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New age hot rod
So the roots of hot rodding in my opinion starts by getting a really light car or truck shoving the biggest motor you can into it. Now mine may not be a T-bucket, a muscle car, or a little 30's coupe, but this is what I've got. I took an old 1991 Eagle Talon (same car as a Plymouth laser or mitsubishi eclipse) that I owned in highschool, and decided I wanted to convert it to rear wheel drive. (I was still stationed in the states at the time so I had the ability to work on it some)
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So I gutted the car and pulled the motor to start.
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Ran into the previous owners electrical mistakes
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Getting the motor out
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interesting. please keep posting pics.
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Well I was up for new orders and I got a big surprise and instead of staying stateside, I got sent to japan. So before I left I decided I wanted the car up and running when I came home. After a couple weeks of searching for a shop that was up to the task and didn't laugh and hang up on me, I found powerhouse hot rods a shop not too far from my hometown. So off went my car and off I went to japan.
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Up on a frame table it went and a custom chassis started being fabled up
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Looks like Great progress and I believe your right a hot rod is what ever you make it and an engine change is the right place to start.
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Mind the rust! I'm from the north haha
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I like what you're doing here.......
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Who wouldn't love it? A full frame, rear drive Eagle with uber-power? Very cool.
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Looks great. Very, very nice work.
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Times 10! This thing will be Bad_ ss! Thanks for all the pics too.
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I too admire what you are doing to your light weight rocket ship, it will be a real sleeper and have people guessing what the hell it is what sort of engine it has under the hood. I bet you are looking forward to scaring the shit out of some rice racer at the lights. Is it going to be manual gog box or the slush box ?
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Thanks everyone!
It'll be a good sleeper, really the only thing that will be un-factory are the 11" tires going on the back. It'll have a T56 magnum behind it, also I am putting a FAST 102mm intake manifold and TB on it. I'll probably put stiffer springs in the heads as well to try raising my RPMs a little bit. The motor already has the GM performance cam.
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This is a hot rod, pure and simple! I always like the unique projects. Nice work so far!