. I like him a lot.

Greg

[Patrick G]

Whenever I would try one of Jud's new combos, he always made this promise: "I can 100% guarantee that it's going to do one of three things: speed up, slow down, or stay the same".

[Greg Good]

Another one I've heard him mutter a thousand times, mostly to himself when he walks around the shop...is...


"Get a head, flow a head, stay ahead."


I think it used to be a Brodix slogan. Not sure.

[Cesar]

Another one I've heard him mutter a thousand times, mostly to himself when he walks around the shop...is...


"Get a head, flow a head, stay ahead."


I think it used to be a Brodix slogan. Not sure.



Ive had jud tell me that at times..hilarious.