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Old 05-05-2016, 10:17 AM
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Did Drag Week last year, there was a guy with 5.3 powered ChevyII with 2 snail shaped mufflers. Junk yard motor, over 100K on it, he said he didn't do anything but ARP rod bolts, and a cam. Car ran 8.50"s in the quarter, only lasted 3 venues before the big bang, but I was impressed. LS engines are amazing.
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Did Drag Week last year, there was a guy with 5.3 powered ChevyII with 2 snail shaped mufflers. Junk yard motor, over 100K on it, he said he didn't do anything but ARP rod bolts, and a cam. Car ran 8.50"s in the quarter, only lasted 3 venues before the big bang, but I was impressed. LS engines are amazing.
Snail shaped mufflers. Took me a second to figure WTF you guys are talking about...
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Old 05-10-2016, 02:49 PM
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Great build Andrew, I know this is an old thread but I just now read it
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Well Andrew, good on ya. I hate to say but I think the comments were almost more entertaining to read than the article. It absolutely amazes me that folks get in a pinch over an engine swap. At the end of the day you have a car that's fun to drive, is quick enough, and can go to just about any event and not feel excluded. That car is just plain cool.

As far as swaps go, I have a thing for wagons. If I had the cash flow I'd get a late 80s/early 90s Olds full size Custom Cruiser wagon and slip a Duramax with 1000 ft lbs into it to tow my Olds G body Cutlass wagon (which came from the factory with a small block Chevy), to the track. For the puzzled look factor I'd make sure it had Oldsmobile's Diesel badges on the fenders and tailgate. After that the Turbo 3.8 Buick in a Chevette project would get started...

If it makes it run better or look cooler, all's fair in hot rodding. If that's not fair to some folks, well they really don't get what hot rodding is all about and need to go back to the garage to dust and polish their numbers matching restoration that never gets driven. What a waste of Detroit history that is...
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HA! The comments are great... shows how small people can be some times when they don't take their pills!! Congrats on building something out of the norm... If you had stuffed it in a 69 Camaro nobody would have looked twice at it. Just drive it and enjoy it!
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Great build Andrew, I know this is an old thread but I just now read it
Thank you. It takes me a while to get to this forum and I appreciate the comments!

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Well Andrew, good on ya. I hate to say but I think the comments were almost more entertaining to read than the article. It absolutely amazes me that folks get in a pinch over an engine swap. At the end of the day you have a car that's fun to drive, is quick enough, and can go to just about any event and not feel excluded. That car is just plain cool.

As far as swaps go, I have a thing for wagons. If I had the cash flow I'd get a late 80s/early 90s Olds full size Custom Cruiser wagon and slip a Duramax with 1000 ft lbs into it to tow my Olds G body Cutlass wagon (which came from the factory with a small block Chevy), to the track. For the puzzled look factor I'd make sure it had Oldsmobile's Diesel badges on the fenders and tailgate. After that the Turbo 3.8 Buick in a Chevette project would get started...

If it makes it run better or look cooler, all's fair in hot rodding. If that's not fair to some folks, well they really don't get what hot rodding is all about and need to go back to the garage to dust and polish their numbers matching restoration that never gets driven. What a waste of Detroit history that is...
Ben....at some point we should discuss some upgrades to my GTO :-)

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HA! The comments are great... shows how small people can be some times when they don't take their pills!! Congrats on building something out of the norm... If you had stuffed it in a 69 Camaro nobody would have looked twice at it. Just drive it and enjoy it!
The Cougar definitely gets it's fair share of attention...most people actually have no idea what to think of it.

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Back when we were teens (circa 1980s), whenever a friend of mine would overhear someone ragging on some portion of someone's car, he would tap them on the shoulder and say, "so, which one of these is your car?" while he gestured with his hand at the other cars at the show/cruise/etc. I don't think he ever did this and had the know-it-all point to a car. It was always someone who didn't have anything they'd built.

If the others can't take a joke...

Cool ride, sir!
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Back when we were teens (circa 1980s), whenever a friend of mine would overhear someone ragging on some portion of someone's car, he would tap them on the shoulder and say, "so, which one of these is your car?" while he gestured with his hand at the other cars at the show/cruise/etc. I don't think he ever did this and had the know-it-all point to a car. It was always someone who didn't have anything they'd built.

If the others can't take a joke...

Cool ride, sir!
Thank you!

I always enjoy watching people go by the car at a car show...Most people just have no clue.

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