Re: 4cyl. AMC 's - The New Gold Standard -

[farna@xxxxxxx]

Well, my 63 American project (which I'll eventually start, maybe in the next couple years anyway!) will be four cylinder powered. Unfortunately it won't be AMC though. I just bought a used Mercur XR4ti with a turbo 2.3L Ford engine, five speed, and IRS. All will be transferred to the American. I had originally planned on finding a Jeep 2.5L and using a remote mount turbo, but got the entire XR4ti at to good a deal to pass up. Don't know what five speed was used in those. I had always thought they were front drive until I saw this one! Interior is pretty tore up, but mechanically it's sound. $250 for the fully intact car was just to good to pass up! "Was running when parked". Even if the engine needs freshening up (it isn't locked up) it's a good deal! I just hope there aren't to many problems with the EFI. 


On March 28, 2005 andrew hay wrote:

> also cjs, eagles, some '84-6 xjs, and the few 2wd amcs that got 150s
> had t5 trannies - amc ones, as opposed to the gm-style that s-10s had.
> 
> " From: fljab@xxxxxxxxxxx
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> " On March 25, 2005 Tom Jennings wrote:
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> "
> " > The AMC 2.5L with a bunch of boost sounds like it would be small,
> " > light and very fast.
> " >
> " > (I bet one would fit fine in the early Americans too.)
> "
> " That's been thought of here before, and I think it warrents another look.
> " I'm sure a boosted 2.5 would go great in an American.  What I don't know is
> " what kind of transmissions will fit behind that engine?  Does it have the
> " same bellhousing pattern as a six, thereby letting you put a good variety of
> " stronger transmissions after it?
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