content: LOL If you have the time and energy, go back through my comment history! I have a nice restored (and slightly modified) '82 245 that I pretty much exclusively take out in the winter - I too call it a tank. It's my brick! It has a few mods but it's never going to be a speed demon. It has the skid plate, timing adjusted, fed a bit more air, etc... I sent it out to iPd in Portland, OR. They did great work on it.