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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)


    IMG_17708576008436 by Nikon_315, on Flickr

    So I gutted the car and pulled the motor to start.


    IMG_17715834658897 by Nikon_315, on Flickrr

    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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    Then finally it was on the ground and they started fabricating the interior tins


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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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    More pictures (everybody loves pictures). Again, like most hot rodders changing up body parts with other/newer models isn't out of the ordinary so I put a newer front end on it.


    IMG_20529309784115 by Nikon_315, on Flickr


    IMG_20542108200371 by Nikon_315, on Flickr


    IMG_20548302627624 by Nikon_315, on Flickr


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    IMG_20575824769887 by Nikon_315, on Flickr

    And that brings everything up to date from the past 2.5-3 years

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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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    love the work so far.
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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!
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