Re: AMC modifying

[farna@xxxxxxx]

There has to be room in the AMC hobby for both restored and modified cars, with modification including alternate power sources. Modifyers will hardly ever turn their noses up at a 100% restored car, but many restorers will turn their heads when faced with a beautiful car that has another engine in the bay. It's two sides of the hobby -- restored and modified. I prefer to keep AMC power when possible and practical, but it just isn't always so. In the end it's the owners personal choice, and this IS still a free country! I like to see well done cars, no matter the make and mix of heritage. I'm not a purist by any means, but I'm still an AMC historian and supporter. I love to see restored cars, and hope more people preserve them, but there is still room in the hobby for modified cars. Shutting that section out of the main hobby will ultimitely hurt more than it helps. Most will have more than one vehicle, and be more encouraged to keep "the next one" all AMC if they are accepte!
 d into the fold and encouraged to do so rather than push out. 

Consider a stroker EFI six for that 78 AMX six. Plenty power, easy and relatively cheap to drop in. Even a stock 4.0L would be a lot more power than it came with! And it would be a lot cheaper than building an aluminum head EFI 360. 


On August 21, 2005 a1977amx@xxxxxxx wrote:

> 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 !
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>  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.


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