GM Working On A 'Mustang Competitor'!!

Jun 03, 2004 262 Replies

Slow down there Joe, I've obviously had my differences with RK so I'm not defending him, but you're BOTH right. It WAS a swap, but it was also Factory engineered. Just like the Boss 429 project was a factory engineered *swap*. Both programs were similar in that the factory decided to shoehorn a motor into a chassis that was never built for it. Kar Kraft cut and reinforced shocktowers to make the Shotgun fit in the Boss cars. Sunbeam had some guy named Hans with a huge sledgehammer who knew just right where to beat the crap out of the firewall. The reason I know this is because I know people who have owned and currently own BOTH of these cars. The guy with the Sunbeam is a bodyguy and has shown me the sledge marks with the original factory paint over those marks. He knows exactly how it was done. The Boss needs no introduction.

So says you?

I'm posting from the Camaro.firebird group, and what makes him so smart. you don't appear to be too bright either, like the dullest knife in the drawer!

Refinish King

PS Now I'll really be able to sleep well, with the penis gallery speaking so loudly!

"Joe" wrote

Tell that to the DMV and the government then. They're classified as trucks. My 'Chero has a HD rear suspension with coilovers and 10 leafs each side. It's got a hitch and can tow anything a new F-150 can and has done so on numerous occasions. It's a truck.

In 68 and later we were doing conversions to the four cylindered cars!

Plain and simple!

Refinish King

At this point, this thread has fractured too much for me to spend the time. I'm getting ready to pour concrete early in the week, and there's some last minute adjustments to make.

CobraJet

What, are you going deaf, too?

Oh my goshkins! I've been called questionable. Excuse me while I engage in some traditional wailing and gnashing of teeth.

CobraJet

Christ, if you can't keep up, don't bother.

CobraJet

What the f*ck is this, True Confessions? Sharpen up, slimebag!

CobraJet

Light trucks, and as such are absent from the Standard Catalog of American Cars and the Catalog of American Car ID Numbers. They are referred to as trucks in the Ranchero Source Book.

Are you claiming this as a factory option?

CobraJet

Local store have a sale on 140-proof Sterno again?

CobraJet

Damn, don't ever invite me to any of your dinner parties (I'm sure you're quite the socialite).

Can you imagine actually "planning" to sell a V-4 intake?

We have aviaries around here, too. Lots of guano on the floor. Kinda resembles your posts in several ways.

I thought it impossible to fall asleep during one sentence. I was wrong.

Well, give ol RK a big "attaboy" from me next time, will ya?

CobraJet

Want more respect? Give me their emal addresses and I'll send them your posts.

You have two cars waiting for you to get into a building? What, are you homeless?

It's all talk. You couldn't possibly restore jack s*it with brain damage and that daily anal thing you got going. Slapping Meguiar's on die-cast models doesn't count.

By all your s*it talk, I can only ASSume it's a set of Lincoln Logs.

Well, give it your best shot, and I'll look forward to the story in one of the Darwin sites.

CobraJet

Lessee now, you were drunk beyond belief, and RK had some fine biotch with him until 4 am.

Well, it don't take a detective to figure this one out.

CobraJet

It sure would. Only a detective would think I could be two places at once. Since I was three blocks from home, with a neighborhood girl.. R-K lives hours away from me, and believe me, I wasn't about to share that girlie with no one. Charles

If I do, Ill remember to Invite Spot over to keep you company. You do like 1%'ers?

If it was for a Kholler V-4, then yes I would. I have only ever seen 3 of them. All on wheel splitters.

What ever.

Yea next time we tag team your mom and your sister in the same bed. Charles

"CobraJet" wrote

No, I didn't mean to be misleading if I was, but it's there. The PO put it all in there cause he has a "rock band" and had to load up the bed and tow a big enclosed trailer with all the equipment. I've used it to tow the '66 on a dolly and my brother's '83 El Camino on a trailer (how embarrassing for him, heh). Of course the motor's been gone through and is getting ~1hp per cid and ~275 lb/ft range. No, I don't have dyno slips but that's not an SOP estimate either. My engine builder has been building circle track and drag motors for longer than I've been alive and runs a few "Legends" cars and has a Dr. Pepper/Mountain Dew sponsorship locally for one of the truck series (fiberglass bodies). I trust his estimate. It's a '68 302 that's now a 10:1

310cid with Edelbrock induction and MSD ignition (obviously more there than just that but a quick overview). This sucker rides as hard as a brick, kinda like an F-150 from the 70's (or a Ranchero with too much spring in the rear). Without any weight in the bed, the rearend jumps a bit sideways over the slightest manhole. It's so light it makes for some hair raising experiences occasionally.

"66 6F HCS" wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@comcast.com:

Right. Simply put, the "first cut" of the Tiger was Shelby doing his thing, but it ended up being a factory-produced car. Call them what you will, but to me, neither the 429 nor the Tiger is a swap. They're factory cars.

Joe Calypso Green '93 5.0 LX AOD hatch with a few goodies Black '03 Dakota 5.9 R/T CC

F*ck this topic, let it die!!!!!!!

STOP FILLING UP MY NEWS READER WITH THIS DRIVEL!

Martin '01 Formula - MTI Air Box Lid, K&N Filter, Hurst-6, SLP Cold Air Induction & Smooth Intake Bellow Corsa Catback w/Premium Tips '83 V45 Magna

But is it a 17 or a 19?

19 for off days and 21 for on days.

Don Manning

YEAH!! He's got "Premium Tips" on his Hon... I mean Firebird, RESPECT HIS CHICKEN!!

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