What car would you buy?
Apr 24th 2017, 10:50 am
#166
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Re: What car would you buy?
I have a large garage back home that I use for the various bits and bobs of cars and motorbikes I have gathered up over the years. I find working on them a therapy of sorts, though after a protracted bit of spannering I don't go near it again for a while 
One of the projects gathering dust now until the end of the year is a 1950's chevy truck that is hald way through having a lexus 4.3L v6 being wedged into it. The donor and recipient may die in the transplant operation.
One of the projects gathering dust now until the end of the year is a 1950's chevy truck that is hald way through having a lexus 4.3L v6 being wedged into it. The donor and recipient may die in the transplant operation.
Apr 24th 2017, 12:20 pm
#167
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Re: What car would you buy?
Once up and running, I am going to see what is possible with ridiculous engine modifications
Apr 24th 2017, 2:22 pm
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Re: What car would you buy?
Nice. If you like home builds still check it out. There's one where he started with a little Suzuki 4x4 and an Alfa 3.6 V6 lump (I think). Since then he's pretty much redesigned and rebuilt the chassis, axles and hubs from a G Wagon or a Patrol (can't remember), fully re-designed 3 point suspension (all designed himself in CAD) with the majority of the parts being home fabricated and modified and the engine quite a bit. As I say he's an excellent machinist and engineer, for instance he decided the sump on the Alfa lump was too low hanging so he billet machined himself a new one from an alloy block and then just for shits and giggles anodized all the now custom connectors (in his garage) in an old basin. The work is of a phenomenal quality. Now pretty much all that is left of the Suzuki is a few body panels. It's full on engineering p0rn!
