Re: 304/290/200R4

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Thinking out load here! So bear with me.
One there is a guy on the Forum who did the 200R4 in his AMX or Javelin. Look for that thread to see what all he did. I know his is set up with a manual valve body and he loves it.
If your interested in fuel econmy and price is not a big concern.
EFI may be easiext way to get optimum economy although you can do well with a properly tuned small 4 barrel. I'd suggest aluminum heads,but since they are designed for the larger motors they may actually hurt economy on the small V-8 due to slow flow rates, larger vaves ETC;
 I'd think that for the ease of things I'd probably just go with the 304 and not worry about the crank issue. 
 If your thinking economy what about LPG???  :] your building from scratch here. You can't do much better then a cutom built for LPG rig. High compression is needed, but not much else is different.
 If you put it in the wagon you can get a fairly larg tank in there by reworking the trunk floor to use the storage area. It does have a storage area?
 
Mark Price
mpriceAtwestco.net
Morgantown, WV
69 AMC rambler, 4.0L, EFI, 5 speed 
65 Ambassador Conv, 327 AUTO, Basketcase
01 S-10 CREWCRAP 4X4



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From: fljab@xxxxxxxxxxx
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Date:  Thu, 05 May 2005 07:57:41 -0400

>With all the gas availability issues, I've been thinking down the road on setting up a small AMC V8 for gas mileage.  I have access to a SS Monte Carlo 200R4 that's in pretty good shape for free from my Cheby friend here in town (sure wish he was into AMC's - he's got a ton of parts!) and am looking for how to set it up behind the AMC V8.
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>I know that for the 304, it's no big deal, just need either a factory adaptor, or the Advance Adaptors one with the correct flexplate.
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>I'm curious about setting up a 290.  I know we've talked here on the list in the past, including recently, about how to modify an earlier crank for a later trans.  Would that same setup work, with the above adaptor, for putting the 200R4 on the back of the earlier AMC V8's?
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>I have 2 possible candidates for this conversion, a '65 440 American, and my '67 Rebel 770 Station Wagon.  Both 290's and especially 304's pop up with regularity.  I'm thinking low RPM, Hi torque, free flowing motor, possibly with either a small 4V carb, or TBI conversion.  Gear ratio's would need to be considered and optimized as well to make this get the results I'm wanting.
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>Ideas?
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>Jim Boone
>Mims, FL
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