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Re: [GMCnet] Parts coach [message #140437 is a reply to message #140359] Mon, 22 August 2011 10:25 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
jhbridges is currently offline  jhbridges   United States
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I am mineded of the Chev smallblock we stuffed in a Heny J when I was a kid.  We had the engine and trans out of a wreck, and saw in Hot Rod or one of the mags, that was the way to make a drag car.  So we stuck that motha in there.  No idea of torque, power, anything.  And no reinforcement anyplace.  The kid who was driving (It was his Pop's shop and welder so he got the privlege) Goosed it up and dumped the clutch.  And the thing twisted about 15 degrees, one door flew open, the other one jammed solid., and the whole frame was warped.  Someone's Pop had a pickup which needed a motor so we stuffed it in there and sold the Henry J back to the salvage yatrd.  At a 25 dollar loss.
 
--johnny

--- On Mon, 8/22/11, Billy Massey <bdub@wtconnect.com> wrote:


From: Billy Massey <bdub@wtconnect.com>
Subject: Re: [GMCnet] Parts coach
To: gmclist@temp.gmcnet.org
Date: Monday, August 22, 2011, 2:54 AM


V8 Vega?  No problem for Jim Wagner.
http://www.gmcmhphotos.com/photos/showgallery.php?cat=3043

bdub



-----Original Message-----
From: On Behalf Of Johnny Bridges

... snip ...

If you stuff an iron 350 in a Vega, I wanna watch.  From a distance :)  Can
you really weld enough steel into one to make it stay reasonably unbent and
in one piece with that kind of torque applied?


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