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Ah, he finally got it broken in. Darn near as bad as a Cummins on break-in.

I got worried, for no reason of course, about my first /6 so I overhauled it at 166,000 miles. It had been a well maintained car owned by a vacuum cleaner salesman and when I miked the journals there was less than 1/2 of

1/1000 of an inch wear. Bore didn't even have a ridge, so I honed them, popped in new rings, bearings, timing set and a rebuiilt milled head (0.090"). Then I installed a low restriction exhaust and rejetted the carb (the big BBS single) and started kicking some 2 barrel V-8 butt.

Budd

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Budd Cochran
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Probably not, but those things looked about 10 feet wide.. lol

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mac davis

I remember it as the all time rip off...

The ads on tv wee shot from almost underneath it and at an angle to make it look like a low, wide sports car... then, when you saw one on the street, it looked totally different... and bugly..

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mac davis

I remember a friend had one in 3 different valiants... kept wearing out the cars but that engine just wouldn't die..

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mac davis

It was to accomodate the 304 that the 78 and up Pacers got the raised hood/square grille. The car was originally slated for a Wankel. A dealer in the Northern states was installing 401 HOs in them, along with the old Gremlin.

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clare at snyder.on.ca

yea we loved the truck and had not a minutes problem out of the engine. but we needed something a little bigger and more family friendly so we sold it and bought the 99 v10 (what a differnce in mileage).

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Christopher Thompson

a wankel? shoot i thought mazda was the only ones crazy enough to use that desighn! *grin*

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Christopher Thompson

A 3-rotor Wankel went 9.85 @ 133.41mph:

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They certainly havemy respect! As for the Pacer, they (sort-of) became cool when Wayne's Worldwas released. =) IMO, it's not the ugliest AMC... the aware would have togo to the Matador or Gremlin.Bryan

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oh they have my respect, for the same reasons. but i also worked with the guys in the mazda shop for a while and they WOULD NOT take a rx7 on a test drive without a fire extengisher. LOL

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Christopher Thompson

you mean going from MPG to GPM? *g*

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The Pacer was supposed to receive a twin rotor Wankel that GM was supposed to put in the Vega although I think it was supposed to be upsized to a 3 or

4 rotor version to handle the higher curb weight.

Budd

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You mean Dick Teagues Matador coupe. The sedans and wagons were actually pretty classy.

GM was working on the Wankel, and it would have gone in a CORVETTE if it had come to be. The same engine was originally slated for the Pacer.

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clare at snyder.on.ca

thats about the size of it....but it was fun =) last ride to the dealer to trade the v10 in on the 05 ctd my brother in law rode with. floored it from rolling start @ 70 scared the sh*t out of him! LOL

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Christopher Thompson

which moved faster, the gas gauge or the tach??

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mac davis

the tach was fastest. mph and fuel matched speeds in diff directions *grin*

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Christopher Thompson

yeah, I had an old Vett like that... burned a lot of gas to go a mile in a hurry, but you damn sure had fun going that mile.. *g*

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