1957 Chevy with a mopar heartbeat

[polara71]

Pulled this from Moparts, what a neat story


http://bangshift.com/blog/gasser-ba...-air-dgas-426-max-wedge-mopar-power-epic.html

 

[Fratzog]

I'm not a big fan of interracial marriages but that is cool.

 

[Zymurgy]

Pretty cool. I have a friend with a 426 that has been sitting in his garage for as long as I have known him. I would love to get my hands on that engine, if I asked he would sell it to me I'm sure, but that's a whole other project.

 

[70NPORT]

that certainly is different, putting a hemi in a shoebox and racing it.

 

[commando1]

In the 60's, early hemis went into everything. No make was safe.
Now it's all these turnkey Summit crate SBC's that are delivered to your doorstep nice and shiny. You add on an Edelbrock chrome air filter housing and you tell everyone at Dairy Queen Saturday night 'yep, built it myself....'

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[1978 NYB]

It's unique. But I personally would of found a Mopar to put the 426 wedge in. Just my 2 cents.

 

[commando1]

I've got half a mind to put my 440 in a Porsche
Just to say F U...

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[polara71]

I agree, I dont like the mopar/chevy mix BUT the car itself is a time machine, to me thats interesting.
Unusual to see a mopar in a chevy, its always the other way around

 

[polara71]

You do know what blue pills are, right? Why do you keep bringing those up?
Everything on this board leads elsewhere

 

[70NPORT]

Unusual to see a mopar in a chevy, its always the other way around

I HATE seeing that.

 

[1978 NYB]

I HATE seeing that.

x2............

 

[70NPORT]

Jeezus,.....I thought being able to get it up for 4 hrs was good thing.

 

[bluefury361]

Unusual to see a mopar in a chevy, its always the other way around[/QUOTE]

Heres a pic of a 55 Nomad I saw at the Turkey Run.......

 

[1978 NYB]

Nice! But I would rather see it in a C-Body.......a 78 NY'er to be precise.

 

[bluefury361]

Nice! But I would rather see it in a C-Body.......a 78 NY'er to be precise.

It's just refreshing to see the tables turned after seeing SBC engines mindlessly stuffed into every so called street rod and golf cart you run up on.
A little "out of the box" thinking for a change.

 

[cm23uoc]

I've got half a mind to put my 440 in a Porsche
Just to say F U...

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I think that was already done in the US in the 70s or 80s, it was in a 911 and the intake stuck out of a partially cut out back window, not sure what brand the engine was. It's somewhere in my mags, but I'm not sure if I'd live long enough to find it.
They run a 56 T-bird with a Hemi in Euro-drag racing. They're even situated in my hometown.

The other way round, they put in a lot of 4 bangers in the 70s in US cars over here after the original engines died and gas prices were way up.

 

[fc7_plumcrazy]

show us some pics Klaus

 

[cm23uoc]

http://www.redlinemotors.de/fileadm...uge_dragracing/ford_thunderbird/jpg/index.php

There are two pics of the T-bird shell. Don't ask me about race class details etc., not my world.

 

[fc7_plumcrazy]

sorry, I meant old american iron which got a 4 cylinder engine installed

 

[cm23uoc]

That was in the 7os, you if you read the old used car ads in the German car mags you saw this oftenly mentioned, these were usually export cars that were sold new here and they should all be gone today. Often 1.9 liter 4cyl. or 2.6 liter Opel engines.
You find these altered to small cid engines, even Diesel still now in Cuba with the US cars that were left there after the revolution.