New guy with an AMC

[mike343sharpstk]

Greeting all!
I found this site while looking for information on the Street car challenge at Road America in a few weeks. Fortunately for me I live near RA and will be there checking this out as I would like to participate in such an event in the future. In a previous life I road raced motorcycles so I have been bitten by the road racing bug years ago. This street car challenge is very cool to me as it combines two of my favorite things, road racing and good ‘ol V8 muscle.

There is some amazing hardware on the site and I hope to learn from some of you on this site, other sites are great but they seem to either focus on drag racing or restoration, not all-around vehicle improvement.

My car, well…. It’s usually the only one wherever I go, I love it.
It’s a 1969 AMC Javelin. It’s an original SST with a 343 and had the dealer installed Donohue package a few months after it was purchased. I bought it from the original owner and finished the resto/ and round one of the mods last year literally hours before the Hot Rod Power tour kick-off.

Most of the modifications are just the old school tricks done to the original TA cars. My wife and I took it to the first 3 stops with zero problems, great event. My two kids and the wife also like to jump in the car and spend the day in the car going on some of our great local curvy roads and some ice cream, really enjoying driving it!

As you can imagine, I can’t exactly go out and buy hop up parts for this thing so I’ve gotten to be a better fabricator to say the least. For example tomorrow I need to make a few finishing touches to the panhard bar project. I purchased a Maier racing adjustable panhard kit for a mustang, chopped it apart and figured out how to adapt it to an AMC Javelin.

More information to come.
Cheers All !
Mike

[mike343sharpstk]

Here is how it looked a couple years ago...

And it ended up like this

That fact that I got this thing on the road is a miracle, did most of everything myself with some major help from a good friend who runs a bodyshop with his father.

[tyoneal]

Your Car looks terrific, probably the best that AMC ever put out.

I have always loved the Javelins, and they are damn few and far between anymore. I remember seeing the Red White and Blue Models at the dealership. No one was buying them then. Would REALLY love to have one now though.

Keep posting your progress, and please get some better pictures of your car in the sunlight.

Thanks for posting it.

Ty

[mike343sharpstk]

Here is a better pic, the back is riding a little high on this one, I lowered the back one inch after this was taken.

Here are a couple build pictures. Aerospace brake kit (the ONLY one available)


Boxed in lower control arms.


Subframe connectors. I also welded and gusseted several areas on the chassis.


Empty engine bay. Stock 343 in the car at the moment. I have a 401 project that's been started for some serious hooligan power.

[Spiffav8]

Looks great! Love those things!

[asifnyc]

AMC Rules!

[tgvettes]

awesome looking Javelin it needs LS power

Tonny

[Vegas69]

Screw the LSX. Everybody and their dog, grandma, and son in law is doing that now. Great work man, lot's of respect from me knowing how little aftermarket support is available.

[tyoneal]

Great New Pictures.

That car looks cherry, awesome!

That looks to be one of the better ones I have seen ion a very long time.

Welcome on board.

Post a lot about you car. They are few and far between.

Take car,

Ty

[radrambler]

LOVE THAT BODY STYLE..
SUPER NICE WORK

WELCOME TO


TOM