Re: AMC modifying

["Jim Blair" <carnuck@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

A: Actually, AMC DID have an overdrive for the 6 cyl (several times) and the 
later AMX could be had with a 6 cyl and T5.


From: <a1977amx@xxxxxxx>
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Subject: AMC modifying
Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2005 3:03:21 -0400
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I am currently building the New Mexico Crusher alert 72 Javelin 5.7 Hemi G 
machine. According to some on this list, I would have to find a correct 304 
and auto trans for this car to replace the 460 Ford engine and C6 trans that 
were in the car when I got it. I would have to spend about $20 grand finding 
all the correct parts to replace all the missing and damaged parts a $500 
junk yard comes with. Then I would have a car probably worth about $5000 
when I finished "restoring it". No thanks. I would rather spend the $20 
grand of my own hard earned money making the car better then it ever was 
before and driving the wheels off it without worrying about breaking 30 year 
old parts and not being able to find replacements while on a road trip. I do 
have an AMC powered 77 AMX and I am in negotiations to aquire a 78 6 
cylinder AMX that may eventually get the spare AMC 360 I now have. I want a 
car that has fuel injection and overdrive for long trips to car shows and 
AMC did not make ei!
 ther. For the price of the aluminum Edlebrock heads and fuel injection, I 
purchased a complete 2004 Hemi donar truck. I will consider these 
aftermarket, non AMC parts for my next project, but that still does not make 
it a true AMC motor anymore, does it? What is the difference between me 
putting a later Dodge engine in a car that Chrysler now owns the right to 
the name, and putting an AMC 401 in a Rambler or Nash. It is exactly the 
same thing.