Beware what 'experts' you listen to... A funny one...

The internet, and the tuning world, and especially the tuning world on the internet, is full of shit talkers. No matter if it's people lying to help their their business, or people talking shit because they genuinely believe they're right, there's more wrong than right info out there.
Which is why, aside from a few exceptions from people who have PROVEN to me they know their shit, I only listen to proof, facts, data, whatever- Opinion means zero from 99% of the world to me.

The thing is, a LOT of people, even HUGE groups of people, can be suckered in by someones claims. Fuck, it's how a lot of businesses make money; all based on a lie.

I came across a cracking one recently.
​I don't know the origins of these lies, maybe it's just habitual, but this is someone that a certain group of people treat like a god, and for a LONG time too, many many years, and think is an "Ex F1 Engine Designer" (Is he? Fuck knows, Googling his name finds he's been around the tuning scene for a very long time, but that's it, and what he comes out with doesn't sound like one to me).

I noticed him (without having a clue who he was or what people thought of him) making very confident but dubious comments a while ago on Facebook, but whatever, I ignored them.
But then I saw him slagging off some cheap Chinese inlet manifold, and for quite an odd reason too, so I had to comment, and I'm glad I did. And it went like this...

His comment that finally made me bite was...

I couldn't resist saying something this time, so I replied...

He replied in no uncertain terms what his feelings were about this...!

And went STRAIGHT in there with the big "Do you know who I am?" internet Ronnie Pickering comment...

So I asked who, hoping he would dig himself a hole, and he reeled off some BIG claims...

And dig a hole for himself he did, I mean... This is a Mountune Focus WRC inlet plenum....

So I asked him why 'Dave', who he worked for, used them, if they're so bad and stupid...

And he makes an excuse, which basically meant his name dropping was meaningless. And also odd, as Mountune's BTCC efforts were mostly on the turbocharged Cosworth YB in the mid 80s on. And yes, the Cosworth YB inlet has trumpets too lol.

BUT he also claims he worked on the highest power Formula One Turbo engine ever, ie the BMW M12/13. BUT this is the BMW M12/13 inlet, complete with huge trumpets...

So I asked him about that, and he makes another lame excuse...

So we end up having a rather odd little conversation where he tried to deflect the argument and said something else that makes zero sense about uneven flow to cyls...

So he tried the old "If they were so good, why isn't EVERYTHING fitted with them" line...

Then for some reason he again tried to justify his point by showing what the entire universe knows- That not EVERY engine runs trumpets. No shit Sherlock...

So of course, I replied with my own picture...

And after that he unfortunately stopped replying. I think maybe he knew he was rumbled. But he's literally treated like a legit god of tuning among a certain bunch of people, as they believe he's an ex F1 Engine Designer.
Maybe he is? But if nothing else, that proves just because someone has had a job, doesn't mean they are right!

Also, just as it's interesting, here's a few more pics of the current modern F1 Turbo engines take on the inlet trumpets in the plenum thing. This Honda motor uses two big trumpets, adjustable length too, one for each bank of cyls it seems.