C3 Lower control arm removal
Melting Slicks
Joined: Dec 2001
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From: Reno NV
St. Jude Donor '08
Originally Posted by Durango_boy
A buddy of mine was gonna put a 350 in a his little Samurai hard top. It has a divorced transfer case so the TH350 trans would bolt right up to the driveline no prob. I think he's gotten rid of that plan, but now wants to put an old Beetle body on his Tracker frame. I just don't get him sometimes.
Drifting
Joined: Aug 2005
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From: Hamilton NJ
Originally Posted by Durango_boy
HOLD ON. You're putting a SBC in a Spitfire? That'll be interesting.
No...no...say it isn't sooooo....aaahhhhhh
So, my older brother buys and drives home a running Spitfire from my girlfirends father for $100 (reluctant sale) in ~1979. His hot-rod buddy talked him into milling the heads and putting a JC Whitney straight header on to it. Reassembled, they cranked it up and blew the pushrods right through the top of the head because the rods were too long after the milling...what a scene. Total bliss for 10 seconds, then total despondency as the realization set in...
Cut to the salvage yard with same Hot-Rod buddy. New tactic is to drop in a small block instead of fixing the triumph motor. Crippled Spitfire engine in the back of a Chevy station wagon. The yard master grudgingly sells them a beat 283 SB from an Impala for ~$200 + the Spitfire engine (which I'm sure he sold for a huge profit). Home comes the 283 on the back of a pick-up. In literal shade tree fashion, a come- along is attached to the strongest bough and the 283 is lifted from the truck. In rolls the carcass of the Spitfire...down goes the 283...UP GOES THE REAR! There it sits with it a$$ up in the air, I kid you not, for more than 3 years before dad pays to get it hauled off.
Brother went on to become a high end mechanic (Jags and such) but he'll never live that one down. I guess the only vindication was the $100 shell of a Porsche 912 he bought from a friends dad that he parted out for much $$ (although I expect he had visions of dropping in a BB)...
And I still want a TR8...
Enjoy, Steve
OK...back to suspension...
Last edited by Wuttin; Oct 11, 2006 at 01:52 PM.
Team Owner
Joined: Aug 2006
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From: Columbia Missouri
Wuttin - Great story. That pic of a toy car creeps me out a little. It looks like one I used to play with as a child, and a neighbor gorl I played with choked on it and she went to the hospital. I never got the car back...
