Re: [AMC-List] Brought home a Vigilante over the weekend...

["Jim Blair" <carnuck@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

The water pump isn't too hard to come by out here. Pretty similar design to 
Mopar big block.


From: Frank Swygert <farna@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [AMC-List] Brought home a Vigilante over the
weekend...
To: amcrelay@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Message-ID:
There's only two things "wrong" with an AMC 327 (or any GEN-1
V-8):

1. No speed parts. The only thing you can easily do is improve
the
exhaust system and air filter. The factory 4V intake takes a
Holley
carb, so a carb upgrade is pretty easy, and the stock units are
only
like 450 or so cfm -- a 600 cfm would be nice! Later AMC
aluminum
intakes can be adapted, but adapter paltes have to be made. It's
not to
hard to have a stock cam reground either, but that's about it
for easy
-- if you consider changing a cam "easy".

2. When the water pump goes out on a trail, you'd better have a
spare!
They are still obtainable, but you're going to be stuck a few
days,
maybe even a week, while one is ordered. Same for other hard
parts. The
only things you can walk into any auto parts store and get are
tune-up
parts, belts, and hoses -- provided you don't mind using
universal
hoses.

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