Since I had my photos handy, I thought I'd post a few on here.
The black one is my old '84, 229 V6, TH250. I added a Cherry Bomb turbo muffler and an open air cleaner with a K&N and Accel 8.8 universal wires. Eventually I swapped it for a Chevy 350 small block. Unfortunately, this one was totalled because I was still young and stupid at the time. The blue one was an '83 229 car, only upgrade was an Alpine CD player. The primered beastie was also an '83, 229 V6, modified with a glasspack and removed cat.
The burgundy car is an '84 305, TH350 car. Added headers and true duals with side exits in front of the rear wheels, Accel 8.8 wires, cap, Accel cap and rotor, and K&N open element air cleaner. The gray one was originally a parts car, but ended up getting patched together for a street stock circle track car, 229 with y pipe out the passenger side, modified air cleaner, gutted interior, "custom" paintwork. This was the weekend of a RV trailer race at Orlando Speedworld, summer of '02.
These are my wife's old cars. A redwood metallic 1982 Monte Carlo, 229 swapped to a 350. The Bomb, originally a 267 car, but swapped with a 350 small block, Holley carb, unknown lumpy cam, headers and duals with Flowmaster 40's. The brown '83 Cutlass (which was resprayed burgundy with silver stripes) is my brother in law's. He's the maniacal looking one there. It was a 307, but has since been swapped out with an Olds Rocket 350, 200-4r with shift kit, 3.73 posi.
These are some of the less than pristine cars I've owned. The '81 Monte, 229 V6, Summit turbo muffler, Accel 8.8 wires. This car was unfortunately swiss cheese in the rear (trunk floor, rear cowl panel into the rear deck, bottom of both quartes) and the nose (fenders were rotten where they bolted up to the core support). The car to my understanding is gone, but the motor and transmission live on in an '82 Malibu. The '88 GP, 2.8 V6, bought it for $100 and drove it for 6 months, plagued with the nightmare digital/analog dash which decided time to time to not display mileage or fuel. Car had about 250,000 when it drove itself to the yard, and got $85 for it! That's something to drive a car for 6 months for $15!
Then the one Ford I have owned, an '86 T-bird, 3.8 V6, C5 transmission, went to the junkyard with 200,000 on the clock. Paid $250 for it with 190,000 miles. Knocking con rod, filled power steering fluid every 2 days, tried to kill it Dukes of Hazzard style (jumping it over the main road from a low lying dirt driveway). I got 3 feet of air under it, landed nose first and tweaked the front end under the hood (seemed to fix the alignment problem!LOL).
Cheers,
Aaron
The black one is my old '84, 229 V6, TH250. I added a Cherry Bomb turbo muffler and an open air cleaner with a K&N and Accel 8.8 universal wires. Eventually I swapped it for a Chevy 350 small block. Unfortunately, this one was totalled because I was still young and stupid at the time. The blue one was an '83 229 car, only upgrade was an Alpine CD player. The primered beastie was also an '83, 229 V6, modified with a glasspack and removed cat.
The burgundy car is an '84 305, TH350 car. Added headers and true duals with side exits in front of the rear wheels, Accel 8.8 wires, cap, Accel cap and rotor, and K&N open element air cleaner. The gray one was originally a parts car, but ended up getting patched together for a street stock circle track car, 229 with y pipe out the passenger side, modified air cleaner, gutted interior, "custom" paintwork. This was the weekend of a RV trailer race at Orlando Speedworld, summer of '02.
These are my wife's old cars. A redwood metallic 1982 Monte Carlo, 229 swapped to a 350. The Bomb, originally a 267 car, but swapped with a 350 small block, Holley carb, unknown lumpy cam, headers and duals with Flowmaster 40's. The brown '83 Cutlass (which was resprayed burgundy with silver stripes) is my brother in law's. He's the maniacal looking one there. It was a 307, but has since been swapped out with an Olds Rocket 350, 200-4r with shift kit, 3.73 posi.
These are some of the less than pristine cars I've owned. The '81 Monte, 229 V6, Summit turbo muffler, Accel 8.8 wires. This car was unfortunately swiss cheese in the rear (trunk floor, rear cowl panel into the rear deck, bottom of both quartes) and the nose (fenders were rotten where they bolted up to the core support). The car to my understanding is gone, but the motor and transmission live on in an '82 Malibu. The '88 GP, 2.8 V6, bought it for $100 and drove it for 6 months, plagued with the nightmare digital/analog dash which decided time to time to not display mileage or fuel. Car had about 250,000 when it drove itself to the yard, and got $85 for it! That's something to drive a car for 6 months for $15!
Then the one Ford I have owned, an '86 T-bird, 3.8 V6, C5 transmission, went to the junkyard with 200,000 on the clock. Paid $250 for it with 190,000 miles. Knocking con rod, filled power steering fluid every 2 days, tried to kill it Dukes of Hazzard style (jumping it over the main road from a low lying dirt driveway). I got 3 feet of air under it, landed nose first and tweaked the front end under the hood (seemed to fix the alignment problem!LOL). Cheers,
Aaron
